Ford Fusion Nascar Engine, 2013 Ford Fusion Nascar Sprint Cup Pace Car Going To Lucky Fan

The ford fusion nascar is a nascar stock car by ford featured in the nascar expansion for forza motorsport 6 and as standard in forza motorsport 7.

Ford edge storage. Jeff huneycutt writer courtesy roush yates engines photographer. In car video from the 358ci nascar cup engine powered tms 2008 mustang on the track duration. 2016 ford 2 team penske alliance truck parts fusion 2016 ford 2.

In 2012 ford recalled about 90000 2013 ford escape and fusion in the us. The foundation of the nascar approved spec engine is a production gm ls2 block 60l 4000 with ls2 cnc ported heads. Ford fusion on 22s nascar engine swap roushyates fr9 street racing bugatti veyron soon.

The mandatory car of. Its components come from many of the best aftermarket companies including. Even within chevrolet there will be significant difference between an.

Aero and downforce packages. Nascar rules also limit teams to using the blocks cylinders and intake manifolds from the castings of approved manufacturers. And canada with 16 liter engines that may overheat and cause fires after 13 reports of fire were reported to ford.

See all 16 photos. Nascar places strict limits for instance on how engine cylinders are bored that is how theyre made larger by removing material. On april 17 2018 ford announced that the mustang gt will replace the fusion in the 2019 season.

An all new ford nascar engine for 2009. This was the manufacturers first coupe based entry since the ford thunderbird was retired from nascar in 1998. Hours after carl edwards took the checkered flag at the season ending ford 400 ford racing engineer david simon and roush yates engines employees were already back at work on a major project.

Code named fr9 its the first purpose built nascar racing engine to ever come out of ford motor company. They all use the same displacement bore stroke and bellhousing. The engine for example must be a carbureted v 8 with an iron block.

Sprint cup engines as of 2014 come from one of five manufacturers. 1 variants 2 performance 3 statistics 4 conversions 5 gallery 6 references for forza motorsport 6 the ford fusion nascar comes in four identical variants with differing liveries. The engines differ significantly in their exact architecture of the intake manifolds block heads and cam.

In 2017 ford recalled 2013 2014 ford fusion with 16 ecoboost engines because of a risk of engine fires caused by a lack of coolant circulation. Nascar race engines arms race ford and dodge up the ante in nascar with two new clean sheet race engines.