Here's the thread to post what your favourite engines are. Popular, forgotten, old, new, sixteen cylinders or four, post whatever you wish, some data about it and why you like it.

I'm going to go ahead and start with Lambourghini's new V12 going in their new Avantador. At 700HP, naturally aspirated, this little screamer will climb to 8500RPM. Here's a video of it being assembled, and then ran on the test bench.

http://jalopnik.com/5690504/hear-the-new-lamborghini-v12-in-action - http://jalopnik.com/5690504/hear-the-new-lamborghini-v12-in- action

Once you shake your goosebumps off, post your own favourites!

Tristan, I think we should limit this discussion to engines we've owned and have actually driven.

With that in mind... My favorite engine was a big block 396 Chevy with ported/polished oval port heads, solid lifter lumpy cam, aluminum hi-rise intake manifold, Holley 4 barrel, headers, "turbo" mufflers, true dual exhaust with 2 1/2" tail pipes exiting out the side of the car in front of the rear tires. ('67 Chevelle SS396)

Talk about gobs of torque, and the rough idle with clacking solid lifters and a short exhaust system sounded magnificent!

Ah, the good old days...

Patrick wrote: Tristan, I think we should limit this discussion to engines we've owned and have actually driven. With that in mind... My favorite engine was a big block 396 Chevy with ported/polished oval port heads, solid lifter lumpy cam, aluminum hi-rise intake manifold, Holley 4 barrel, headers, "turbo" mufflers, true dual exhaust with 2 1/2" tail pipes exiting out the side of the car in front of the rear tires. ('67 Chevelle SS396) Talk about gobs of torque, and the rough idle with clacking solid lifters and a short exhaust system sounded magnificent! Ah, the good old days...

No, post any images. Another engine I like, and that probably very few here have heard of, was Isuzu's 60 degree V12. At over 13000RPM and 700HP, the thing was beyond ridiculous, especially considering Isuzu's reputation as a safe, sensible car company. The engines were designed for the Lotus race team, though Lotus decided to play it safe and take less extreme, but more reliable Honda engines for their team instead. A few of the engines eventually worked their way into the Cojo concepts, one sits on a stand, surrounded by glass in Isuzu's museum, and reportedly one was accidentally sold off to the public, although that seems to be more urban myth than proven fact.

Car-2-Lo wrote: Patrick wrote: Talk about gobs of torque, and the rough idle with clacking solid lifters and a short exhaust system sounded magnificent! Ah, the good old days... Sounds like your old DUKE

Oh don't I wish!

I listened to a bunch of Chevy engines with lumpy idles on YouTube. This one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x9XzFYu91M&playnext=1&list=PLBD6F13A18FE895DD&index=45&fmt=18 - Here sounds very similar to my ol' 396... almost as good.

kharmata wrote: May fav. http://www.youtube.com/watch? V8 (link no worky - copy & paste the one below) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8TXMUaC9Os&feature=relat ed

Another fairly small supercharged V is the V16 in the BRM-16.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE

At 1.5L, the thing still sounds big and burly. 550HP, can rev to 12000RPM, and dry-sumped and supercharged. All in the '50s. FANTASTIC little engine.

I have the audio to that video on my iPod, actually. lol

V10's are my favourite engine type... The Porsche V10 that sits in the back of the Porsche Carrera GT (My favourite car of all time) is about the only engine I've ever heard that literally sings as it revs. Many engines can sound whiny, or brutal, or loud, but the Carrera GT... It just sounds beautiful.

Patrick

didnt you drive that same configuration in a caprice or impala in high school...... i seem to remember you and a buddy running big blocks

M

Mine and owned

1969 302 z28 solid lifter engine c/w turbo 400 tranny with 2500 rpm stall hotshot converter installed in my 1965 malibu ss convertible..

Car needed a roll cage though!!!!

Can you say adrenaline

M

marcelvdgn wrote: Patrick didnt you drive that same configuration in a caprice or impala in high school...... i seem to remember you and a buddy running big blocks

Wow, I'm really impressed with your memory, Marcel.

