[Iceotron]

"The 2005 Mercury Montego houses a proven and fuel-efficient Duratec 30 V-6 engine that is refined for smoother, quieter operation and mated to an all-new, continuously variable transmission or a premium six-speed automatic transmission."

Anyone know if this is the same duratec as the Mazda 6 or as in the Taurus?

 

[99CouGSweetRide]

better yet, who's ready to drop one in the cougar? heh

Mike

 

[ov3n]

its just the 200hp plain-jane 3.0 duratec thats in the escape and taurus

 

[bzcat]

until the 3.5 Duratec is ready.

 

[overfiend]

im so swapping trannys...

 

[Iceotron]

this 3.5 you speak of. Is it just a bored over 3.0 that we can swap in? Or is it the 3.5 there was an article about a while back that we can't use?

 

[ov3n]

its a completely different design. it wont be a simple swap

 

[FrostyCat]

Other than being in-swapable the 3.5 is for their RWD applications. So the engine isn't transmounted like in the cougars...unless you wanna swap some drivetrains while your at it?

 

[Fern]

Who ever said that the 3.5L won't be available on a FWD platform?

 

[ov3n]

it will be..
the prototype they showed off was configured for rwd.. doesn't mean at all that itll be an rwd-only engine.
it will definitely be going into the ford five hundred and freestyle, both of which are fwd/awd.