I wish the fiestas had more timing chain engine options

Yeah, about that EcoBoost engine lol

Pretty much all of them are at risk for head warpage prior to 50k miles

The cylinders have a "water cooled jacket", so they're only attached to the rest of the head at the bottom end

New Focuses aren't too reliable

The automatics at least

I wouldn't buy an ecoboost

Didn't they fix the warping issue after the first few years?

I don't like the idea of less than 4 cylinders in a car

I know the next gen 3.5 has a different head design

@LordCaledus It's an inherent flaw in the construction of the head. They'd have to drop the whole concept of a water jacket

isn't the sr20 a water jacket engine?

Strange. I know the 1.0T is unreliable

But I've heard nothing but good stuff about the post-2015 3.5, 2.3, and 2.0

I meant the block my bad haha

Yeah I can see that being an issue in a boosted motor

Unless you make the cylinders out of like Titanium or some shit

I'unno, they must have changed something

I rarely hear about problems with post-2015 ecoboosts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE8ptqDnwvc

Wot is rain? you bogans!

I've heard that a lot of hospitals have some pretty dark terms for motorcyclists in the rain; rolling donations and such

which reminds me I really need to get my back tyre switched off my old wheel

https://carnewschina.com/2018/07/19/the-tri-axle-motorcycle-dump-trucks-of-china/

Buy one of these instead

that would be very useless to me

it does look surprisingly well made/sturdy though

I'd use it as an overlanding rig for real. Now to find where I can get one stateside...

Or I could just graft a mini-truck frame onto a motorcycle.

Eh. Just build one.

Slap a 2.0TDI in it

That's..... a bit much between the legs.

Put it behind you then

Or under the seat

Idk

No

I mean.

stop

Triumph rockets have 2.3L

They look pretty okay

There's no reason to have more than.... 40hp? on a truck like that

Okay. 2.0SDI then