<![CDATA[Jalopnik: Engines]]> http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: Engines]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/engines http://jalopnik.com/tag/engines <![CDATA[When A Train Throws A Piston Run For Your Life]]> These photos purport to be from a Canadian National locomotive engine that literally threw a piston into a home near the track in Independence, Louisiana. The piston from a 212-ton V16 diesel-powered train's not small. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5745042&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Chrysler Puts The Hemi Elephant On A Diet]]> Chrysler will revive the Hemi "Elephant" 426 engine from the 1960s as a crate package, this time with an all-aluminum block and heads that shed 100 lbs. Specs: 540 hp, 530 lb-ft of torque for $13,675 in peanuts. [Chrysler] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5712877&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Chevy Returns To IndyCar Racing In 2012]]> Chevrolet will return to IndyCar racing in 2012 with a twin-turbo V6 to take on Honda, according to the AutoExtremist. It's the first time Chevy's raced in the Indianapolis 500 since 2005 when it offered old-fashioned V8s. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5686648&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Next-Gen Mazda "Sky" Rotary To Get "Drastically Improved" Fuel Economy]]> Mazda's next-gen "Sky" version of the rotary engine will get "drastically improved" fuel economy. [GoAuto] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5631624&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GM, SAIC To Develop Four-Bangers]]> GM, SAIC to develop and build a family of 1.0- to 1.5-liter direct-injection turbocharged-and-sour-flavor four-cylinder engines. [GM] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5615643&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ten Awesome Cars With Large Engines]]> You've heard it a thousand times, but there really is no replacement for displacement. Yesterday, we asked for your suggestions for cars that make the most out of giant engines. Here are ten of the best. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5594637&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[If You Buy Just One Book About Engines This Year, Buy This]]> Veloce Today's Pete Vack recently took a look at Griff Borgeson's The Classic Twin Cam Engine, a dive into the origins of the modern overhead-valve powerplant. Tech geekery? Intrigue? Crazy Frenchmen? This is where your engine came from. —Ed. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5530185&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[This Is An Engine-Block Shredder In Action]]> Fascinating. Horrible. Destructive! Disgusting. Mesmerizing. Crunchy. Awesome. There really aren't enough words. And now, for some strange reason, my teeth hurt. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5555458&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ready... Aim... FIRE!]]> Have some V8 engines and an odd original VW Beetle flat four trashing up your back yard (or front)? Here's a chart from MSD showing various cylinder firing orders. It's practically invaluable. [MSD via BangShift] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5531565&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How Volcanic Ash Can Kill An Airplane]]> As volcanic ash spreads from an eruption under a glacier in the Eyjafjallajokull region of Iceland, the British have taken the drastic step of locking down the country's airspace. Here's why. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5517775&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ten Crazy Engines You Can't Buy Today]]> Jalopnik fan-site Hooniverse eschews the present for ten crazy engines y'all can't buy. [Hooniverse] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5409502&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mazda "SKY" Engines, Transmission: First Look]]> Mazda will unveil a threesome of engine technology — the ‘Mazda SKY-G' direct-injection gas engine, the ‘Mazda SKY-D' diesel engine and the ‘Mazda SKY Drive' automatic transmission — at next month's Tokyo Motor Show. Details and engine pr0n below. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5370090&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GM Not Canceling Flint Volt Engine Plant, Just Construction Contracts]]> Construction contracts for GM's new Flint, MI engine plant have been canceled, but GM tells us plans to build the new 1.4-liter four-banger powering the Chevy Volt and Cruze in Flint remain unchanged. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5140936&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[G-Oil: Yep, You Guessed It, A Green Motor Oil]]> With green-this, hydrogen-that, hybrid-this and Al Gore-that all slowly taking over the pages of Jalopnik, we thought that we still had the safe haven known as the "traditional engine" to fall back on, free from worries about the environment or mpg or anything else. Until now. Welcome G-Oil to the party, the green-alternative to traditional motor oil. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=363799&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Big Block With Four Turbos, Witty Headline Impossible]]> We had to reload this the first time it popped up, as we couldn't believe what our eyes were telling us. This serpentine piece of steel poetry is a 442 ci V8 sporting four independent turbochargers, all running through an intercooler. The entire system is modular and can be dropped into a drag-racing host as a single piece. Four turbos. Four! And big, bus-sized ones at that. The madmen behind this are Mike Moran and John Meaney, and they've whipped up a doozy of an engine. Anybody can slap on four turbos and call it a day, but this thing has a couple of extra tricks up it's sleeve.
