Ford Unleashes Its New V8 Engine
The Sun Herald
Saturday September 26, 1992
FORD'S long-awaited redesign of the V8 engine has been unveiled in the USA with a mass of metallurgy, valves and camshafts that are a world away from the old pushrod thumper.
So advanced is this aluminium-block V8 that the name "Romeo" seems destined to join Cleveland and Windsor in Ford folklore.
It seems certain this new 4.6-litre V8 will find its way to Australia as a replacement for the current Mustang-based engine used in the Falcon, Fairlane and LTD. Maybe as early as 1994.
The October issue of Wheels magazine lists the Romeo engine specification as a 32-valve quad-camshaft producing 209kw and 389Nm in standard, out-of-the-box trim.
That's more than the current much-modified V8 engines produced by Holden Special Vehicles and Tickford.
The first vehicle to carry the engine will be Lincoln's new Mark VIII.
© 1992 The Sun Herald
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