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10-04-2012, 08:31 PM
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http://www.sae.org/mags/AEI/10714
Now, can we get all this new whizz-bang DiVCT, Direct Injection Turbocharged low-friction widgetry applied to the Coyote. Scratch that. The Ecoboosthas got a cast iron block. Can we get this applied to the I6 then. Pretty please? Why cast iron? Their specific design allowed them to build the block with weight 'competitive' with aluminium, but they gained significant advantages in terms of warm-up and friction-reduction. And here we were saying the I6 is dead because it's cast iron. Instead, it looks like it's now the way of the future again! I know. Lukeyson
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10-04-2012, 08:39 PM
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Lukeyson
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I noticed it is a long-stroke engine too.....uncanny the ongoing resemblances....
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10-04-2012, 09:32 PM
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Peter Car
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Making the block out of alloy might have only saved 1 or 2 kg based on the size of the thing, as well as cost more.
I'd love to see how small the pistons are. |
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10-04-2012, 11:03 PM
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Thailand Specials
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Its going to be funny when these become standard in things like the entry level Fiesta, then a Victorian P plater gets fined $1100 and cops 3 points because mr Highway Patrol is having a bad day.
Driving a "high powered vehicle" because its petrol forced induction  .It will be blanket banned unless Ford cuts a deal with VicRoads, it will get through exemption, but thats up to the person doing the exemptions at VicRoads, considering I know a person who got knocked back on a VW TSI engine. It will also be interesting to see what these things can do with cold air intake, intercooler, exhaust and a tune. |
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11-04-2012, 10:45 AM
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and that's how it is
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Anyone that's running a blanket rule on charged engines is going to have to change it to something else, because in the next 5 years everyone is going to be selling cars standard with these small displacement turbocharged engines.
Switch to power-to-weight or something, it just makes more sense.
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11-04-2012, 10:57 AM
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A block as big as an A4 piece of paper, 120 degree crankshaft, 97kg all up, which means a couple of guys can pick the thing up. Imagine it in a beach buggy.
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I'd love to fantasise about the I6 sticking around and being used as a premium engine for ford globally. But one has to be realistic. That's not going to happen.
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