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really? the tec engine has been in the taurus since 1996 and i have never herd of that problem. i’ve been on taurus car club for 5 years. i’ve been on shoforum for 4 years and nobody has mentioned it there either. infact there is tons of threads about the reliability of the ford engines in the taurus and the only real problem that comes up is IMRC (the intake gets gunked up and the butterflies wont open) problems and the cam failure on the V8 SHO’s
unles your talking about a problem on the fusion i’m unaware of. To my knowlegs the tec has been a very solid engine. many easly exceding 200K and the car is almost always ditched because of tranny failure 
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There are at least two different racing series that are using the Duratec engines without any reliability problems: MX-5 Cup, and Formula Mazda.