Hi folks,

Ford commissioned Porsche to design the original Duratec V6 engine. Terry Haines, the owner of Haines Motorsport and ex-Ford Powertrain engineer was kind enough to post some pictures of the Porsche engine installed in a Ford Contour (American Mondeo) prototype on his Internet Gallery. Ford sent Terry Haines to the USA from his native Britain to be chief-coordinator of the North American CDW-27 prototype program. He now runs a shop catering to CDW-27 cars (Contours, Mystiques, and Cougars). It's about 5.5 hours south of where I live.

2.5L and 250 horsepower. Ford made some changes obviously. Check out the original Porsche-designed upper intake manifold.

Terry is a great guy, a very helpful person and, to me, an invaluable resource. If you want to use the pictures somewhere you better get his permission first. Being British, he does have a bit of a temper.

Here's the link to the Image Gallery (the photo of the Posche Duratec might by on pages 2 or 3)
http://fordcontour.org.whost1.atlantic.net/gallery/HainesMS?page=1

If you want to get in touch with Terry Haines, go here:
http://www.fordcontour.org/forums/index.php?s=93694fd0ea2cafe0a0882f002096 4313&showforum=28

yea its true porsche designed the mondeo engine during the st200 times
also the svt contour had the same 2.5 v6 duratec im not sure about the new mondeo..
and i think the sho taurus engine was made by: kawasaki or was it yamaha???
cant remember for the life of me :)

and i think the sho taurus engine was made by: kawasaki or was it yamaha???
cant remember for the life of me :)

It was Yamaha.

The Zetec units were designed by Yamaha, the 1.25, 1.4, 1.6 and 1.7i Units used in the Fiesta, Puma and Focus. The Duratec engine is the one used in the current Mondeo, but rumours suggest that Ford will use Volvo T5 engines for the next Generation car. The Duratec 3.0i, as used in the ST220 is also a Porsche design, just modifed by Ford, used in the Noble cars!