Ford Essex V6 engine (Canadian)

The Canadian Essex V6 is a 90 degree V6 engine family built by Ford Motor Company at the Essex Engine Plant in Windsor, Ontario, and it is unrelated to Ford's British Essex V6. Introduced in 1982 as a 3.8 litre option on the Ford Granada, the family grew to include a supercharged 3.8 litre engine for the Thunderbird Super Coupe and Cougar XR-7, a 4.2 litre engine that replaced the Ford 300 straight six in the F-150, and a 3.9 litre version. It is an overhead valve engine with a single cam in the block and two valves per cylinder. Ford began designing it in 1977 to be lightweight, fuel efficient and reliable, and a redesign traded the planned aluminium block for cast iron while keeping aluminium heads; it was still the lightest V6 of any displacement built in North America to that time. The 1996 Split Port Induction system raised peak power of the 3.8 litre by 33 percent. The engine was last used in the 2008 regular-cab F-150, succeeded by a version of the Ford Cyclone engine, and an industrial version stayed available until 2015.