Crate motor question....

So I'm reading about this new tiny turbo diesel Ford:

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/07/24/2014-ford-fiesta-sfe-test-drive/?intcmp=features

and I'm wondering what the chances are of Ford offering them? Thoughts on price?

I wouldn't bet on it. It's not a diesel either.

Yeah, not a diesel engine. This was discussed a couple weeks ago. It would be a good candidate to swap into my Mini. Here are some of the threads about the engine: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/new-fiesta-get-the-16l-or-wait-for-10l-ecoboost/81710/page1/

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/fiesta-10-ecoboost-makes-146whp-stock/77773/page1/

http://classicmotorsports.net/forum/grm/mazda-2-vs-fiesta-10-ecoboost/83090/page1/

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/fiesta-10l-ecoboost/73232/page1/

Who knows if it will be available as a crate engine. My guess is no, based on low demand, but eventually there will be 1.0L Fiestas in junkyards.

Ford will never offer these through FRPP. They were originally going to carry the 2.0L Ti-VCT engine from the 2012+ Focus, but dropped that idea and went straight to the Ecoboost 2.0T (and 3.5TT) instead. Moar powah is the name of the crate engine game. Economical swaps are done on economical budgets the vast majority of the time, which is more appropriate to salvage yard engines once it's been around for a few years. The only way it would probably happen, is if they approved it for Formula F as a Pinto engine replacement or something.

the smart-ass comment is that ford will offer them as crate engines but the crate can be seen as the rest of the fiesta, and the price would be whatever you can negotiate with your ford dealer of choice.

Ford will likely sell more fiesta crate engines this way that any FRPP crate engines.

Sorry, smack me and continue with the conversation.

It'll probably be available as a crate from your friendly Ford dealer as a replacement part - but don't expect a matching engine management system.

The probable Ford crate engine market would only be their V8 engines. I don't think that they even want to sell their ecoboost V6 engines like that.

They do sell their 2.0 Ecoboost as a crate for swaps, along with a matching engine management setup.

Driven5 wrote: Ford will never offer these through FRPP. They were originally going to carry the 2.0L Ti-VCT engine from the 2012+ Focus, but dropped that idea and went straight to the Ecoboost 2.0T (and 3.5TT) instead. Moar powah is the name of the crate engine game. Economical swaps are done on economical budgets the vast majority of the time, which is more appropriate to salvage yard engines once it's been around for a few years. The only way it would probably happen, is if they approved it for Formula F as a Pinto engine replacement or something.

GM offers a whole bunch of pretty mundane production engines as "crate engines" in the Chevy Performance Parts catalog. but they only sell the wiring harness and ecm for the LS engines- which covers everything from a boring 300hp 5.3 out of a pickup all the way up to the 650HP supercharged LS9 Corvette engine..

In reply to novaderrik:

If by "Mundane" you mean still-a-V8? Sure. But no crate engine shows up in the 2014 GM Performance catalog with less than 8 cylinders and 290HP.

they used to have a couple of the Ecotec 4 cylinders- the Cobalt supercharged engine being one of them- and a couple of V6 engines in both 60 and 90 degree layouts, but they took them out this year.

novaderrik wrote: they used to have a couple of the Ecotec 4 cylinders- the Cobalt supercharged engine being one of them- and a couple of V6 engines in both 60 and 90 degree layouts, but they took them out this year.

Yeah, at my old job we had one of the Ecotec turbo crate motors in a Cavalier. That car never ran right again--not saying it was GM's fault, but it managed to make a Cavalier worse.