Blog readers with a good memory will recall the
arrival of the Lion diesel engine from Ford’s Dagenham Engine Plant – the first
Ford production engine to use compacted graphite iron (CGI) for the cylinder
block material.
Now Ford has repeated
history with the arrival of the first gasoline engine with a CGI block. Ford,
ever resourceful and expansive in its choice of words, uses the word first
liberally. The new 2.7-litre gasoline engine is not the first gasoline engine
with a CGI block, but it might just be the first ‘production’ gasoline engine
with CGI.
