Right. It's supposed to produce 145 horsepower, but it's connected to a very slow, old-fashioned automatic gearbox. So I don't really know.
It feels kind of slow for a car which should produce 145 horsepower as well, but if you push the pedal through the floor and the...
gearbox finally decides to change down, you can get it to redline. I'd be happy with 138 or 139 horsepower. However, I've been here...
before with an atmospheric Ford. That had a 1.6-litre engine and it outperformed itself by 20 percent.
It produces an additional 19 horsepower. - How much torque did it produce before?
It should have 145 Nm of torque. - Well, it produces 160 Nm, so it's doing very well.
This might surprise me as well.
Get it up to 7.000 RPM, it was just there. - Don't bother, it'll flatten immediately.
Crap. - You're down 11 horsepower!
Right Ghisbert, I hoped to get 139 horsepower, but we're very much below that. Is that because of the automatic gearbox?
Unfortunately, it isn't. You'd compensate that by rolling out on the dyno. The engine is just done.
So the Duratec is done? - It is.
Well, I'm a little bit disappointed as you might've noticed. - I can actually. It's a big loss for you.
For a 2.0-litre it's not that good. - Shall we stop talking now? It's getting too negative now.
You're getting me all negative as well. - I can tell, you're really feeling sorry for me.
It all looks pretty good, right? The cover is still very clean and DuraTec proudly shines on the engine.
It have a very special hood with gas springs, but it underperforms the indicated power output. And I'm really disappointed.
I hoped for 138 horsepower, but it's a lot less. This was the second junker on the dyno, and tomorrow we'll see how Frank's Laguna will hold up.
A 1.8-litre 8-valve engine from the previous century producing 95 horsepower. I'd feel very stupid if that beats me.