Has anybody seen this yet?
As much as I love V8s, I'm excited to see more domestic inline 6s!
Has anybody seen this yet?
As much as I love V8s, I'm excited to see more domestic inline 6s!
Interesting.
Is this the one they were working with Mazda on?
I love twin charged inline 6s. Wonder if it would fit in my Datsun?
A little apprehensive on seeing coated aluminum cylinder liners, but I don't see a lot of Nissan GTRs leaving clouds of blue smoke, either.
It's hard to see the block and head from these pictures with all the plumbing and accessories - but if you look at the cam drive, it looks like the engine is slanted to the passenger side. I approve. 
MadScientistMatt said:A little apprehensive on seeing coated aluminum cylinder liners, but I don't see a lot of Nissan GTRs leaving clouds of blue smoke, either.
As long as they get the process to apply the coating right (looking at Jaguar here), and don't screw up the tuning to where it pings like crazy, this is proving to be very good for durability. Can't bore the cylinders out, but they are probably durable enough you wouldn't ever need to.
As the builder of a mighty 225 turbo 24 years ago I approve.
Long live /6s!
I hope the wrangler/gladiator gets it, as the current v6 is a dog.
eastsideTim said:MadScientistMatt said:A little apprehensive on seeing coated aluminum cylinder liners, but I don't see a lot of Nissan GTRs leaving clouds of blue smoke, either.
As long as they get the process to apply the coating right (looking at Jaguar here), and don't screw up the tuning to where it pings like crazy, this is proving to be very good for durability. Can't bore the cylinders out, but they are probably durable enough you wouldn't ever need to.
Audi V8s either smoke like a chimney at 100k or they burn a little oil at 250k and there is little in-between. I have a feeling it depends on if you follow the VWAG oil change intervals or follow a more sensible one.
birdmayne said:I love twin charged inline 6s. Wonder if it would fit in my Datsun?
I saw nothing in there about twincharging, though, and I didn't see any place where there was a supercharger.
I did see that it is built with largely the same tooling as the Chrysler/Mitsubishi/Hyundai 2.0/2.4 engine. (Bore centers are expensive to change, using the same bore spacing as an existing engine makes the new engine a lot cheaper to produce because you can share tooling)
Which is the engine that replaced the Chrysler 2.0/2.4, that was an update of the 2.2/2.5, which was a four cylinder engine built, IIRC, largely from Slant Six dimensions...
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