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Road & Track: Top 10 Coolest looking engines (Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ made top 10!)
Just browsing their website and was surprised our twins made the top 10 coolest looking engines made today! Pretty cool to be considered on this list that is mainly composed of super cars such as the GTR, Aventador, Regera, Ferrari, Bugatti....etc.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-car...oking-engines/ :w00t::cheers::burnrubber: only wished they would have used a picture from the current manual transmission MY17+ with the red manifold however.... |
"Easy to access everything" - hmmm - except the spark plugs? -;)
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Coolest? I say bullshit!
Mediocre at best. Lame ass opinion piece on a motor sport magazine. Just my to cents. |
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what other car has a better engine bay per dollar value? Considering most modern engine bays are littered with plastic covers and wiring, the 86's bay is quite nice in comparison.. |
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Your google-fu is weak. |
This what happens when other cars get the entire engine bay covered with basically a plastic hood under the real hood. For example the new Supra
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..and your comprehension-fu is weak, that list would be completely different if it included past cars. The list only includes new cars. |
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I agree! At least they could have used better photos showing just the engine. Instead, over half are of the engine bay with most of the goodness covered by plastic. No, that article is a giant FAIL! |
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two* cents And Coolest looking not performing :lol: there lame reasoning was easy access to everything. As for performance when it came out its still pretty good 100 hp per liter and decent mpg and high compression put it high on wards 10 best engines in the year it came out though. |
I was reading lately about the difficulty to minimize the height of the engine and the different components. The target was to place the engine as lower and back to the driver as possible. Normally, on a mass produced engine the specification accuracy of a component can be in the range of 0.1mm. So, a component of 10mm is OK to be 10.1mm. This was changed on the particular engine to something like 10.00001mm. Additionally, the minimum spacing between parts was changed to just 2mm. So, it wasn't that easy to achieve the following:
https://car.watch.impress.co.jp/img/...026/907/38.jpg Source: https://car.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1026907.html |
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As humfrz said "spark plugs". |
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I hear you humfrz ol' chap. I prefer mine original. http://image.superchevy.com/f/101862...history%2b.jpg |
Apparently that writer thinks that hiding engines under plastic covers makes them look cool. There are much cooler-looking engines out there.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZmd7k33JWE[/ame] |
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Here are some of the greatest-looking engines you can buy right now FA20 Certainly isn't amazing looking, but it's refreshing to open the engine bay and actually see the engine rather than plastic BS. |
I don't know. I've seen many engine swaps in our cars and they look like garbage. Same for many supercharger or turbo setups. Not to mention the nonsense of putting extra weight on the top of the engine (e.g., with positive displacement superchargers), when the manufacturer tried hard to place the engine so low in the car. In general, it is very difficult to do work in the engine bay and look like OEM.
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I love the FA20 engine and how easy it is to modify/work on it and how good it performs now. I think it deserves to be in that list. Not my two cents, thousands of dollars on engine mods, countless hours of work, and thousands of miles with those mods ;)
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I think the '17+ FA20 looks pretty cool with the new manifold. If we are going purely off aesthetics.
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I have had a couple cars that I thought the engine looked cool. S2000, Acura legend coupe, Ford SHO (Yamaha engine)
https://www.ft86club.com/forums/pict...ictureid=10333 https://i.imgflip.com/2fp4au.jpgvia Imgflip Meme Generator https://i.imgflip.com/2fp4d0.jpgvia Imgflip Meme Generator |
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I think Vortech nailed it https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...g?v=1490829679 |
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1. The filter mount is supposed to also act as the divider between the clean and dirty sides of the airbox. Unfortunately, the seal quickly falls apart allowing LOTS of dirty air through. The first time I saw one, I was shocked to see the condition of the leading edge of the compressor blades. 2. The bellows/boot that joins the airbox to the compressor is unbelievably lame. The business side of the hose clamp included with the kit interferes with the folded pattern of the boot. Actually scrubs against it. 3. The pipe just upstream of the throttle body rubs against the alternator bracket. On the other hand, I agree that they nailed it both aesthetically, and I hope with their wet sump planetary gearbox. I don't know how well they hold up long term but I want the design to be as stout as it looks. Gorgeous. |
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My fav's
BRM H16 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...H16_engine.jpg Buick Turbo V6 (Grand National, GNX) https://cdn1.mecum.com/auctions/fl01...?1479489494000 |
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Debbie Downer, eh...:D Thanks for the heads up, Ultra. This is the first I've heard of these issues except #3 and heard that it was fixed. |
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https://jacksonracing.com/jr-media/u...yFRSLowres.jpg |
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WOW! I'd almost forgot about that OHV horizontally-opposed, six-cylinder engine.
:thumbsup: humfrz |
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The number with all the zeroes is probably a joke about the designers’ passion and attention to detail. |
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Fixed! :D https://chasebays.files.wordpress.co...ot-no-cb-1.jpg |
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