anyone else thing Ford is biting off Honda?
 

i mean Honda makes a VTEC engine in 89 and then about 10 yars later Ford makes the ZETEC engine. vee-tek and zee-tek
and VTEC stands for something. WTF does ZETEC stand for? "zariable engine technology enside car"
???

Re:anyone else thing Ford is biting off Honda?
 

ztec is nothing.A friend of mine has a Focus and it means nothing.There is no solenoid,no higher lift,not one thing close to vtec.Im pretty shure "Ecotec" and "vortec" is just the same....a marketing ploy to fool people.

Re:anyone else thing Ford is biting off Honda?
 

double overhead cam

Re:anyone else thing Ford is biting off Honda?
 

That is not a hondas trade mark.Some of the first enginnes ever made were "dohc" v6,v8s.Honda just has a way of making that combo(dohc+vtec) work.

Re:anyone else thing Ford is biting off Honda?
 

i was at the auto show and a lot of car manf. are stealing the vent style out of the rsx

Re:anyone else thing Ford is biting off Honda?
 

Toyota also makes VVT-i which is like vtec.
I heard somewhere that the first company to make a system (like vtec) was actually BMW.

Stan

Re:anyone else thing Ford is biting off Honda?
 

Who "successfully" made it? haha.

It's no secret that for years the domestic guys talked trash and laughed at what we're doing. It got big enough to call it a new market, and now thier all trying to jump on the bandwagon. I guess its just business, but I'd rather have import races than "sport compact" ones.
I feel Random coming in about now to throw out some Dodge numbers......lol :D

Re:anyone else thing Ford is biting off Honda?
 

well the vortec checys are called that because of the swirled intake manifold

Re:anyone else thing Ford is biting off Honda?
 

Vtec will hopefully turn into what some of the newer cars are using now where the cams dont just spring a lobe to change the profile but how they are electronically controlled by throttle position to give the best power. Now thats the wave of the future.

Re:anyone else thing Ford is biting off Honda?
 

yeah, there are alot of ___-tec engines out there.
the toyota or mitsubishi engines with variable valve timing are cool, but i have read lancer ads where they are like "Mitsubishi engineers figured out how to increase the engine's performance by using 2, not 1, cam profile." - or something close to that. ---- they just had to take the valve cover off a Honda or Acura VTEC engine and copy that ----.
but i just saw a Ford Focus ad and the announcer says "It has a 'zee-tec' engine" and that is very close to 'vee-tec' so non-car people will remember 'vee-tec' being a good thing and hear 'zee-tec' and think "I gotta get THAT car!"
ha