Originally posted by RogerB: We know they tested a de-stroked 2.0L Duratec, I believe for the BTCC but found it wanting.
Correction - they RACED a 2L duratec V6 - it was BTCC max displacment that spawned that bugger. And "found it wanting"????? - yeah - sure
In the early racing series, they tried taking a 2.5L and destroking it to 2.0, and yes it was because of the rules limitations. They tried a few different head configurations but could not get enough hp out of it as a 2.0 to be competitive. They ended up using another rule about "corporate family" to put a Mazda powerplant under the hood, with which they had greater success. I'm not sure if this carried over to the later BTCC seasons, or not, or if the 2.0L Duratec of which you speak might have happened later, if at all. At any rate, I have the technical article that they wrote about their little experiment, or at least I used to have it as a pdf, and it was posted on CEG a long time back. I'll see if I can find it in the archives.
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