Whats your favorite Engine?

[daveb91]

Whats your favorite engine and why? Racing, stock, modified, crate, custom whatever.......

Mine top fuel blown V8.
http://images.motortrend.com/features/consumer/112_0502_numbers05_z.jpg
500 cubic inches, 7500 hp ,45.5psi of boost,and eating 77 gallons a minute.

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullsh*t. For those 5 seconds or less, I'm free.

[Jay]

DZ302
Rips quick, revs high, and has plenty of power. It's like a 2 stroke.
Plus they have a unique sound.. and look awesome w/the x-ram intake

[C_Note]

I'm sure I'll get laughed at, but I think my 'favorite' engine is the GM 3800... It's just so smooth, decent response, a little power when it's called for, and decent fuel economy. It's just a wonderful balance.

[daveb91]

http://www.powerblocktv.com/crate/images/12499469-3.jpg
3800 nice motor served GM forever loved it before the balance shafts and when it had a turbo on it in the GNs and that bad TA.

[daveb91]

http://mmbrokers.com/newcars/69whitez/z28%20rich%20080.jpg

DZ302 another great GM engine built for the Trans Am series awesome rod/stroke ratio. High revs (for the day) one of the best 1st gen GM small block motors. Good choice Jay. Anyone else??

[kmfdmk]

Mine is the 2JZ-GTE. You can go to YouTube and find videos of one running so smoothly that a coin can be placed on edge on the cam tower cover with the engine running and NOT fall off.

[youtube:yfxu35vc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihygmMAEnf0[/youtube:yfxu35vc]

Not to mention it was over-engineered from the drawing board, and with simple BPU & bolt ons can produce an easy 400 to 600hp DD.

[RallyEX]

For reliability: Toyota 22R(E), Ford 300ci Inline Six and (al)most all things Honda

For power, it's a tossup. A lot of good, powerful engines out there these days with lots of potential.

May seem odd, but sound really has a lot to do with the fun of cars... Love the sound of the Aston Martin 6 litre V12 in the current DB9 and the scream of the 5.7 litre V10 in the Porsche Carrera GT

[Davis Silver Sti]

V-10 Formula 1 engine.
850-900hp @ 19,000 rpm

I'll never forget hearing the scream of a F1 engine at Indy in 2000. Purely amazing.

http://galleries.media24.com/Wheels24/1939/09.jpg

[daveb91]

Ah I was wondering when the F1 engines would come in. I am more impressed by the 80's very small displacement turbo F1 engines.....

[Racerx300zx]

VG30DETT

Solid build off of a proven platform, the VG series continues to beat down even the current VQ series, just a beautiful piece of work that can post some nice big numbers with a little work. Gas mileage isn't too kind, but, who cares?

[Jay]

DZ302 another great GM engine built for the Trans Am series awesome rod/stroke ratio. High revs (for the day) one of the best 1st gen GM small block motors. Good choice Jay. Anyone else??

Actually high revs even by todays standard. With the cross ram (2x4) intake which was a dealer intalled option power peaked at 7600rpm at just under 480hp. This is well below the advertised hp rating of 290. I have a book here with the original GM dyno sheet scans, sketch sheets, prototype info ect.

http://www.camaro-untoldsecrets.com/images/gif/crossr5.gif

[C_Note]

Another favorite engine of mine is the 1600cc. A good platform for lots of options.

http://epage.com/web/AC/00/01/64/59/81/picture.jpg

[Jay]

It's a v8.. it doesnt appear to be iron.. and it's def not an LS1.. tho there's a 1 in the name.
Enough torque to turn a 69 Camaro into one dangerous machine.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h251/jayxsoprano/copo.jpg

[daveb91]

Easy I want one and its a ZL1

[Jay]

Car & Driver I think it was? test drove a ZL1 equipped 69' Copo Carmao and tho I dont recall the exact words it went something like "The car is like driving on a sheet of ice."

The ZL1 by far exceeded the hp/tq limitations that suspension and mainly tires which were available in that era could handle.