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Remanufactured Ford 1.9L L4 Engine - EXP, Escort; Mercury Lynx
1.9L · L4 · Part DFA9
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4-year no-fault nationwide warranty — includedOn gas engines in non-commercial use, at no extra charge. The builder’s standard cover is 3 years, parts only. Every gas engine we sell includes the 4-year no-fault warranty with labour, at no extra charge.
- “No fault” means we do not investigate why it failed — if a covered engine fails inside the term, it is covered.
- Labour is paid up to CAD $95.00 per hour — a cap on the rate, not a flat payout — and only for the remove-and-replace hours in the Mitchell labour guide. Diagnostic time is covered up to 2 hours, and fluids up to CAD $200.00. Towing and a rental car are not covered. Anything not listed here needs to be agreed with us before the work starts.
- The 4 years start the day the engine is installed, and a claim needs proof that a professional shop installed it.
- Unlimited kilometres, and no deductible.
- Call us before any warranty work starts, so we can authorise it. Labour paid on a repair we were not asked about first is not covered.
- A claim starts with a call to us. We file it with the manufacturer, and the manufacturer pays it.
Diesel engines, and engines put into commercial service, are not covered by this 4-year warranty — the terms vary by engine, so call us for the terms on the unit you’re pricing.
Fits
- Ford EXP, Escort 1987–1990 · 1.9L L4
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4-year warranty included
Refundable core
Ships Canada-wide
Engine guide
Ford CVH 1.9L Four
Also known as: CVH, Compound Valve-angle Hemispherical, 1.9 CVH, Escort 1.9
Overview & history
CVH stands for Compound Valve-angle Hemispherical, a description of the cylinder head design: the valves are inclined in two planes within a shallow hemispherical chamber, which was intended to improve combustion and flow over a conventional wedge head. Ford developed the engine on both sides of the Atlantic and launched it in 1981 for the front-drive Escort — the first of Ford's new world-car small cars — replacing the old Kent pushrod engines. In North America the 1.9-litre version became the definitive CVH, powering the Escort, the Mercury Lynx and the EXP coupe through the second half of the 1980s and into the 1990s. It was never a powerful engine, making around 88-110 horsepower depending on year and fuel system, but it was compact, light and inexpensive. Ford eventually developed the split-port SPI head for the same basic engine, extending its life into the early 2000s.
Specs & engineering
- •Cast-iron block with an aluminum single-overhead-cam cylinder head, two valves per cylinder.
- •Compound valve angle — valves are inclined in two planes in a shallow hemispherical combustion chamber.
- •Belt-driven single overhead camshaft.
- •Displacement in this catalog is 1.9L; the family also included 1.6 and 1.8-litre versions in other markets.
- •Fueling moved from carburetors to central fuel injection and then to multi-port injection over the engine's life.
- •Output ran roughly 88-110 hp depending on year and induction system.
Generations & variants
- •Carbureted and CFI era (1986-1990): Escort, Lynx and EXP.
- •Multi-port injection (1991-1996): the later Escort and Tracer, with improved output and driveability.
- •The same basic engine later received the split-port (SPI) head, becoming the 2.0L SPI four.
Vehicles it powered
- •Ford Escort (1986-1996)
- •Mercury Lynx (1986-1987)
- •Ford EXP (1986-1988)
- •Mercury Tracer (1991-1996)
Did you know?
- ★The CVH name is an engineering description, not a marketing one — it literally describes the compound valve angle of the cylinder head.
- ★The CVH architecture had a very long life at Ford: it launched in 1981 and, via the split-port SPI development, was still being built for the Focus in the early 2000s.
Sources: [1]