Son of a Ford engineer - actually. My father built the EECIV's, among other things.Got it today, thanks Dean!
Sidenote: My conspiracy minded friend thinks Dean is a Ford engineer who realized he could make a ton of money
I believe it, I know how much those printers can run! Thanks for your service to the community. God Bless!Son of a Ford engineer - actually. My father built the EECIV's, among other things.
Trust me - there is not a ton of money in Ranger ignition trim rings. But I'm happy I can cover the fee to help sponsor this website and provide something to help make Ranger owners more pleased with their vehicles.
HI Dean,Son of a Ford engineer - actually. My father built the EECIV's, among other things.
Trust me - there is not a ton of money in Ranger ignition trim rings. But I'm happy I can cover the fee to help sponsor this website and provide something to help make Ranger owners more pleased with their vehicles.
Hi Dean,Phil -
My father retired in 93'. He worked at the Landsdale, PA plant. But before that he was with Philco.
He has a lot of good stories..but two stories come to mind regarding the EECIV...
At one time I can remember him explaining the benefits of engine controls with regard to emissions and he said that on some bad smog days in Los Angeles, EECIV equipped cars actually had cleaner air coming out of the tail pipes than what they were sucking in the air filter. Young people today scream about global warming. They have no idea how bad the pollution was in certain places back in the 70's & early 80's
The other thing I remember was him mentioning that it wasn't long after the ECCIV was established that the powertrain folks started showing up at the meetings wondering if they could get the EECIV to start controlling the automatic transmissions. As we all know the autos trans at the time were all based on the "fluid logic" of the valve bodies and these complicated and expensive components are now pretty much gone.