Holy smokes, that was back in 1974 (a year after we graduated from Templeton) that I had my first car, a '67 Chev Caprice, and Paul Sartorello had his '67 Chev Impala SS. You're right about the engines as well. Paul bought a brand new LS7 454 and put that beast in his Impala SS. I bought the 396 that was in his Impala, and reworked the heads and changed the cam and added all the rest of the other goodies to the engine when I dropped it into the Caprice (which I had also installed a positrack and 4:10 gears). That same 396 eventually ended up in my '67 Chevelle SS396.

As quick as my Chevelle was, Paul's Impala was an absolute MONSTER with that ultra high performance 454. We had some pretty wild street races on east Hastings Street and along Kingsway in Burnaby against assorted Hemi's and 429 Cobras, etc.  (No, I wouldn't street race like that again in this day and age.)

Here's the old '67 Caprice somewhere on the road to Penticton, possibly in 1975.

Johnny, you realize we're dating ourselves by posting the years these pictures were taken. However, as old as my picture is, your picture from 1962 is ancient!  Beautiful supercharged Packard Hawk though!

Aw, cool pictures! I'm stoked at the success of the thread!

And Patrick, it kinda seemed like your post seemed to imply you drove recklessly and fast when you were younger... Weird.

Romeo wrote: And Patrick, it kinda seemed like your post seemed to imply you drove recklessly and fast when you were younger... Weird.

Occasionally I drove "fast" in a straight line for a very short duration. These races would be over in a matter of seconds.

And there was a whole lot less traffic on the roads than there is today.

Seriously, I wouldn't say I was all that "reckless".

Having said that, the scariest experience I ever had going fast was one day while driving around in my Chevelle with some young neighborhood girl. I thought I'd impress her with some pinned-to-the-back-of-the-seat acceleration. (Young guys have no sense of what really impresses a girl.)

So I was going "through the gears" and had just stuck 'er into third gear when some car pulled out of a side street right in front of me. He all of a sudden heard/saw me coming at some gawd-awful speed towards him... and he stopped. Yes, he stopped directly in front of me!  

All I could do was jam on the brakes and brace for impact against his driver's door! Just before plowing into him, he came to his senses (probably the sound on my four tires screaming bloody murder screeching across the pavement woke him up) and he hit his gas pedal and just barely cleared the intersection before I skidded to a stop well beyond where he had been sitting a split second previously.

Scared the crap out of me (and the girl). I never did anything quite so stupid again.

kharmata wrote: turbo 400 3 speed. Did 0-60 in 1st gear, 105Mph in second...

Sounds like you had the same tranny and gearing as I originally had in my Caprice. With 2:73 gearing (before I swapped over to 4:10 gears), that baby could go awfully fast on the freeway.

Sweet GTO, Kevin!  How about a picture of it with YOU in the picture as well!  

marcelvdgn wrote: Mine and owned 1969 302 z28 solid lifter engine c/w turbo 400 tranny with 2500 rpm stall hotshot converter installed in my 1965 malibu ss convertible..

Come on Marcel, we need a picture... with YOU in it!

kharmata wrote: Patrick, what's your obsession with people - I thought this was about motors and such...? Must be feeling a bit dated all on your own eh?

Blame Johnny. He turned a so-so thread into something much more interesting with his photograph from 1962.

Dawg wrote: Isn't a 302 a Ford engine?  :)

Who cares about Fords.

For those who aren't familiar with it, Chevrolet had a fantastic high revving http://www.holisticpage.com/camaro/camaros/302.htm - 302 cubic inch small block back in the late 60's.

Mopar>Ford>Chevy. Sorry Patty, it's just a fact. lol

Romeo wrote: Mopar>Ford>Chevy. Sorry Patty, it's just a fact. lol

Not in this universe.

Picture to follow as i have it framed at my office .... will scan and publish,,,,,,,,, and yes i have hair in the picture, M

The Northstar is a pretty gnarley engine, no denying that.

I'm going to go ahead and add a couple more GM's I'm sure people have heard of: The LS7 and the LSx.

The LS7, widely adored by engine swappers and Corvette Z06 owners, was a 7.0L (427ci) pushrod V8, with no thought given to price - it was to be the best damn V8 GM could make. At 505HP, 475ibs-ft of torque, weighing in at 405ibs and spinning happily all the way to 7250RPM, the thing was a monster. Dry sumped, aluminum heads/block, molybdenum rings, port fuel-injected, titanium intake valves, sodium filled stainless steel exhaust valves, headers and coil-on-plug ignition, the engine was not only phenominally powerful, but very reliable (VERY reliable - they can take 1000HP all day long) and also could manage 30MPG in the Corvette.

