NEW 6-cyl AND 4-cyl Nomination thread.

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Okay, evidently there's too many choices. So, we've got new rules.

ONE NOMINATION PER MEMBER. (including me)
Must be 6 Cyl or 4 cyl Gasoline or Diesel engine (can nominate in both categories, or one, if wish be.)
May be race, street, Aircraft, Marine, whatever
May be any configuration, except Radial.
Try giving some good reasons.

All suggestions must be re-submitted.

Current Nominations for 6-cyl:
AMC/Jeep 4.0 L I-6
BMW S54 I-6 (M3 E46, others)
BMW N54 I-6 (335Ci)
BMW M88/S38 I-6
Buick Fireball/3800/3900/GNX V-6 (turbo, supercharged, and N/A variants) (GNX, Many others)
Chevrolet 235 Stovebolt I-6 ('50s/early '60s chevys)
GM LY7 3.6L DOHC/VVT V-6 (CTS, Aura)
Hudson Twin-H Power I-6 (Hornet, Others)
Mercedes-Benz OM603/604 3.0L diesel I/6
Nissan VQ-family V6
Nissan RB-family I-6 (Skyline, Stagea)
Porsche Air-cooled B-6 (911, others)
Peugeot-Renault-Volvo V-6 (DeLorean, Alpine, Others)
Renault 3.0L V-6 (Renault Clio V6)
Toyota JZ-Family I-6 (Supra, others)
TVR AJP6 I-6
VAG 3.2L VSI V-6

Current Nominations for 4-cyl.
BMW M10/S14 I-4
Ford "Pinto" I-4
GM Iron Duke I-4
Honda F20C I-4 (Honda S2000)
Mitsubishi/DSM 4G63T I-4
Nissan SR-Family I-4 (Silvia, others)
Nissan FJ20 I-4
Oldsmobile Quad 4 W41 I-4
Porsche 944-968 I-4
Subaru EJ20 B-4
Toyota 3SGE I-4
VW/Porsche Air-cooled B-4 (VW Beetle, Many others)
VAG twincharge 1.4 I-4
VAG 1.8L I4

NOMINATIONS END ON MONDAY.

I'm also gonna re-do the 4-cyl thread, since people seem to hate that too.
 
Maybe you should change the '2JZ family I6' to just 'JZ family I6' as the 1JZ is also a great Toyota I6 engine aswell in the same family.
 
If it's one nomination per member shouldn't you just nominate one yourself rather than 5 or 6 :odd:.

I nominate the TVR AJP6 again.
 
As much as I must pay tribute to the BMW S38 and S54, the twin turbo N54 is the future of mainstream BMW. I mean c'mon-- the thing makes more torque off idle than the S54 does at peak, weighs less than the iron block M motor, is cheaper to produce and gets better gas milage while doing it.

Besides, it won't be long before the 360-400 hp "BPU" 335i is almost commonplace.

N54 gets my nomination.


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Porsche Flat-6

Perhaps we should have to give reasons for our votes. Otherwise we'll end up with every 6 cyl engine ever produced, like the 4cyl thread which has just turned into a fan-boy fest with a massive chunk of un-remarkable engines in it and no way of 'challenging' peoples reasons for voting. Without discussion a thread becomes just a clinical list with a final vote and no body has learnt anything.
 
Renault 2998 cc V6
24 valve
255 hp/195 kW

As powering the Renaultsport Clio V6.
 
Edit: You know what? Someone else can nominate the AMC engine. I give it to the PRV, found in various cars, many of them, oddly enough, not front-engine..
 
///M-Spec
As much as I must pay tribute to the BMW S38 and S54, the twin turbo N54 is the future of mainstream BMW. I mean c'mon-- the thing makes more torque off idle than the S54 does at peak, weighs less than the iron block M motor, is cheaper to produce and gets better gas milage while doing it.

Besides, it won't be long before the 360-400 hp "BPU" 335i is almost commonplace.

N54 gets my nomination.


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that was my nomination! :grumpy: 👍

ok, then i'll have to nominate the
BMW M88/S38 I-6
 
My 4-clynomination is the:

F20C From the Honda S2000 again.

reason for nominating this motor is because it is a 2.0l motor that produces 250hp which is quite incredible. It comes with VTEC of course 👍 :)
 
Oldsmobile Quad 4 W41, the engine that showed Detroit (or Lansing, anyway) could take on the imports in terms of a high-revving, multivalve NA four. With a few updates it'd probably still be a world-beater today.
 
Probably should say what I Nominated and why....

VW/Porsche Air-cooled B-4

  • same basic design since the late '40s
  • World's most Tunable Engine (from 40 to 400HP)
  • Actually sounds pretty good
  • reliable
  • fitted multiple models and makes
  • the genesis of that Porsche six. (and was offered in 911s as the 912)

Hudson "Twin H-Power" I-6

  • first true "Stock Car Special" engine
  • Sounds FABULOUS in race tune. (Why do you think they called it the Fabulous Hudson Hornet?)
  • Dominated stock car racing 'till the '55 Hemis.
  • found its way into most Hudson models
 
The engines I'm rooting for have already been nominated again, so I have nothing to add, except for perhaps this information:
*Why you should vote for the M10/S14*
*Why you should vote for the M88/S38*

Also, Jim, I think you'd be happier doing this if you just ran it the way you want to run it, and let the whiners whine. :indiff:

From what I saw, there was no reason why you should have had to close the 4-cylinder voting. Of course, what's done is done, so let's just move on.
 
I guess I got overflustered. Still, I want to serve everyone as well as I possibly can. It started when YSSMAN P.M.'d me this morning, and I guess I panicked.
 
6 cyl nomination: AMC/Jeep 4.0 L I-6. A damn near bulletproof engine that was used for 43 years in numerous applications. Sadly, it will be replaced in the Wrangler by a 3.8 L V6.
4 cyl nomination: The GM Iron Duke. It wasn't the most powerful or sophisticated 4 cyl ever made, but it's another one of those "never die" motors.
 
Well, before you restart the voting for the 4-cylinder engines, I'd actually like to make one small suggestion, if you weren't thinking of doing this already -- post the 4-cylinder poll and 6-cylinder poll in two different threads, instead of going for a "multiple choice" checkbox poll. That way, people can't accidentally or intentionally vote for two 4-cylinders or two 6-cylinders, preventing any further complaints of "foul play." :)
 
Wolfe2x7
From what I saw, there was no reason why you should have had to close the 4-cylinder voting. Of course, what's done is done, so let's just move on.
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Exactly........ starting again was just silly. If best cars threads were handled like this it would have been restarted 10 times.

Nissan FJ20 deserves a mention but I probably wont vote for it.
 
VIPERGTSR01
Exactly........ starting again was just silly. If best cars threads were handled like this it would have been restarted 10 times.
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Now, we shouldn't necessarily blame Jim for it. We don't know how many angry PMs he got, or how "graphic" the comments in them were.

Unless you weren't blaming him. :)
 
six cylinder engine.
mercedes OM603/ 604 3.0 liter turbo/ NA diesel engine. one just had a twin cam mutlivalve head but was otherwise the same block and pistons and all that.
capable of 500000 miles easily. they had no redline, but of course their diesel so once your out of the torque range its really no use revving.

four cylinder nomination.

VAG twin charge 1.4. power of a warm 2.0 and fuel economy of a miserly 1.2 liter.
 

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