The engines were first produced in the Ford Romeo Engine Plant, then additional capacity was added in Windsor, Ontario. Modular engines used in Ford trucks were marketed under the Triton name from 1997–2010 while the InTech name was used for a time at Lincoln and Mercury for vehicles equipped with DOHC versions of the engines. The Modular engines are used in various Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury vehicles. The Modular engine family started with the 4.6L in 1990 for the 1991 model year. Implementing shorter production runs without incurring large shutdown and retooling expenses helped to increase the versatility of those production stations that required tooling or machining setups specific to a certain vehicle platform. This also allowed for the existing engine plants, and their supporting offsite production facilities, to handle shorter production runs. Implementing a 'modular approach' allowed for significantly faster changeovers when switching from one engine platform to another among the Modular engine family. Despite popular belief that the Modular engine family received its moniker from the sharing of engine parts across numerous Ford vehicle platforms, in reality, the Modular engine family was named as such by Ford Motor Company for the new 'modular approach' to the setup of tooling and casting stations in the Windsor and Romeo engine manufacturing plants.

The Ford Modular engine is Ford Motor Company's overhead camshaft (OHC) V8 and V10 gasoline-powered small block engine family. Single or Double OHC with Roller finger followersĮaton M-112 roots-type in DOHC and 5.4 SOHC versions

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