280HP. Pah, that's only mildly scary. Over the 350HP mark it gets really silly. There are a lot of willy wavers in the Lotus 7 club mind who will waste ridiculous money to get the most power for no good reason.
Scary enough for me! I like to keep my willy fully attached
He used to race a classic Lola, T610 I think it was. Lovely car, but a total money sink!
Not if the cars get progressively heavier each year that goes by!
Modern cars also have a lot more gadgets in them.
A small compact SUV powered by a 2.2L 32 cam engine ain't going nowhere and ain't getting 30MPG cause the engine is always running at high rpm's just to get off the line.
And don't tell me that the 3S-FE/5S-FE camry 2.2L gets good mileage, it don't. It sucks more juice than a falcon does and thats a 4.0L I6!
Same with modern falcons which top in at 2 tonnes despite having 300HP will go quick but suck the go juice really fast.
Cars in the 80s were like 1.5 tonnes or less, that ain't true anymore.
And lets not forget the weight that quantum dots have on things.
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Funny how you use practically the same vocabulary to describe effects on an engine as is used to describe the effects of snake oil on audio systems.
Should be easy enough to get objective numbers like fuel consumption, acceleration, power and torque curves for a car to avoid having to use meaningless phrases like 'sweeter top end'.
Comprehensive dynamometer testing beats flowery bs EVERY TIME.
I thought it was nice that my V6 camry in Manual fashion gets an impressive 7.2 seconds on the 0-60: YouTube
Also you can't do better than the Denso Iridium TT spark plugs!
Stay away from the Bosch long life ones, I heard one poor guy had his ceramic insulator let go of the center pin and the center pin rolled around in his engine causing massive damage. I've got a set of them and I think they are discount-bin quality too. Circumstantial I know.
Also you can't do better than the Denso Iridium TT spark plugs!
Stay away from the Bosch long life ones, I heard one poor guy had his ceramic insulator let go of the center pin and the center pin rolled around in his engine causing massive damage. I've got a set of them and I think they are discount-bin quality too. Circumstantial I know.
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I had one of those. They don't get anywhere even remotely close to that kind of mileage, I don't care what kind of ground up ferrite beads in vaseline goop you spread on it.
Those have been about for more than 30yrs.
Although they produce 'three arcs', it's the single strongest ark that initiates the burn.
Long electrode surface discharge.... the halfway SD for engines that cant run the real deal.
Hint:
Gotta make sure the 'flame' develops in the correct way and time.
The system needs to fire 4 times before and 3 times after (a practical average) in 'relation to' a single fire systems dynamic timing, not a single time.
This is according to 'Fuel Log' app.
Speedo and Odo are within a couple of percent according to GPS app.
Steady state country driving at 90 kph mostly, plus 80k, 70k and 60k zones and roads.
Fuel usage goes up at 100 kph freeway speed.
Dan.
I agree with that, my same research when I went shopping for new plugs said that as well.
And that fun fact makes all "huge multiple-number-of negative electrode" spark plugs completely useless and in fact will do nothing but worsen your fuel economy by restricting the flame fronts escape from the center of the spark plug. Best ones are the Denso Iridium TT, good price, very little restriction in the area surrounding the positive electrode. quality brand name. perfect.
Check out this video: YouTube
AND changing out a spark plug contributes very little to overall fuel economy, provided it isn't fouled. You might gain 1%.
If I were to go all-crazy and put quantum dots on my car I would probably start by improving the power quality and low ESR delivered to the computer/ignition coil/fuel injectors so that they have a good punchy bass. First starting by swapping out capacitors in the ECU.
Just so you geeks can drool over perfectly engineered Toyota-grade machine work I've attached a picture of my 3VZ-FE engine. Yes the 1MZ-FE is better cause it has an aluminum block but meh mine can take more boost (and I don't have a nanny-state ECU, 1st gen OBD-1) SO THERE!
Reference: 3VZ-FE Toyota engine
The 3vz-fe is the Best Toyota v6 – Midship Runabout
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Ok.....
Your engine is doing 3,000rpm and it fires a single spark at 20 degrees btdc.
A 'multi' fire ignition fires (using 4 / 3 @ 3,000rpm):
Once @ 16,17,18,19,20,21,22 and 23 degrees.
To do this you need 2 coils and a 'real' surface discharge plug per cylinder.
This system was developed in the good old days of 1,500bhp F1 quali engines etc etc........ but it just happens to work - read as improve 'mpg' - in N/A engines.
It also works on two strokes with tuned pipes.
The biggest gains are in making the engines internals force the flame in the right directions, Lancia did a lot of work in this area which resulted in the Delta EVP double cross flow head which created a defined 'swirl path'.
Lesson over.
Edit note: I cant multi task (am fixing a lap-top and listening to Pink Floyd), the firing is through every degree starting at 24 and ending at 17..... though in reality each spark can be timed @ 1.5 or whatever division of crank angle.
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