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every time I see that pic I cringe looks all those lines omg “ I was out in the middle of nowhere and the blue wire came off and it wouldn’t start”
What do you mean you can’t tell the engine is straight. The picture clearly shows, It’s plain as day ?
Those gave me a headache. I'm surprised they fit.Cadillac is the first one that came to my mind but here's a few others.
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/8-cars-with-front-mounted-transverse-v8-engines/
Yes, my 12 year old last year attempted to cause a reaction from my wife and I by saying she was transverse with a girl classmate but we just said okay cool be happy. I think she was disappointed lol.Are you asking if your bronco is gonna be straight or a transverstite? If you believe in it, it’ll grow up to be whatever it wants to be, and that’s Okay. Every bronco is special in its own way.
I love the Inline six in my 1974 Chevy C10, but the V-6 (3.0L) in my 1995 Taurus is just as easy to work on. Yes, its mounted sideways as it is front wheel drive.Well horizontally opposed is fun also, but also a maintenance nightmare. So yes
When I say Horizontally opposed I mean a flat 6 or Boxster not the mountingI love the Inline six in my 1974 Chevy C10, but the V-6 (3.0L) in my 1995 Taurus is just as easy to work on. Yes, its mounted sideways as it is front wheel drive.
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My wife's Fusion Sport has this engine, and the way that I can tell that it's mounted normally is by the location of the oil filter housing (plastic hex head bolt with a cross on the inner portion of the head)
What do you mean you can’t tell the engine is straight. The picture clearly shows, It’s plain as day ?
No, but I'm trying to determine where the OCC (oil catch can) will sit. It appears most of the interference for spark plug replacement is in the form of vacuum hoses.....It's about serviceability, especially sparkplug accessibility. Just checked - The FJ Cruiser has front axle/differential and not a transaxle. So, straight mount on FJ makes sense.
Find any hint of sparkplug accessibility without major parts removal first.
Wait... did you just say the 2.7 in the Fusion Sport isn't transverse...?My wife's Fusion Sport has this engine, and the way that I can tell that it's mounted normally is by the location of the oil filter housing (plastic hex head bolt with a cross on the inner portion of the head)
You forgot the goofiest of the goofballs, the Toronado. Based on a borrowed RWD platform chassis from the Riviera, Massive 455ci/7.5L V8 engine mounted longitudinally, and FWD. But wait, it gets better, in it's third generation, the Toronado was available with the messed up 350ci/5.7L olds diesel that was a converted gas engine which became notorious for catastrophic engine failures.Fun facts:
Lots of FWD cars have been designed to have their drivetrain mounted longitudinally, rather than transversely. Examples include: Chrysler's LH cars of the 1990s/00s (Dodge Intrepid, Chrysler Concorde, etc, I unfortunately owned a 1996 Concorde LXi, horrible pile of trash considering it was a one-owner, dealer-maintained example with low mileage).
Subarus before AWD became standard across the board save for the BRZ (I owned a 1980s FWD Subaru that you'd swear was RWD at first glance under the hood, engine mounted weird and it's a boxer style too, very different from a same-year Honda Civic).
First generation Toyota Tercel (I owned a 1983 SR-5 4wd Tercel wagon that I hated), they used the rear axle from the RWD Corolla to make the FWD Tercrel 4wd/awd. It worked because the engine was mounted longitudinally already, with the transaxle underneath it to drive the front wheels, so they basically added a transfer case to that. It had to be shifted into 4wd, or it was supposed to be, mine jumped in it randomly which caused the vehicle to become uncontrollable at higher speeds when it decided to do that. That crap was the last straw and I dumped it. I was told by a junkyard guy that the issue was relatively common).
Most any Audi, if not all of them. And many are AWD (Quattro).
1990s VW Fox (as it was known here), based on an old Audi platform.
Also, there are MANY FWD V-8 cars. Almost all 1980s-90s Cadillacs, except I think the Fleetwood and Catera. Other GM V-8/FWD cars were even less reliable, speaking of the 5.3L equipped W bodies. Reliability NIGHTMARE.