Originally Posted by
vip18971
So, you're not saying it produces more power than any V6 or V8 our there unless you're on crack. You mean more 'power per cylinder'? Thats the oldest arguement in the book. Every cylinder over 1 you run gives you merginally less gains per additional cylinder. Get how that works? So sure, 4-cyls are more 'efficent' than 8-cyls. A 2-cyl is more efficent than a 4-cyl. Whats your point?
BTW, turbo V8 > turbo I4.
But v8 vs. I4 aside...I'm not very impressed by the Evo's powerplant. It runs like 20 lbs of boost to get what power it makes? I'm sorry but on a turbo car I just think you could do a lot better...
What does a motor have to do to impress you then? How about this, can you triple an LS1's whp without changing the factory internals, how about a 302 or modular 4.6? There are QUITE a few 500+whp 4G63's running around on
stock block, crank, rods, pistons etc. Even a few that broke the 600whp barrier with all the above. All from a motor that put out 195bhp from the factory or about 160ish to the wheels. THAT is impressive no matter how you look at it. Don't even get me started on 302's.... Those motors split themselves easy enough as is.