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=359644&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Beautiful Hand-Built Air-Cooled V12 Makes 68 HP Per Liter]]>
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=339153&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Is this the End? F1 Bans Engine Development for 10 Years]]> FIA has just announced a 10-year ban on engine development in Formula One. Teams will have to submit an engine to FIA by March 31, 2008, which they will then have to use through 2017. Speaking about the decision, FIA President Max Mosley said, "There is no need to develop an F1 engine any further. The engine runs at 19,000 rpm, which is far faster than any comparable engine. It sounds good, it's reliable and amazingly the six partially frozen engines of the current manufacturers are really evenly matched." More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=331695&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Lexus IS-F Engine: Topless and Naked]]> I mentioned in today's Part 1 of the IS-F review that if you remove the engine cover you're, "Looking at Darth Vader's chest plate, an expansive jumble of wires, black boxes and even more wires." Well, I wasn't kidding. More after the jump. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=319012&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SEMA 2007: APS Twin-Turbos The C6 ZO6 LS7 Engine]]> The folks over at Air Power Systems decided the 505 horses of stock output from the Z06's LS7 engine just wasn't enough for them. So the turbo-lovin' young punks took the stock engine and developed themselves a twin turbocharger kit, which they claim brings the engine's output up to an amazing 1100 rear-wheel HP. Nice — who needs to wait for the Detroit Auto Show and the reveal of the new supercharged 2009 Corvette ZR1 when you can build yourself an APS-engineered turbocharged Corvette Z06? Well, you won't get the neat-o see-through plastic hood. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=318840&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Subaru Engine Destruction]]> From the always have a fire extinguisher around department comes this Subaru mill being sacrificed to the oil change gods. We're not sure if this is an educational video showing why not to run an engine with no oil in the crankcase, or was produced solely for entertainment purposes. Either way the Subaru engine fights hard before it breathes its last. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=314649&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Workhorse Engine of the Day: Mitsubishi Astron]]> From a distant galaxy of single overhead cam engines comes the Mitsubishi Astron series. The mighty Astron began life in 1972, and is still ticking away under the hoods of everything from Mitsubishi Starions to the panoply of Chrysler K-Car variants. In the beginning, the Flying Sikh himself pummeled an Astron equipped original Lancer to numerous rally victories. Patented silent shaft technology canceled out harmonics as the engine grew in displacement from 1.8 to 2.6 liters of four pot fury. The last production car to pack the Astron was either the the 1991 Pajero or the 1990 Starion, but only if not counting the diesel version of the Astron - which motored on with turbo until 1993 amid Galants. 21 years of Astron! In sourcing a new cylinder head sans jet valves for one of the two 2.6L G54B turbo variants of the Astron in our garage we learned that the 'ol G54B aspirated on propane with propane accessories serves in many forklifts to this day. The odd marriage of Mopar, Mitsubishi, and K-Car station wagons also led to some innovative badging - as seen in the bonus pic after the jump. [Mitsubishi Astron] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=314058&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Workhorse Engine of the Day: Rolls-Royce/Bentley V8]]> What? Workhorse? Rolls-Royce? Sacrilege! Hey man, if you don't think chauffeuring bank presidents and crown princes from fox hunt to fox hunt all the while getting 1960 Mouton-Rothschild Bordeaux hurled at you after every pothole is work, well, you sir are worse than a kulak. Today's proletarian mill comes to you by way of well-loved Bolshevik commenter Heep:
What about the Rolls-Royce/Bentley V8 as a workhorse engine of the day? It's hardly a plebian motor, but considering it can be made to pass 2009 emissions regs still pump out more power than most vehicles on the road, all while celebrating its 50th birthday, I think it's pulled its fair share of the weight...
