Just seeing if there is any 2011 King Ranch Ecoboost out there....I've seen the 5.0L and Ecoboosts in platinum, FX4 and so on but no King Ranches....anybody know if any have been made yet?

 

Woodhouse in Blair, Nebraska has a few

 

I ordered my KR ecoboost Jan. 6th and still no VIN #. I've almost forgotten that I even ordered a new truck! I bet its May before I get it. Very, Very discouraging.

 

I just ordered mine last week and was told the build dates were sometime in April. Depending on if I got in the early or late April build dealers said could get it end of April to middle of May.
Checked out the Blair Nebraska Ford though and at least its good to see some out there.

 

A V6 in a King Ranch?

 

is that a question or just thinking out loud? Obviously you like the 5.0 instead but I dove both and preferred the Ecoboost.

 

My brother (who is a chevy guy) said the same thing! But then I told him its going to have more power than his 5.3L and could probably out tow his 6.0L work truck and get close to 20mpg! We'll just have to see. I was skeptical at first with a v6 and the turbo gadgetry. I've always been a big v8 guy. I was thinking long and hard between the Ecoboost and the 6.2L.

Its also going to be weird with a quiet v6 engine. My 5.4L that I have has the Roush Off Road exhaust on it and sounds soo mean! Thats the only drawback .

 

Ya the noise wont be as bad a$$ as the V8 but I had noise before and I am done with waking up the neighbours at 2am...or setting off car alarms when you drive by...lol

 

just thought I would say I have finally seen some KR Ecoboosts at some dealers websites now, so maybe things are finally starting to roll of the factory...hopefully

 

Why not? Have you ever heard a turbo charged engine? Pull the silencer rings out of the turbos and remove the cats and have it dump straight into a set of 4x14" magnapacks and you'll have a mean, mean sounding engine

 

AFAIK, only the turbos on Cummins diesels have silencer rings. The turbos on diesel engines are a different animal than the turbos on a gasser.

 

A turbo is a turbo, they're all set up the same, it's just the variance in size and the location of a waste gate. The turbos on the EB truck are built by Borg Warner, and while i have no documentation or have seen one to physically check, I'd be willing to bet they have silencer rings considering how quiet the turbos are for being variable geometry

Granted, if I'm wrong - no cats and glass packs will make a turbo whine just as much as if it didn't have silencer rings on

 

You are wrong on one account. The infamous sound of a diesel spooling up tweaked as you described sounds nothing like an EcoBoost with the same treatment. The Eco sounds like a Farmall A in steroids. In my opinion, yes mine, the Eco just doesn't sound good when uncorked. Browse around here... there are enough videos here to give you the idea.

 

im goin get one sometime i test drove a 5.0 wow there nice trucks now just gotta pay my cc off so i can afford a new truck

 

YouTube the mongo racing ecoboost, the silver one. It's a stock EB with straight pipes and a high flow intake