But wouldn't a Turbo VR6 > Turbo IT ???
Honestly just speculating, I don't own a VW much less a VR6.
Boost actually helps to reduce the affects of a poorer flowing head. You'd have better low end torque and faster spool. Only at the cost of a little bit of added weight. And let's not even begin to talk about the small amount of added complexity compared to the overall complexity of an engine.
>revving to 6000 is just as good as revving to 9000
ok lad
>But wouldn't a Turbo VR6 > Turbo I4???
No. The entire point of a VR6 is to mount a single-head six cylinder transversely. Have you ever seen the piping on a turbo'd transverse six? It's a huge mess - part of the reason why Honda decided to mount the second gen NSX V6 longitudinally, especially so because it's a mess with cooling. If you've ever seen one of those Polestar V60/S60 T6 units with the twinturbo transverse I6, you'll have nightmares for days.
Boost is just a bandaid that can help against the bad engine design and poor head flow. Even worse, a VR6 is pretty bad to boost. You can't supercharge it easily, because it has no valley to put a supercharger. Turbos are a piping mess, and you're losing a lot of exhaust entropy into those long exhaust runners, which means your turbo wouldn't spool as quickly as it would in a V6. What's worse is that the poorer your head flow, the more compression (boost pressure) you need to achieve a certain amount of total airflow, which equates to power. If you need to compress the air more, thermodynamics bites you in the ass and heats up the air, which will cause premature detonation if you don't pull some timing. Basically, poorer head flow is a restriction even under boost. If you want a really good boosted VAG engine, you'd be better off with a 20v - either the 1.8 4cyl or 2+ 5cyl.
>His I6 only revs to 9K
Can some explain this pic to me? The arrows and such how it works?
Also what are valves?
>This is your average Veeky Forums poster
en.wikipedia.org
Pretty much this. The VR6 is heavy, doesn't make a lot of power, gets really hot, and is a pain to boost. I still love my car and personally think it sounds amazing
Its odd to see high revving inline 6 too, jack-o.
Inlines 6 are also unbalanced. the secondary vibrations are only balanced for like 1 or 2 thirds of the entire crank travel. The only fully balanced engines are V8s and flats.
My accord is a sports car. I can't handle the truth ;_;
>v8
>balanced
>wat
it should have came with a flat 6