So I was looking under the hood today after filling up the washer fluid and replacing the windshield wipers (OE Motorcraft ones of course)
The HPFP is driven off the exhaust camshaft, and I was curious what was under the little foam cover over it so I took it off. Now most of the things on my focus I see with a "Made in..." stamped on it says Mexico. I was surprised to see it says Made in Japan on it (pic)
I did a little googling and it turns out the one who makes HPFP for Ford is actually Hitachi. I'd guess this is why we haven't really heard of any failures of the HPFP on most GDI engines, if they make most of them. Seems like another area that Hitachi excels at in reliability. The DI on the focus tops out around 2200PSI iirc.
Just thought it was interesting, and I was certainly glad that it didn't say Made in Mexico on it.
The HPFP is driven off the exhaust camshaft, and I was curious what was under the little foam cover over it so I took it off. Now most of the things on my focus I see with a "Made in..." stamped on it says Mexico. I was surprised to see it says Made in Japan on it (pic)
I did a little googling and it turns out the one who makes HPFP for Ford is actually Hitachi. I'd guess this is why we haven't really heard of any failures of the HPFP on most GDI engines, if they make most of them. Seems like another area that Hitachi excels at in reliability. The DI on the focus tops out around 2200PSI iirc.
Just thought it was interesting, and I was certainly glad that it didn't say Made in Mexico on it.
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