Precise location of the direct-injection pocket is crucial for EcoBoost pistons, and Mahle ensures that all of its tolerances are even tighter than those found on the stock pistons.

If you own an EcoBoost Ford with a 2.0- or 2.3-liter engine, you know the temptation to turn up the boost is always there. However, if you really want to push the envelope, you are going to need to upgrade the engine internals. Thankfully, MAHLE Motorsports offers a rugged set of slugs for Ford’s turbo four-bangers.

“Ford’s 2.3-liter EcoBoost engine can, when modified with MAHLE Motorsports’ PowerPak+ Piston Kit, generate horsepower levels in the range of even the most powerful V8s,” Trey McFarland, Sales/Marketing Manager for MAHLE Motorsports, said. “These new internal engine components are world-class items for those who want to leave nothing to chance. Insist on MAHLE’s 2.3-liter PowerPak+ Piston Kit when building your V8 killer.”

The 2.0 EcoBoost is no slouch either, and MAHLE has both covered with pistons featuring light, rugged slipper skirt forgings, steel pins, and a steel nitride ring set. Naturally the pistons also wear the company’s proprietary Grafal skirt coating to reduce friction and slow wear, plus the top ring grooves are hard anodized to withstand that extra cylinder pressure when you turn up the boost.

“This 2618 alloy will handle just about anything,” Craig Lancaster at MAHLE told us. “That’s a racer’s alloy. It will handle just about anything.”

So, if you need that sort of durability from your four-cylinder EcoBoost engine, MAHLE offers three part numbers for the 2.0 and two part numbers for the 2.3.