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=312518&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Oh My: Aprilia V4 Produces 220 Horsepower]]> It's been the talk among kneedraggers since Aprilia announced its development last year. It's the moto maker's new, 1000 cc V4, and it's giving motorcycle- engine geeks a new reason to engage in cocktail-party speculation. The latest from Aprilia is that the V4 is undergoing durability testing in four tuning stages, from a spry 185 horsepower up to a hyperbole-defying 220. And the company says its first four banger will likely hit the track sometime in 2008. As for the street version, there's no word. But a 220-horsepower superbike for the street would skip right to the top of the class. Not to mention, the 2.0-liter V8 some joker is bound to build by fusing two of them together could be a bit of fun too. [Gizmag] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=308089&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[500-Horse Camaro? The General's Next Small Block V8 to Get Direct-Injection]]> According to Ward's Auto, an experimental 6.2-liter, direct-injection V8 producing upward of 500 hp could be factored into the next Chevrolet Camaro equation. The engine would coincide with the Gen V version of the small-block V8, based on GM's existing all-aluminum Gen IV (L92), which powers the Cadillac Escalade, GMC Yukon Denali and Hummer H2. According to Wards, the prototype powerplant resides in the engine bay of an Escalade being tested at GM's proving grounds. One GM engineer says it's developing "well north" of 450 horsepower, a 10 percent increase in low-end torque and three percent to six percent better fuel economy. That from the new injection system, which features eight high-pressure injectors that squirt fuel directly into the side of the combustion chamber at 2,250 pounds per square inch. [Ward's Auto via Motive] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=296222&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Mercedes Reveals DiesOtto Engine: It Runs On Gas]]> 1.8 Liters, 240bhp, 295 lb/ft and 40mpg in a vehicle as heavy as an S-class. According to Mercedes, this is the future of gasoline engines. Featuring direct injection, a turbocharger, variable compression and a hybridized starter motor, the DiesOtto engine would be impressive with these features alone. The real innovation, however, is the controlled auto ignition, a combustion process similar to that of a diesel engine. No word yet on when it goes into production or in which vehicles it'll be used. Full press release after the jump. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=282231&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Audi Dropping New 1.4-liter TFSI Four-Banger In A3, A3 Sportback]]> The 2.0 TFSI engine from the knights of Bruce has already taken some serious metal in the "Best of" categories. Now Audi's using that technology to create a smaller version of the award-winning 2.0-liter engine, announcing a new, "ultra-modern" (we're pretty sure that's code for über-Bruce) 1.4-liter four-cylinder Turbo Fuel Stratified Injection (TFSI) engine. It's ready to be dropped right into the engine bay of the Audi A3 and A3 Sportback. With 125 HP at 5,000 RPM and a maximum torque of 148 lb-ft. The first A3's to get the new engine hit the streets in September of 2007. Full press release after the jump. (Hat tip to Turboner!) [via AudiWorld] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=281674&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Coxtabulous!]]> When a cranial portion of the Cerberus-esque poodle we call Jalopnik was wee, he had a friend named Robert. Robert had a stupid-hot older sister named Chablis. Robert's family had a "Forget The Dog, Beware of Owner" sticker in their front window. They also had a Pomeranian named Hop Sing. And an RX-4 wagon in the backyard, along with a '53 Panhead and Robert's '70 Mini Trail. They had a Hatfield-and-McCoy relationship with the family across the street. Robert's grandparents lived down the street and had an immaculate C-Body Fury and its antithesis, a perfect pale-blue Datsun 510. And lots and lots of soda. We'd sit in the trunk of the Plymouth and drink soda. Robert's dad memorably told him that he had "starting fluid on the brain." Robert also had a Cox-powered tether-plane that nearly cut his finger off while he was trying to start it. Robert was either the unluckiest or the luckiest guy we've ever known. We miss that guy. We like to believe he grew up to be the Cooter Davenport of Klamath Falls, Oregon. And we like to think he owns every one of the wonderous one-lunged miniature miracles on the linked page. And that he still has all of his fingers. