How many different ecoboost turbos are there?

Not sure yet. The 3.5L would be the most popular so far only because of the numbers produced (F150 would be the highest volume so far) and the sizing would be appropriate (1.75L). Not sure if the 2.7 uses the same turbos or not.

The smaller 4cyl I suspect would be different (but don't know).

They're all sourced to Borg Warner (wikipedia shows 2 - K03 based and 1 - KP39 based) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_EcoBoost_engine

I still have some contacts at Ford engineering so I'll drop them a note and see if they can answer. Anyone have any contacts at Borg Warner in SC or staff in Auburn Hills?

Gotta vent a tiny bit.

Tourism is getting close to ridiculous here in Iceland.
Real estate prices have gotten so out of hand that people can barely afford to buy their first property. Every apartment or house has been bought up to be turned into air B&B's or hostels, and has driven the prices up to insane levels. Real estate prices have just barely doubled in the last 5 years
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...bdbc56e28e.png
I personally have seen the price of my apartment go up 80k USD in 2 years since I bought it. And I am afraid that this bubble will burst violently when the flow of tourists will slow down.

But let's talk about the flow, I live 5 minutes from the only international airport in the country and I see people in rental cars driving like they had literally gotten their license through mail school. I see tourists stopping in the middle of the road to take pictures of northern lights with no thought about their surroundings. On the 24.th of December I was driving home after festivities at my parents place and as I go over a blind hill and into a turn down a hill right after that a tourist has parked his car on the icy road in the middle of the turn and was behind it taking pictures, the retard even shut his cars lights off so he could see better. I managed to swerve past him and got out FUMING and told him what a colossal retard he was for parking in a downhill turn, right after a blind hill and turn off his lights on an icy road. And he was just oblivious to the danger he caused.

And now 2 days ago a 18 year old girl was killed on her way to school2 minutes further down that same road when a group of tourists decided to take a U-turn and cut her off. I have lost count of how many times I've seen tourists do stupid things like that on that one road.

There is a beautiful shore close to where the intro of the newest star wars movie was filmed. A few people have died there already and we have numerous close calls on video.
Photos to Die for on Reynisfjara Beach | Iceland Review

And talking about our sights, some of our most beloved sights are being trampled to shit be people that don't respect trails and go off into the moss that takes decades to heal.
For an example these idiots that decided to go to our most valued national park, Þingvellir. The worlds oldest still standing parliament was founded there in 930AC. They decided to camp there, and not only that, dug out moss to use as insulation for their tents
Náttúruspjöll unnin á Þingvöllum - mbl.is

Or idiots that with sheer stubbornness try to get up on glaciers in rental cars, get stuck of course, wander from their cars and are found barely alive or dead after a storm hits. It just seems that people have no common sense and expect the world to be all cuddly and can't comprehend how dangerous situations they get themselves into. And then Forcing others to go into danger to save them. I personally have seen tourists try to pass rivers in Toyta yaris small cars and get stuck.

I just had to vent a bit because we've been surprised be the amount of stupidity we see from tourists and the girl that was killed 2 days ago was kind of the last straw for me.

Hell we get that from the locals here... No need to search for a tourist! Though, I understand your frustration and I guess will convince my wife we need to wait a couple years to visit your country. I understand it's quite beautiful.

When you decide to come I'll be glad to show you around or give you pointers on what to see and experience. But be prepared for everything to be stupid expensive.

Thanks.

Looking back to 2007ish (Edit: 2008ish) wasn't Iceland kind of at the beginnings of the global economic meltdown with regards to your banking industry having loans all over the place? What did they do to preclude that from happening again?

Edit: Holy shit, reading through the Wikipedia narrative the US looks like a small recession in comparison... 90% decline in your stock market??

Supposedly...

We were hit hard. People had been building houses with loans in foreign currency and hoping to sell their old houses to offset the cost, But everyone was building new houses so no one bought the old ones. The banks and loan companies foreclosed on both the homes when the foreign currency loans doubled when the ISK collapsed. The thing about the banks was that people were gutting them from the inside AND that the worlds economy took a hit, making the schemes apparent. But people are idiots and have elected most of the same idiots back in to control, although we now have an upswing in smaller parties getting a bigger share of the pie every 4 years. We do not have as polarized political system as the US.