If the LS7 was a surgeon's scalpel, the LSx can be thought of as a brutish cudgel. Available in either 454ci or 512ci, the LSx doesn't have much technology of any kind. It's a large, heavy iron block built with a singular purpose - to be invincible. GM's drag prototype was shown in 2006, and on the stock internals, it was doing 2200HP. The last I heard was back in late 2008, but it was apparently still running those stock internals just fine, and had been run for a total of 120 hours during various events and dyno sessions. Hard to deny an engine that manages over two-thousand horsepower without complaint.

Romeo wrote:   I'm going to go ahead and add a couple more GM's I'm sure people have heard of: The LS7 and the LSx. The LS7, widely adored by engine swappers and Corvette Z06 owners, was a 7.0L (427ci) pushrod V8, with no thought given to price - it was to be the best damn V8 GM could make. At 505HP, 475ibs-ft of torque, weighing in at 405ibs and spinning happily all the way to 7250RPM, the thing was a monster...

Just to confuse the issue, the LS7 designation was originally a 454 offered back in the early 70's as a crate engine. (Note the bolded last sentence below.) This was the engine that my buddy put into his '67 Impala SS.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Big-Block_engine - Wikipedia :

The big-block was expanded again for 1970 to 454.2 cubic inches (7.4 L) with a 4.251 in (108.0 mm) bore and 4 in (100 mm) stroke. The 1970 Chevy Corvette LS5 version of this engine produced 390 hp (291 kW) and 500 lb·ft (680 N·m), and the LS6 engine was rated at 450 hp (340 kW). It has been suggested that the LS6 was substantially underrated and actually produced well over 500 horsepower (370 kW) as delivered from the factory, although there is no empirical evidence to support this claim. Indeed, the AHRA ASA Class record holding Chevelle LS6 for the 1970 season posted a record setting trap speed of 106.76 mph (171.81 km/h) "1970 ASA LS6 454 Records", which suggests something on the order of 370 "as installed" (SAE Net) HP for a 3,900 pounds (1,800 kg) car and driver combination. A 465 hp (347 kW) and 490 lb·ft (660 N·m) version of the 454, dubbed LS7 was also designed but never went to production. However, a handful of LS7 intake manifolds were produced and sold by a few Chevy dealers as performance parts. The LS7 was later offered as a crate engine from GM and advertised at 500 hp (370 kW).

You'd think with all the combinations of numbers and letters available that GM wouldn't have had to give two completely different engines the same name!

Pic as requested......quality, questionable......car, Fabulous. Great memories.

Who's that hairy guy?

Digging the dual antennas. Great for that symmetrical look!

Gotta love those old Chevs.

Oh. My. God. Marcel, if I didn't know, I'd have a tough time knowing that was you! You have more facial hair than I do! Car is phenominal.

And yeah Patty, GM is rather silly that way. I knew they had an older engine named the LS7 as well, but as cool as it is, I love the modern LS7 more.

Lets see favorite cool engines, I'd say the Northstar's and 3.4 TDC motors.  Anything GM/Chevy with Twin Cams.

Late model cool engine is the new I believe 3.0 L DOHC V8 that is pump gas runnable, 11,000rpm red-line and makes something like 550hp, I can't remember the car that it comes in though, it was on Top Gear in that funny sports car that has no body just a frame 2 seats and a mid engine motor.  Wait, I think I remember the Aerial Atom. Really amazing motor.  Would be great in a Fiero as the motor is tiny.

http://www.mountune.com/Racing/Engines/RST-V8 - Speaking of high-revving, small displacement V8's...

The Roush Performance designed RST-V8. 2.4L, and weighs just 90Kg. Has five valves per cylinder, which I'm guessing helps it breathe at it's 10,500RPM HP peak (And it can continue revving up another thousand, if you need). Speaking of power peak, how many ponies did they wedge into that 2400cc motor? Well, if you stay away from forced induction, a paltry 380HP. With the supercharger strapped on? North of 500HP.

Would be quite the quick little Fiero...