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=271216&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Chrysler To Upgrade Wis. Engine Plant]]> It'll produce the new Phoenix V6. Hey — isn't the Phoenix a mythical bird that dies in a burst of flames? [Freep] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=268778&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Directly Injected: 300hp GM V6]]> General Motors is moving closer toward the holy grail of simultaneous horsepower and efficiency by taking a more direct route. Direct injection works by taking the fuel injectors away from the cylinder head intake ports, and into the combustion chambers. The ability to meter precise amounts of fuel into the chamber at exactly the right time makes for clean cold starts, enables higher compression ratios, improves fuel economy, and can help extract V8-level horsepower numbers out of a V6. GM claims 300 ponies from Cadillac's version of the naturally aspirated, direct injected 3.6-liter V6 engine, currently in pre-production at the GM Flint Engine South plant. While one atmosphere in the chambers is OK, direct injection fuel control also holds the potential for creative use of forced induction setups that still meet cold startup emissions standards. We'll take a directly injected twin-turbo V6 in something light, with rear-wheel drive and a six-speed manual. Hey-yo! – Mike Bumbeck More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=233625&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[From Fukui to You: More on Honda's Diesels, Turbos]]> Honda's CEO, Takeo "The First Person to Call Me Dr. F Loses an Eye" Fukui says the company is working up a clean diesel V6 that will likely power the Honda Pilot and Acura MDX, AutoWeek reports. The prospective V6 is the second of Honda's new diesel engines to come to light, the first being a 2.2-liter four set to arrive in 2009, potentially in the Civic and CRV. In the same interview Fukui also said the company's recent move to turbocharge its new RDX may trickle down to Honda brand products, which may finally vindicate the kids with boost gauges sprouting from their Civics' A-pillars like weird, analog fruit. – Mike Spinelli More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=219293&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[800hp No Injection, No Blower, No Nitrous, 347ci]]> Now this is what we call a Windsor. Engine builder Joe Sherman's come up with a 347 cubic-inch stroker based on Ford's venerable 302 that cranks out 816 hp and 531 lb-ft. Using a Ford Racing block and AFR cylinder heads running 14.5:1 compression (race gas, much), the stroked screamer will push a Super Gas car deep into eight-second territory. Now where'd we put that Topolino we had lying around? Probably in the couch somewhere. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=200928&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Euro 5, Mitsubishi 2010: A Clean, New Diesel Coming Next Decade]]> Yesterday, Mitsubishi Motors informed the press the company was indeed planning to be in business past next Tuesday. Mitsubishi Motors and its parent, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, announced they will collaborate on a small diesel engine that will meet the next level of Europe's gathering emissions standards, or Euro 5, that will go into effect in 2010. The engine's expected to be in the can by 2009, and will show up in small and midsize cars for the 2010 model year — replacing diesels sourced by Volkswagen and DaimlerChrysler. According to the EU, Euro 5—compliant diesels will be required to emit exhaust that simulates the breath of puppies, scented with undertones of cotton candy and purple Jelly Belly candy. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=182175&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Camless Engines Promise Greater Efficency]]> A car's camshaft is like an annoying brother-in-law who moves in, eats your food, asks for loans and takes over your spare room. Problem is, he's the only one who knows how to open the windows or use the stove, so your helpless ass is pretty much stuck with him. But one company, Valeo, is working on a way to kick brother cam's energy-sucking buttocks out the door. The system uses electromagnetic actuators to open and close an engine's valves, an action typically done mechanically by, you guessed it, the camshaft. The system, currently being tested on Peugeot cars, promises to reduce gas engines' fuel consumption by 20%, putting them in line with diesels for fuel efficiency. The company says the cam's bags could be packed and a taxi called as early as 2008. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=131032&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[World Products Goes Windsor Crazy!]]> Paging Ross the Boss! Bill Mitchell, of Bill Mitchell's Hardcore Racing and World Products fame has unleashed the new Man O' War Ford Windsor-based block on an unsuspecting public used to his work with Chevy (not Chery) mills. With the raw casting thickened in critical areas, the World Products block can eliminate the need for stud girdles (although we personally like wearing our stud girdle it ups our mansexy quotient), and lessens the chance of a nitrous shot blowing the block in half through the lifter valley. The piece weighs about 60lbs more than a standard 302 unit, but the added boeuf should be worth it to serious Ford racers. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=126786&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[AMG's New Screamer: Mercedes' 6.3-Liter V8 in Depth]]> True engine geeks are a special breed of car nut. These guys traffic in more minutiae than the writers of "Seinfeld": tractive power, torque-per-liter, closed deck vs open deck vs semiclosed deck. For everyone else, there's the age-old "will it rip a hole in the space-time continuum?" Mercedes's new V8 will likely be able to satisfy both camps. More »
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