And we're in that same swing again with the same corrupt bullshit happening again. I'm not taking any loans because I saw people getting burnt. But people seem to stupidly think that "this time we'll just keep swinging up" and they're spending money and taking loans with total confidence in our small currency. When the tourism dwindles you'll see another huge downswing when the housing market has gotten that inflated but the money doesn't flow like it used to. I'm really thinking about selling my apartment soon, getting a type certificate for aircraft, work abroad and collect money for a few years and return when the bubble bursts and I can buy cheap.

Saw this today:

http://www.codrus.com/misc/lightning-plate.jpg

Shot from one of the few cars on the road that turns in worse milage than a Lightning... :)

--Ian

Boss frog bites the dust?
http://www.bossfrog.biz

What's up with all the rules on Facebook buy sell trade pages? Why can't I just sell shit without a random person within the 10 mile vicinity controlling ever word that I post?

Correction: there are 6 moderators for my local buy sell trade. Be careful, if you block any one of them, they'll permaban you.

:rofl: with 1/4 the displacement too

Looks it from his home page.

It's really better to think of a 13b as being a 2.6L. Yes, it displaces 1300cc, but it gets a power pulse every crank stroke instead of every other.

--Ian

Mazda's next-gen SkyActiv engines will drop spark plugs in favor of high compression

Mazda's next-gen SkyActiv engines will drop spark plugs in favor of high compression - Autoblog

Homogeneous charge compression ignition, or HCCI, is the black art of of internal combustion engines that aims to produce diesel-like fuel efficiency for the cost of gasoline. Although some of its competitors have developed and subsequently given up on the tech, Mazda confirmed that the next-generation of SkyActiv engines will employ HCCI technology, improving fuel economy by 30 percent and at the same time reducing exhaust emissions.

According to Nikkei, a new SkyActiv family of engines is set to debut under the hood of the next-gen Mazda3 sometime in 2018 before making its way into other vehicles. In simple terms, an engine that uses HCCI burns the air/fuel mix using pressure instead of with spark plugs, just like a diesel. At 14:1, Mazda's gasoline engines already have some of the highest compression ratios out there, but a move to HCCI means cranking up the compression to 18:1.

While the tech sounds relatively straightforward, using HCCI means dealing with a number of side issues. It's one of those "on paper" ideas that compounds problems when put into practice. Heat, revs, and fuel must all be carefully managed as gasoline doesn't burn the same way as diesel. Mazda is mum on details, but the automaker seems confident that the issues have been sorted. If the new engines do indeed make it to market with HCCI, Mazda will have out-engineered GM, Daimler, and Hyundai, all of which have tried and failed to develop HCCI engines in a cost-effective package.

With the market moving towards electrification, it's interesting to see Mazda still focusing so heavily on traditional internal combustion gasoline engines. It's an indication of where they see the market heading for the next few years. Although the automaker has been hesitant to move forward with hybrid and electric powertrains, Nikkei also reports that Mazda will begin mass production of EVs in 2019.

Double post is a double post.

Anyone else hear about FM now selecting the ME221 as their choice of ecu to use with the new FM2 kits?Do the hydra guys get bent now?

I doubt it; FM's typically all about full user support for original purchasers for everrrrrrrr right?

That moment when you discover one of your closest friends is living a double life. I have suspected it for some time but the truth finally emerges. His SO presented the proof to my wife and I. Pretty much had already pieced everything together. Amazing how close I was to reality.

I expect this will be a huge problem. They are not married but own a large home together. He says he is not leaving and she wants her money back. She dipped into her 401k to provide a down payment for said Mc mansion.

At this point, I dont know if he is aware she is telling close friends. He doesnt text me much anymore and certainly nothing about the current situation. I am not a big fan of drama and I keep my life simple to avoid it.

The problem gets bigger because we all work for the same company, but in different locations. I am lower level management and he is mid level. There is a chance we will work together again. MYOB is my current strategy but I cant help but want to text him, "how is your daughter?"

There are lots of rumors of Hydra going out of business or being close to it for a while now. FM is planning on continuing to support the Hydra for as long as possible as far as I know.

They knew they were loosing market share with the Hydra being so expensive. So they are partnering with ME to bring the ME221 to the US and branding it as the FM221. Bill the owner has a big thing of being the sole provider of whatever ECU's they use in the US. They have done this with the Link, Hydra, and now the ME221.

Not sure if it's 'the ECU of choice now' but it's pretty much the news on the FM web site. Hard to decipher pricing but looks like $995 for the ECU.

https://www.flyinmiata.com/news/index.php?item=64