P. A. Schilke
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- Phil
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Hi,Some changes seem harder for the market to accept than others. I don't know much about commercial vehicles or engines, but I don't remember everyone being quite as up in arms over the change from, say, carburetion to fuel injection as we're seeing with the shift to turbocharging. Probably that was because it didn't come with a big change in engine configuration (# of cylinders, displacement, etc.). In vehicles larger than sub-compacts, the 4-cylinder engine still suffers from the stigma of being the base engine that isn't very good and that no one wants, because for decades, that's kind of what it was, and it looks like it might take a while to change that :/ .
I had a Merkur XR4TI with a 2.3L Turbo...Water cooled at this and it only lasted 30, 000 miles...terrible results for a Turbo, gave Turbos a bad rep as they did not last. Newer turbos have addressed the problem, but the stigma still persists, just like the Olds 350 Cid Diesel that killed the USA for diesels for a long time.
best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired
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