Drew Dowdell

Honda has already done that in some of their race engines. They use a ceramic tube so to withstand the heat better. It's excellent in super high RPM situations.... the downside is that it makes VVT even harder to do then in "cam in block" designs.

I invisioned a "flat" engine where instead of the pistons facing out, they would face inward. There would be two crankshafts attached to equal sized gears that would connect to the transmission. The camshaft(s) would run up the center over the top of the cylinders. It would be a side valve. The piston heads would face each other so that during a compression stroke, you'd have *both* pistons compressing the gas vapor in the cylinder. It would need to be something around a 4 cylinder/8 piston. It would really change the way we talked about engines... since the number of pistons is double the number of cylinders.

uhm.... Subaru's boxer 4 is a flat 4. It's just a different way of saying the same thing. It's the same distinction as a Wankel engine compaired to a Rotary engine.

Oh yea, I paid a substantial amount of money to the site as well.... and I got squat..... which is precisely what I asked for.

If we need another fund drive, we have another fund drive..... that's all there is to it.

uhm... which car does a 267hp 3.6 come in? 255 + 15% = 293hp I wonder if they can find 7 hp in there somewhere for the '08 CTS.

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Ya know why? Because you have 110hp at 6,000 RPM....that's with the IMA running. Electric motors aren't very good at high rpm power.... they're all about low rpm torque.... Electric motors have 100% of max torque at 0 RPM. It only goes down as RPM increases. At 6000 rpm, I doubt the IMA is contributing much at all. In conclusion, heading uphill, you're most likely relying completely on a 1.3 litre torqueless wonder to get you up the hill.

Generation Y is more in reference to that generation's tendency to question everything. It's actually supposed to be Generation Why?

I've heard nothing but good things about their reliability.... the boxer engines are supposed to be superb.

english

I'm not really paying homage.... I just know a hot guy when I see one. This guy is waay hotter then Jake... but not as well known.

dabblin in those water colors Sly?

Would you believe I haven't seen Brokeback... and don't really care to?

To put that in perspective. A 1997 Regal LS does 0-60 in 7.8 seconds... and gets 30mpg highway EPA...higher than that real world.... with a 4-speed. Oh wait .. *sips Kool-Aid* Pushrods are teh SUXORS!

Jake Gyllenhaal

eh eh Fly, 2 door sedan. :AH-HA_wink:

So what I think we need now is someone to chop a CTS into an Olds version.

I'm thinking they're saving the granite trim for the Flintstone edition.

f@#kinbroken

None ever... and the most I have to drink is something with dinner.

There isn't enough land in the US for ethanol if you only base the ethanol production on corn. Sugar, switch grass, potatoes and hops.... another matter entirely.

Buick

Oil changes cost more then your standard car because they take more then 5 quarts of oil. Other then that, just the usual headaches associated with any overly gizmoed car.

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