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Old 08-27-2010, 09:06 PM   #11 (permalink)
some_other_dave
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As to why your car drops out of DFCO after a while, there are almost always RPM limits for DFCO. After all, if they left the injectors off all the way down to 0 RPM, you'd have to use the key to start again and that wouldn't be so great.

It is also possible that Ford engineers decided that running in DFCO for more than X amount of time ran some risk they didn't want to run. I'm not sure what sort of risk that could be, though. You should still be pulling a vacuum so the brakes should keep working; with no fuel and no spark you shouldn't be putting a thermal load on the engine (just compression heating which isn't nearly as much as combustion heating); the field coil on the alternator should still be energized so the charging system should still be charging... No, no idea why they'd do that.

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