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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    All I know is that a N/A 6.2 liter feels more energetic and effortless than a 3.6TT in normal driving.... and that's just a pushrod 6.2... or as SMK calls it, a "truck engine" (comparing a Corvette Stingray Convertible to an ATS-V Coupe)
  2. Drew Dowdell
    At how much throttle? You're not hitting 23 psi at 1/3 - 1/2 throttle where most people drive. Even on my boat anchor 307, half throttle off of a red light will put me into the back of a Camry. At those throttle positions, you're getting little to no boost. People don't drive around at full throttle 23psi boost more than 5% of the time. Turbo is an attempt to replace displacement. So most of the time a 4.0tt is really just a 4.5 - 5.0 at 1/3 throttle, while a 6.2 is still a 6.2 no matter where the throttle is. (Ignoring AFM for now)
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Price, low take rate, only offered on the DTS which was geared towards the least technically adept buyer in the first place. The people who would have been most interested in it would have more likely been Escalade, STS, XLR, and CTS buyers... not buyers of "old school" Cadillac that came with a bench seat standard. It was GM's ineptness at product packaging at the time, nothing more.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    I dunno. In both cases, people are taking advantage of the spirit of the rules. Mind you, I've benefited from this in the past... picked up a mower that had been returned. It was a gas mower and the tag says "Customer states 'Makes a loud noise'". Took it out in the parking lot, fired it up, and it ran fine for 7 years after that.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    That's part of the settlement. VW is paying above market rates to buy back the cars and deep discounts to those customers who purchase new VWs.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    The VSport 3.6 should be sufficient. It's already built. It's already mated to the 8speed auto.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    Peak HP is largely irrelevant because it is only obtained at full throttle. No one drives like that even 5% of the time. The Escalade feels smarter off the line because it has more grunt at 1/3 throttle. 1/3 throttle on a turbo charged car isn't going to get you the kind of thrust you are talking about because the boost hasn't kicked in yet, even at 3,500rpm. Further muddying the waters is dynamic throttle response dictated by the computer.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    People are just being petty and trying to take advantage of the situation.... Tale as old as time..
  9. Drew Dowdell
    He's not single.... His girlfriend is already picking out houses.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    I don't think twilight sentinel was ever dropped, the name was, but the concept never was. Automatic high beams were dropped somewhere in the late 80s. They made a brief return in the Sigma body STS and then were gone again until recently.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    My 85 Lincoln had them and they were a nice feature. Since nearly all cars now have some sort of forward facing sensor already, this shouldn't be that hard to do.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    I'll be keeping this in my back pocket.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    I love the sound of the Hemi and the GM small blocks under full throttle.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    Whether a DOHC V8 sounds better or a Pushrod V8 sounds better is just the difference between Vanilla cake with Chocolate icing or Chocolate cake with vanilla icing.. They are two different kinds of great. I love both.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    We all hear the holiday songs over and over this month, but sometimes your mind plays tricks on you. What lyric do you always hear wrong even if you know the right words. For me, it's "No Place like home for the holidays" I always hear the lyric "... from Atlantic to Specific... gee the traffic is terrific...."
  16. Drew Dowdell
    Clearance sales for a dead model.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    For the mid engine car, absolutely, should be geared towards HP... But I'd like to see a torquer version, lower top rpm but thicker torque band that starts lower, for use in the Escalade and possibly the CT6.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    Sure, it can be a new Omega (won't that be confusing...). Power it with the 1.6 diesel, 2.0t, and 3.6 in Europe. Add a 3.0t for US and AU.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    Mitsubishi Mirage it is!
  20. Drew Dowdell
    Sure, if you spin it to 18,000 rpm, but you still have no torque. And no one is getting 500hp from 4 liters unless there is some forced breathing going on, so as soon as you do that you have additional complications and weight. A 6.2 liter will have awesome torque off the line while a turbo 4 liter is still waiting to spool up.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    The CT6 already is slated to have a twin-turbo dohc V8 of around 4 to 5 liters. I doubt getting it to 6.2 without a turbo would be that hard.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    That works out to $29.00 or less per Buick sold in China in just 2016..... Plus GM sells a lot more than just Buicks in China. It's barely even a slap on the wrist.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    Not what I meant.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Fine... I'll take an Alpha based Buick mid-size Sedan with a formal roofline. I'll get the scale out of China and Holden. I'm sure the Chinese elite would eat it up.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    Just because everyone else is doing it doesn't mean GM has to. I like their pushrod V8s, I have no problem with them offering both. Pushrod has some distinct advantages over DOHC for packaging. Yes, DOHC may get more horsepower per liter, but pushrod can stuff a lot more liters in there.... and with GM's technology of being able to shut off cylinders, they can get a lot of the efficiency of those smaller displacement engines as well. This DOHC 6.2 sounds like it will be great, but that doesn't change the fact that anywhere this engine fits, a S/C pushrod 7.5 - 8 liter would also fit.
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