I-I drove a v8 for the first time in my life today Veeky Forums. I've been driving for near 10 years but the whole time between my own vehicles and my parents they have all been inline 4s and V6s. That effortless power was amazing, I felt like I didn't have to press the accelerator to easily match and pass the flow of traffic. My current car has a turbo 4 cylinder at 18psi and I dont even want to drive it anymore, hold me Veeky Forums
hold me.
V8 thread.
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Sorry you have shit taste
Also suggestions for entry level v8s to get into a work on? Nothing with half of the motor hidden under the firewall please.
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Now you know.
If there's a v6 and a v8, you always buy the v8. The I4 might as well not exist.
Foxbody/early SN95, the ones with the 5.0.
The Church demands you refrain from shitposting during mass.
If you have the money you can get into a C5 Corvette
welcome to the dark side
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I'm here with the V8 Cult as well senpai.
OP if you want to you can get into the good old coyote stangs and LS camaros and Corvettes.
Lots of aftermarket.
I've been really thinking of a c5 recently. Anyone here own one? How decent are they for dailying, I used to have miatas so not much space isn't an issue to me. Are they alright with such wide tires in very rainy weather?
>most available torque per cubic inch
Yeah, Americans really are retarded
>tfw you will never drive, let alone own a V8 because yuropoor
I've seen c5s with well over 100k.
pretty reliable and easy to work on from what it seems.
Can't talk about ownership personally but they last a long time.
Get a c4 much cheaper
The only I6 that doesn't deserve a conjoined twin is the GM Atlas I6.
>Powerful
>Reliable
V8s are king tho
why you talking shit and wasting dubs? Shit has nothing to do with the layout of the engine, just volumetric efficiency
Don't post "top kek" if you want to keep a thread free of shitposters.
Which country is the best for buying V8s? Their a dime a dozen over here in Ausland.
I'd have to say Burgerland just because Australia is split between I6s and V8s, whereas V8s are fucking everywhere in America.
seems like the ass of the world and the US are the best places followed by Europe as a distant second.
They're*
fuck
Except those countries with taxes based on engine displacement.
Germany is probably your best bet in yurop.
V8 powered Aircraft.
Because they're the only country, save for the brits that still make V8s in Europe
>Tfw the only V8 I got to drive was in a late '70s emissions-cucked 4600 lb landyacht so it was fucking slooooooow
From the thumbnail i thought those throttle bodies were the exposed Pistons. And i was about to say they look tiny as fuck, but then I opened the picture, and I'm retarded.
C5 cuck here. Can answer some questions if you want
My 99 pontiac trans am has the same engine and is much cheaper.
That feel when beat a highscooler in his 350z at half throttle
My trans am will do sub 5 sec 0-60 at 174k miles
Are they usually really hard to find manual or is it just my area? Hows the reliability been so far for you?
> Pontiac
It's gone user! Its DEAD! =/
I had driven a V8 before, it was a hemi in an automatic truck that I borrowed. It wasn't until I went to test drive a '14 Mustang GT with 420 hp and a 6 speed manual that I got a real taste of what it was like. I bought the car, and it has actually ruined the love I had for my motorcycle. My small cruiser is not a fast bike by any means, but it was the fastest thing I had ever owned. It feels like a turd now after tasting that sweet sweet V8
Only furthering the 4th gen T/A's status of being a modern classic
I like to treat my V8 like a triumph card, sorta like a last resort type ordeal. An embodiment of the term "it's time to bring out the big guns"
>not crusing in the LS1 all day getting 26 mpg hw and then stomping ricers when they think its a v6
Hijacking this thread to request sleeper v8s/ cars you wouldn't expect to have a v8
Pic related, 4.0L oldsmobile aurora v8
The not-actually-a-Supra also came with a veeate.
*in a very aerodynamic vette with a .5od transmission
In my 4th gen.
4l60e auto trans and 3.23 rear axle
Holy shit look at all the bait in this thread
:(
>inb4 commodore
I want a Pontiac, but i cant find any on socal at a decent price, or that arent rice d out with "sik mawdz"
Most you will see will have the 4l60e. Reliability has been great so far. Granted I've only owned it for 3 months so far but previous car was ls1 Camaro so it's been cheaper on the whole. I bought my c5z knowing a decent amount going in. There's a minor "vette tax" but maintenance is fairly cheap, everything is fairly accessible and I love being able to read codes off the dash on the fly. Other than normal v8 fees
Welcome to the family, family
Old pic of whip. Ended up getting ss spoiler. Full bolt ons, built 4l60e, 3600 stall. Fun as fuck to hoon
SBC, yeah boi. It's a good platform.
>a triumph card
I bought that one five years ago. I was living in southern california and bought it in PA.
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Give me more information on that thing. Is it yours?
forgetting something?
1996-1999 Ford Taurus SHO
>Yamaha built 3.4L DOHC 32 valve V8
Also. The Pontiac Bonneville GXP got a 4.6L Northstar.
The Buick LaCrosse Super got a 5.3L LS4 V8. Fastest Buick built since the GNX.
The Buick LuCerne Super is on the right. That also got a 4.6L Cadillac Northstar V8
355
Weiand 144 10 rib
Comp Cams Xtreme Marine 268 grind. Good little blower cam.
