well after yesterdays short morning trip, and getting some info, well ok, huge amounts of info
well will share all that info, well 1st off the current or at least for me, Courier 4X4 is based on the Mazda B-series/proceed
knew it was a Mazda based 4X4, just did not know the full story!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Proceed
well found it, or at least part of it!!
and with that goes why the Ford 3.4 V6 is what it is!!
when Ford was busy developing the 3.4 one of the limiting factors was what the gearbox manufactures and Mazda were wiling to take a chance on!!
Ford SA had a choice of 3 different cams that could of gone into production for the 3.4, and Ford SA chose the worst one due to the gearbox manufactures having concerns with reliability issues with higher torque and hp out put!!
so again the 3.4 is very under powered in stock form!!
something that I plan to sort out very soon
further have found out that the Valves are sodium cooled, not yet sure if thats good or bad!!
one says good, and one says problem!! need to admit, dont know much about that topic!!
then on that history thing, there is something else out there