US engine sizes are just insane!

Freefaller said:
I'd have a 5.4L V8 here if I could find it in a car I'd want. :D

I love big V8 engines :cool:

Wish we had bigger roads her for big american muscle cars :(
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Ditto! :D


Freefaller said:
Who cares if it's not quick, just listen to the sound!!!
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Zip said:
There are Plenty of V8s down here.

But they more often then not sound like crap. Sound old rattly and like they are having a hell of a time getting up to revs then they start to sound like an Asthmatic after they do rev high:p

There are good ones which are great but you do get very very horrible ones.:(
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European V8s tend to have flat plane cranks and sound like a pair of inline fours. US V8s tend to have crossplane cranks and have the nice v8 burble. :D
 
and don't foget it's easy and cheap to get them high strung.
And the torque :eek: and for most of the rev range. Not just at 8000rpm.
Then there's the noise. Baked been cans even with vtech do not sound good.
 
MadMossy said:
A far larger portion of cars in the US large engines in excess of 5l. Even something as simple as compairing the US van to ours they have almost twice the engine displacement than we do, but ours are significantly more efficient.
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And have significantly less power...hardly a fair comparison is it.
 
Kappa said:
big engines like in trucks and suv's over there have a big flat torque curve for towing. Its not all about peak power/torque.
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Exactly, as I said in my first post. Comparing the economy of a European equivalent of this van, which would inevitably have a diesel engine with maybe 130-150bhp against a 5.4L V8 petrol developing 300bhp is just silly. Might as well criticise the VXR Monaro for being thirstier than a 1.8 Mondeo.
 
Tomsk said:
European V8s tend to have flat plane cranks and sound like a pair of inline fours. US V8s tend to have crossplane cranks and have the nice v8 burble. :D
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I know the difference between a crossplane and flatplane in the way they sound.

I was talking about crossplane crank V8s though:)
 
I was just being silly because he had a typo. Obviously I failed in the humour stakes, though if you can't go from knowing what baise means to baised then that's your problem.

(Yes, offended by your comment)
 
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osc89er said:
I was just being silly because he had a typo. Obviously I failed in the humour stakes, though if you can't go from knowing what baise means to baised then that's your problem.

(Yes, offended by your comment)
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But why be a pedant then fail to post something of worth in the thread whilst also simotaniously failing at being funny?

Quite frankley if you have nothing in context to add to the discussion and even when you do type can't be funny then "thats your problem".
 
The imagination that people drive around using fuel with the knock resistance of diesel isn't true. I filled today and was given the choice of 87, 91 and 93 AKI - 92, 95 and 98 respectively, in UK RON terms. It's near enough as good as the UK at the top end, but admittedly the bottom end, the most popular choice, is worse. Sure if you go out in to the sticks it can get even worse, but most people aren't using that kind of gas. You'll need 87 AKI for most vehicles, and more and more nowadays require 91 AKI.

In terms of performance, they are getting better. Look at the Cadillac CTS 3.6 DI - 87 hp per litre. The Ford Taurus SHO - a turbocharged 3.5 producing 370hp, 106 hp per litre. That's a 4% advantage over the BMW x35i engine, though 3 years behind.
 
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