"Keen "to replace V6 with inline Gas engines
I have been reading how European manufacturers are now urgently wanting to dump V6 engines. One Automotive commentator said they " were a mistake" .Jaguars new Diesel and Gas engines will be inline si...
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Hammerhead wrote:
My 1975 AMC Hornet had a 232 cubic inch straight six that could burn rubber when I wanted to.
My Buick 3.8 V6 can burn rubber even when I don't want to...and it's all due to the inherently superior volumetric efficiency of a V series engine, over that of an inline engine. You see it's all got to do with the ram effect of the shorter distance the air fuel mixture has to travel to the cylinders in a v series, as opposed to an inline engine.
When I'm out there burning rubber...I find that both tires spin an equal amount and that's because each side of my Buick's V series cylinder banks, are putting out equal power. It's all scientific.
But I do sometimes wonder if I ported and polished, just one cylinder head and put larger intake/exhaust valves in that one head, but left the other head stock....if I would develop more power from that one side of the engine....and then experienced more wheelspin from the side where the one head had been souped up ?
Inquiring minds need to know.
Les ;)
