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Ford Motor Company has developed a new 3.5L V6 engine. The engine, called the Duratec35, represents a new architecture for Ford Motor Co. that will eventually power one in five Ford vehicles. The goals of the engine design were high output, fuel efficient, low emissions, and excellent NVH. This paper will describe the NVH process for the development of the engine, the NVH features included in the design, and the final results relative to the benchmarks.

An engine's radiated noise level is a very important attribute required for delivering customer satisfaction. Having an accurate radiated noise prediction capability during the planning, target setting, and initial design phases is critical to making the up-front decisions that enable the timely and cost efficient delivery of an engine that meets its radiated noise goals. This paper describes a simple radiated noise model that is based on a combination of regression modeling and simplified analytical modeling. The regression model uses measured data from multiple tests that can be broken down to noise sources such as mechanical, combustion, and accessory components. The simple analytical models are used to determine the parameters that the decomposed noise data is regressed against. The model developed in the paper is then compared to previous models suggested in the literature and to measured data from engines.