Ford Zeta engine

The Ford Zeta is a straight-four, double overhead camshaft petrol engine that Ford developed in the late 1980s to replace the Pinto and CVH engines. It was sold as the Zetec, because Lancia owned the Zeta trademark. Production began at the Bridgend plant in Wales in September 1991, with Cologne in Germany added in 1992 and Chihuahua in Mexico in 1993, and the final Zetec was built at Bridgend on 10 December 2004 after more than 3.5 million had been made there. The first engines displaced 1.8 litres and a 2.0 litre version followed quickly, sharing its 84.8 mm bore and 88.0 mm stroke with the two-valve CVH. A popular belief that it is just a 16-valve CVH is a myth, because the blocks are not interchangeable. It powered the Mondeo, Fiesta, Escort, Contour, Cougar, Escape and Focus, and a turbocharged 2.0 litre version badged Duratec-RS went into the European Focus RS.