Because you'd need balancing shafts the size of your leg.
Anthony Mitchell
>comparing a 4cyl stressed to within an inch of its life to a lazy V8 that still gets good MPG and won't ever break
Juan Sanchez
what about cars like the 968?
Jason Young
what if sports cars could rev higher than 9k rpm?
Anthony Rodriguez
That had balancing shafts the size of your leg.
Jacob Watson
That's the second largest petrol straight four in a passenger car since the Second World War, and both it and the even larger Pontiac 195 are notorious for roughness and shaking.
Cooper Moore
What if it was a boxer engine ? The FA20 makes 100HP/L easily.
Blake Bell
it looks pretty small to me,
Angel Smith
Assuming you're not baiting and just somebody who learned what hp/l is today from your ricer friend with a stock base model 2002 civic, if you made a 4 cylinder have 4+L of displacement you would lose the ability to rev high since the pistons would be so damn big and heavy. You can't just "scale up" engines.
Josiah Diaz
The only good thing in a big 4 banger is the noise
If the handa only has a 2.0L engine (Just for comparison) and is making 125hp/L that's only 250hp. If the 302ci(5.0L) is only making 85hp/L that's 425hp. There is no Replacement For Displacement.
Evan Cruz
you can't just "scale up" an engine you fucking retard. as you get to higher displacements you would have to have gigantic pistons which heat unevenly and inhibit complete combustion. more smaller cylinders is more efficient at high displacements.
Aaron Wright
>more smaller wat
Jose Barnes
>more smallerer happy now?
John Barnes
Except for the I6 master race.
Hunter Hall
a high strung 3-4 cyl in a land yacht vs a comfy v8 in a land yacht. What is torque?
Ryan Sanders
Flat 4s run like shit.
Asher Jones
>So why don't auto makers build large displacement 4cyl engines ? Because reciprocating mass.
Evan Morris
more smaller = a higher number of smaller cylinders
Wyatt Green
Kek. No. Just no.
Evan Torres
Hnng, those air cooled airplane engines. Isn't it pretty much two companies that have been making the same thing for decades? Continental and Lycoming I think. How high do those even rev? I thought it was fairly low. Plus boxer.
Austin Richardson
Four cylinders are flatplane and naturally imbalanced, the same reason car companys don't use flatplane V8s. The bigger they are the harder they are to.balance and the.less smooth thay are and considering most car companys like to make atleast sort of well rounded vehicles it makes sense not to see many large displacment I4s
John Thompson
>implying a 5L 4cl engine that revs to over 9000 rpm would be anywhere near reliable or cost effective enough to use in a mass produced car
Tyler Ross
Go drive a Colorado. 2.8 or 2.9 4 cylinder depending on year. They have a couple of balance shafts, and they still vibrate a bit. And driving one of those little trucks is like driving a forklift, or maybe an old 300I-6. Pulls hard, but isn't that fast.