Ford Needs To Offer A Longitudinal Version Of The Eluminator Crate Motor

Not everyone wants a modern vehicle, but the advantages of electric drive make it an increasingly hard thing to ignore. Even for people who want a newer EV, sometimes it’s just nice to enjoy an older car, but without the headaches of maintaining an older car, or the pollution. So, Ford was very smart to offer the Eluminator crate motor and it was even smarter to show us that it could work quite well in a 1978 Ford pickup.

But it took a lot of custom work to get the F100 Eluminator working. With a few relatively minor changes in the Ford Eluminator motor, it could be a LOT easier to install in older Ford vehicles, and maybe not require any fabrication at all.

Ford’s F100 Eluminator Crate Motor

Before I get to the ways Ford could improve the Eluminator for shadetree mechanics, I do want to point out that it’s still very cool. The F100 pickup is an iconic vehicle that might not have been appreciated much in the 1980s and 1990s, but now that it’s a bit over 40 years old, it’s a classic.

Ford gave the F100 a very tasteful resto-mod, too. It didn’t try to make it look like a newer truck, give it ungodly amounts of highly-reflective boomer identification markings (aka chrome), didn’t give it giant wheels, and only gave it a little bit of drop. The paint job was very factory looking (no flames or metallic paints). Ford even gave it wheels that look like steelies. In other words, if you saw the Eluminator going down the street, you might think that it’s just an F100 that someone took really, really good care of or restored.

While they kept things looking classic and even stock, they also gave the truck some modern EV touches. The interior has borrowed elements from the Mustang Mach-E. The steering wheel, digital gauge cluster, center display (with a knob for us Luddites who want tactile response), and other Mach-E controls were all transplanted.

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Source: https://cleantechnica.com/2021/11/12/ford-needs-to-offer-a-longitudinal-version-of-the-eluminator-crate-motor/