What's the greatest stock engine ever made?

The 4.3 is better in pretty much every way possible.

n-not fuel economy...

BEAMS blacktop 3S-GE, anyone?

Yeah it's probably better at that too though they both suck dick. You might as well drive a V8.

My dream engine isn't exactly stock

I probably get 30+ mph with the way I drive. (not city)

Well you drive something with a 3800 so I'm going to assume you're a Grandpa and drive 20 under the limit all the time.

That's not how you conserve gas. You ride smooth using your torque wisely to high speed, then coast, revving to nurse the driveshaft. Sometimes I cruise control, but mostly I like to drift between 5 mph then open it up when it's safe.

thats nice and all but at the end of the day your stuck with a piece of shit 3800

And worst of all it's FWD

At least the 4.3 comes in RWD applications.

a rugged and high powered engine? thanks

Mine is RWD, you fool.

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>rugged and high powered engine?
>3800

simply incorrect
stop memeing faggot the 3800 is a mediocre engine at best

It's not mediocre. It puts out too much power to use for its size. At low RPM.

It's a great engine.

don't you have to fuck your sister in your firebird soon cletus?

don't shitpost 2 late and make her w8

op asked
>What's the greatest stock engine ever made?
and here you are autisticly trying to defend a 3800 as a goat

LMAO this is rich.

regain your composure

When you understand engine technology, you will see that there are only applications. Not one best.

500 big block sadly it's anything but stock at this point.

MFW smaller than a DOHC V6.

ohc where a mistake

Probably obvious but do Big Blocks not meet emissions? only reason i can see not putting one in a Super car. you'd think GM would've put it in a mid-engine vette by now or at least when it could meet emissions out the factory.

Technicly you could meet emissions when you get a EFI and catalytic converters for it.

what chu don't get is that push rods get in the way of port size

>no F20C yet
It has the highest specific output of every naturaly aspirated affordable consumer engine.

ya but what chu don't get is that dohc engines get int the way of everything else

>makes no power till 8,000rpm
Meh

They do?

When it's new... Not after Mandeep or Mohammed get done with it and it winds up with no compression and burns more oil than gas. It also sounds like shit like every Honda 4 cylinder.

>makes decent power over 6250
>makes insane power above 8000

>worthless powerband
>240hp is insane
Lol

personal preferance but seeing as how it saved my life id say the dialasis

>200hp
>insane

The port sieze of a 3;4 or even 5 Valve cylinder head are, when combined, even bigger.

Yet they make less power than the "ancient" 16 valve V8... Really makes you think...

240Ps os much for a engine that small.
If corrected for displacement, these 32 Valve engines make much more power than a 16 Valve V-8.

Indeed, the rev. limiter is set too low, it can take 10.000rpm ad get a decent powerband when the rev limiter is set like that.

>it can take 10.000rpm
r u takumi?

A NA 'Busa engine makes that much while being lighter

What's the point of comparing displacement if the higher displacement engine is physical smaller? Why would you even use a dohc boat anchor?

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They can take these revs, and Takumi revs his 4A-GE even higer at 11.000 and later 12.000rpm before he destroys it at 13.000rpm.
A DOHC engine usually isn´t that much bigger, especialy on inline engines there is pretty much no difference.
Also e DOHC engine needs much less fuel than a OHV of the same power.

Probably the flathead v8. Horsepower is not the greatest but they will run forever and can be rebuilt and repaired easily and cheaply.

The coyote 5.0 is also a very good engine because of how tunable it is and how much potential is still available with the stock parts. 1.39 hp per cubic inch and 1.32 lb ft of torque per cubic inch while meeting emissions standards on pump gas on a production naturally aspirated engine that will run 500k miles is impressive

>250 HP and 400 lbs/ft
>best efficiency of weight range
>best internal thermal management of any road mounted motor

Spark EV was the best kind of beta test. Shame it's gone now, was literally the best hot hatch on the market.

>Lanz Bulldog 10L single cylinder glowhead
It was a low reving diesel like 2-stroke with verry low power, but insane torque.

>TEN LITER 2T SINGLE
>10 inch stroke

Jesus christ, I bet that thing could tow a barn up the side of a barn.

Yea, but it has no power since it doesn´t rev.

Mah nigga. Also,
>same firing order

>engines

Outdated tech

everything else in this thread is objectively wrong

>hit rev limiter
>take 10k miles off life of engine
?

Close but rocker cover not being red was the giveaway to your failure

>turbos aren't a mirrored pair
Gross

>overheats internally

>12:1
Get the foccacia outta here with that nonsense

the dynamic compression can be varied a bit with the cam timing

gotta get dem mpg's nig

Pic related looks quite nice

I'm all for torque, mate. Could tow continents faster than tectonic plates with a 3 speed.

rip a skid khunt

I feel like an LS is a pretty legit stock engine

But also that merc v12?

It's like mercs highest reliability engine.

Volvo B23E

> ~140hp from factory in early 80's
> lumpy cams from factory
> 10.1:1 compression
> Should last at least 500k without any work
> Non interference Valves
> Can T+ off junkyard motors

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Sunbeam 3l

First commercially available dohc engine

ls1.jpg

BMW S54 engines by a wide margin

351 Cleveland

Power for days.

>not posting our lord and saviour this far into an engine thread

wew laddies
>you will never experience 5 of these mofos at full thrust launching you into orbit

This.

We had these in Australia and they were rubbish compared to pic related.

>the FE is better

In what way

Im a Ford fanboy but the LS1 or Slant 6 probably takes th cake

Probably not the "best", but I like the MZR family of engines from Mazda/Ford. I've owned 5 cars with these type of engines, never disappointed.

the push rod sleeves get in the way of the intake path
its why you don't see too many crossflow inline engines

This gave me a throbbing erection

vtec with a few simple mods could probably launch you into orbit faster.

>3 valve
Bad intake:exhaust ratio.
>5 valve
Same as 3, but with more reciprocating inertia
>4 valve
Still less raw flow than a good 2v head, which is all you need for power.

Also, you can still make good 4v pushrod heads that'll go up to 9500 RPM.

Yet those engines are a lot bigger for their displacement.

Pushrod and DOHC make about the same power for their external displacement.

>A DOHC engine usually isn´t that much bigger, especialy on inline engines there is pretty much no difference.
On mobile right now, can anybody show this guy the difference between a 5.0 Windsor and a 5.0 Mod motor? Fyi, you can fit a big block Ford into a late first gen Mustang. Putting a DOHC Modular in that very same engine bay is a pain in the ass. Packaging DOHC V motors is a lot worse than their pushrod equivalent. You're right about inline engines, but those are worse than V's in weight distribution when they're more than 4 cilinders long.

Actually, pushrod engines can get much better MPG because of the easy implementation of VVT, variable displacement and direct injection.

The Voodoo is actually incredibly pathetic when you compare it to any other modern flat plane V8.

>Posting iron boat anchors in an engine thread

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Duratec_V6_engine#6.0_L_V12
not the best but its cool

2v heads don't have better flow for a given bore size, there just aren't any DOHC 4v heads made that have bore sizes larger than 4 inches, and all of those are factory castings which have to meet be both economical and have good low lift flow compared to aftermarket castings targeting the performance/race market.

why, that would be the Mercedes-Benz OM617

Reminder that the best Supra used a 3S-GTE.

>Four Cam

A 503E is not a 3S-GTE