2.7L Ecoboost Engine Review by Heavy Duty Mechanic

[masshole]

Found this video this afternoon by what seems like a true gearhead. Likely unsurprising to most of you, but boy I cannot wait for my rig to arrive!

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[Ninjak]

Was a very good video. He spoke about things that I did not know about the 2.7.

I do know with the mods I have, my 2.7 has definitely woken up and performs very well.

 

[Newbie]

 

[BroncocnorB]

Mine too. My two door probably gets to 60 as quickly as an 86-90 fox body mustang GT

 

[BigBlue7]

I skipped through it quick but doubt he mentioned the 2.7 has a wet belt driven variable oil pump that’ll cause sudden catastrophic failure right after warranty is up. Might be easy to change when replacing the clacking phasers and timing chains though

You must be great at parties

 

[Ducati1098]

I skipped through it quick but doubt he mentioned the 2.7 has a wet belt driven variable oil pump that’ll cause sudden catastrophic failure right after warranty is up. Might be easy to change when replacing the clacking phasers and timing chains though

Ford has used the same design for a while now with practically zero issues. Everyone just assumes it’ll fail because it’s in oil when in reality there’s plenty of high mileage ecoboosts out there with the original belt.

 

[MyDogGoldie]

I'm still confused how much oil to put in mine.

 

[MWILD]

Mine too. My two door probably gets to 60 as quickly as an 86-90 fox body mustang GT

Back in the day my old 93 Fox body hatchback with a lot of bolt ons did the 1/8 mile in 9.1

My 2.7L Big Bend Sasquatch loaded up with skids and heavy rock sliders does the 1/8 mile in 9.46 with an S&B air filer and E30. Have more mods incoming, so I should be able to beat that soon

I also let off too soon in this run, so it should be slightly better.

 

[Xjeepowner]

If you don't like the engine, get something else.
Pretty easy decision.
I love my 2.7, it feels like a V8 in fact I was surprised it made the same amount of torque the 5.0 makes but 2000 RPM lower.
Only time will tell how reliable these engines are, so far since 2015 they've done very well.

 

[Herewegoagain]

I'm still confused how much oil to put in mine.

Your supposed to put oil in it ??

 

[Cygnusx1]

I'm still confused how much oil to put in mine.

8.5 quarts. Just like the Japanese manual says. Or is that liters?

 

[omi205]

Have been loving the 2.7. My first real experience with a Ford engine and so far I am liking it. It has just the right amount of power. It sounds good. Not obnoxious. There are some things that do worry me but only time will tell. Some people are out there with 100k miles on this engine with no issues. Others have cam phasers at 10k miles on a brand new. But so far so good. Being optimistic.

 

[Moose Knuckles]

You must be great at parties

 

[TheSquatch]

https://www.thedrive.com/news/self-...eds-to-investigate-1-0-liter-ecoboost-engines

Are you sure you’re in the correct forum? Why are you referencing an article about a completely different engine? I think you are just butthurt that Chevy still hasn’t released a real Blazer ;-)

Troll on ignore list…

 

[2023bronco]

I skipped through it quick but doubt he mentioned the 2.7 has a wet belt driven variable oil pump that’ll cause sudden catastrophic failure right after warranty is up. Might be easy to change when replacing the clacking phasers and timing chains though

Thanks for sending all that data on this issue. Oh, wait....

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