[shibashaba]

My mom has a 97 taurus gl. She says it's not the base engine, but it doesen't have the 24valve plaques on it which makes me wonder. And is the vulcan engine a pushrod, I think I read somewhere it was ohv. Can you tell by looking in the engine compartment?

 

[Guest]

engine identification

to my knowledge, all GL's had the vulcan, but to be sure, open it up, if it says Duratec on the Plenum/Intake Manifold then that's what it is. if the intake manifold is all curvy and looks small then it's a vulcan, the duratec one is larger and is more squared off. I could also find out for you if you give me the VIN.

 

[shibashaba]

It's the vulcan engine, didn't say duratec anywhere, and they looked just like you said it would. She kept swearing it was the inbetween engine. At least it's not a 3.8