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12-13-2012, 10:10 AM | #1 | |
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FA20 Engine Wins Ward's 10 Best Engines of 2013
Is there an award for the car that has won the most awards?
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I guess reliability has no influence.
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and in the comments people are already talking crap about it being on the list. people love to hate on our cars
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How can an engine that tosses Check Wallet Lights and has a Camel shaped torque curve win awards for anything?
I am not saying it is a terrible engine, but I can't think of anything that it does that I could brag about? Power, power delivery, fuel consumption, smoothness...all under the "Meh" category as far as I can tell. Reliability? Too early to tell; guess we will ave to start the clock ticking if the CELs ever stop going on. |
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Show us another 100hp/liter engine in production for $25K.
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The RSX-S and Civic Si (before they went to the 2.4 liter) but those had less low end torque. Good point, I think we tend to forget how impressive that is.
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37 mpg highway isn't something to laugh at either ... Especially in a 200 hp engine you can have fun with
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[QUOTE=NOHOME;606366]How can an engine that tosses Check Wallet Lights and has a Camel shaped torque curve win awards for anything?
QUOTE] Dromedary or Bactrian?
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Issues with a first gen engine? Unheard of! Fwiw it's not that bad at all for a launch. I'm about 4k post CEL with no issues. Other than the CEL, idle dip and loud fuel pumps aren't major issues (ie new Ford Fusion engine fires).
2 Liters and 200 Hp, plenty of torque, dual injectors, high compression, high revving (thanks to 86*86mm pistons), great fuel mileage, and i'm sure's tons more. Sure we all want more power but for what it is, it is a very well engineered engine. That's mainly a design issue (camel torque). Whether you like it or not, it allows both commuters and spirited drivers/racers have their tabletop torque. For an NA engine, it's pretty great to have all that torque in such ranges.
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For a 2.0 liter engine, it's really smooth for what it could have been.
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yes, the engine has its faults, but you forget what they said about the test:
"Editors scored each engine based on power, technology, observed fuel economy and noise, vibration and harshness characteristics. There is no instrumented testing." This really isn't an objective test of the engine. It's more a subjective test of the car and at the end they were only asked to comment about the engine. If the car as a whole made the editors feel good while driving it, then of course they are more likely to look past any faults it has in any particular area. I feel if you look a any individual part of this car, your opinion would be "meh" at best. The beautiful thing about this car is when you bolt all of those "meh" parts together you get |
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I will say, the FA20 is quite torquey down low for a NA 2.0L making 200 hp. I've also been getting much better gas mileage than expected, and it's a fairly smooth engine. So I can see why it would make the list.
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Been waiting for 2.5 months for a new ECU. It's so hot you can't get parts to make the engine run properly.
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Wow 37 MPG? Do you drive it in reverse?
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