601 heads done over.
Crane roller rockers.
Good fun man but the car its in, not so much. RHD Trans Am with a chassis made of wet noodles. Was fun to build and it was a good project for a few friends to get introduced to the insides of engines (and introduce beer to the insides of ourselves) but I'm really all about my Supra now.
Welcome to the dark side, OP. V8 is love, V8 is life.
I know this feel.If I downshift mine too quick,it backfires due to it's cam timing being advanced.It just rumbles along,rarely take it past 50 unless a ricer at a stoplight revs at me.
>roots blower
nigga, you could have gotten a twin screw or TVS and made more power while keeping intake temps down.
Unmodified foxbodies are weak as fuck nigga.
dumb question since i've never personally owned a v8. I'm assuming that compared to a typical 4 banger sports car, the v8 will cost more to insure? After driving a C63 AMG I just want to be witnessed and ride to valhalla
Source?
what v8 ?
most of the idolised ones are just a fart of torque with no top end
I am very happy with the combo I put together. It gave me access to a huge amount of low end torque with a six speed transmission. I kept the blower cool with water and denatured alcohol through a nitrous spray plate which also seals the gap between the rotor tip and the blower case when things are getting hot up top at high speed.
Coulda should woulda man it was stonking, on to turbo engines for fun now.
feel bad for you breh
>The grapes are sour, guise!
nice assumption
305 to 427 ci v8 is nothing odd
and 488 + in some drag cars
its just boring to me now
lmfao at sub 200 ci v8s and sub 100 ci v16s
even more pointless than rotors
I have 25k was going to get a gti newish. for the money, what can I get with a v8 instead? that's comfortable, smooth and that v8 power
seems like you are just poor m8
or you shell out money for the wrong things. You have to get your priorities straight.
goodbye gearbox
>not installing a T56 with your LS Swap
it's like you're new to this
Gday from Australia, mate
Wait until you try a V12
Sadly they're dying off. Maybe they'll live on as twin turbo 5.XL or smaller engines but weight and fuel consumption and eurocuck law are killing them
>followed by Europe
more like the Middle East, South America and THEN eurocuck
>suggestions for entry level v8s to get into a work on
Hey i got the perfect ide-
>Nothing with half of the motor hidden under the firewall please.
N-nevermind.
Tejas is yo fwiend.
fellow aussie reporting in
actually experienced the same as OP, bought an ls1 commodore recently
the way the front lifts on acceleration, the way you can smoothly and calmly drive it while overtaking everyone and not hitting 3000rpm, the noise when you do
it's fukken amazing
if you want a v8 to work on, set your sights to cheap. if you want to work on a v8, buy an engine crane and do it properly. dont mess around just swapping spark plugs. unless you love torturing yourself and think it will be fun to do all the work by just performing some kind of soduku taking ages slightly shifting things to access everything from driveshaft seals to rear main seals to con rods or whatever.
only in sydney and melbourne.
I am heading down to sydney for a holiday just to buy some lebs junker.
I get it but I like all V8's! attitude is retarded.
I'd rather have the best i4, best i6, best v6, best v8, best v10, etc. rather than just fan-girling that every iteration of a single engine layout is superior to everything.
with the price of your soul too. Twinscrew is like 5 times the price
I view it as complexity vs capacity
5 litre inline 4 seem like a good idea ?
waste of dubs.
the reason these faggots love the v8s is because the chevy small block, large blocks and LS1 engines are the longest running engine ever produced. various iterations of them have been produced for 50+years. this means old boomer faggots were tuning them before you were born and still are. this means that there's a large market for aftermarket parts and everyone who works on these engines knows them and they're proven to be reliable powerhouses. little has changed such that they have a large array of aftermarket parts, some companies only make parts that specfically fit these engines. so if you want to boost it, there's a bolt on kit. if you want glass rocker covers, there's a kit for it. if you want any part for it, it's still around and fairly cheap. this is why the performance market caters to them. because they're so widely available and widely worked on. its not just a hurr durr nostalgia. you can easily reach 700hp+ using just bolt on kits.
faggots will however never talk about this because they like to pretend that they're hurr durr tuning magician custom job when they just assembled it like lego. but if you want a performance vehicle that doesnt cost over 100k, this is the way to get it.
the smaller the combustion chambers, the faster the acceleration. 1.25L/piston is basically a tractor.
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This assumes you only want high hp and live in a certain part of the world.
>basically a tractor
it's like you've never been in a sports car from the 1930s
well I have seen people buy smartcars. never seen anyone buy one to work on them though.
True. Remember when i was all into the dagumi 10 years ago. But everytime i got on any sort of highway, which there are a lot of here, you begin to feel like a cuck since you have no ass to pull away or pass anything. I stopped being into tuner shit when a crew cab ford smoked my ass.
Neber ageen.
shiny and chrome
>tfw 120 mph is boring
>tfw yuro and driving a V8
I think it's even more glorious to drive one here then it is in the US.
Nigga, TVS = Roots.
>not owning both a turbo v6 and a v8
I'm poor as all fuck, that's what I was implying.
>eurabia
>not basically middle east
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