Show those engines

[Populuxe]

The engines (motor in the case of Tesla) are the heart of these cars. So let's show them off. I'll start.

1953 Fiat 8V Supersonico. It's a sweet little 1996cc 70° V8. I love the gold headers.

 

[Populuxe]

1973 Nissan Skyline GT-R S20 engine. 1989cc, 160 hp inline-6, a straight development of the GR8 engine used in the Prince R380 race car. The S20 and S30 engines were fitted to the GT-B sedan, both the hakosuka and kenmeri Skyline GT-Rs and the Fairlady R432. One of the truly great Japanese engines.

 

[Populuxe]

1968 Lancia Fulvia Coupé Rallye 1.6 HF. I love this engine. It's 1584cc and produces 132 hp making it the most powerful Fulvia engine. It's a narrow-angle V4 set at a bizarre 12°53'28" angle. Despite being a V, the cylinders are cast n a single block, and the engine is tilted at 45° for a lower hood. Whether the engine is double-overhead cam or single-overhead cam is entirely how you look at it. There are only two cams compared to four in a typle DOHC V-engine so it should be considered a SOHC engine, but one cam operates the intake valves and the other operates the exhaust valves, just like on a DOHC engine. The cams operate the valves on the near cylinder directly and on the far valves through rocker arms. What all this accomplishes is an engine much shorter than an inline-4, but much narrower than a V-4. This is about as compact as a four cylinder engine can get.

 

[VXR]

Love the detailed explanation of the engine.

 

[ykiki]

1975 Fiat X 1/9

1986 Audi #2 Audi Sport Quattro S1

1988 Lamborghini Countach LP5000 QV

 

[ViscousTraction]

These aren't the best model quality since the photos weren't taken in Forzavista.

XJ220






360 Challenge Stradale


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[Populuxe]

1984 Opel Manta 400. Opel commissioned 245 DOHC 16 valve heads from Cosworth to fit on their 2-liter 4-cylinder block. It didn't produce enough power to make it competitive. Since the heads were already made, Opel did a little Frankenstein engineering. They overbored the block, fitted the crankshaft from the 2.3 liter diesel engine, put the Cosworth head on it and ended up with a 2.4 liter engine that was very competitive.

 

[ykiki]

I played a little over the weekend and took a few engine pics:

Ferrari 250LM

McLaren P1

Datsun 2000

Dodge Charger R/T

Ford Escort RS1600

Ford Shelby GT500

Ford Transit SuperVan

Mercedes-Benz 300SL Coupe'

Mercury Coupe

Ford GT40 MKII

Unlike @Populuxe Cowboy, I don't have any interesting stories.

 

[Bastet]

4G63 in the Galant Vr4. Unfortunately I don't think any of the Evos have opening hoods..

Twin Supercharged 5.3 V8 in the Aston Martin Vantage V600

 

[ykiki]

Adding the 1968 Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale. I find this to be one of the most beautiful cars in the game, with an engine to match.

 

[Populuxe]

1953 Ferrari 500 Mondial. Despite how it looks, it's a 2.0L 4-cylinder engine from Ferrari, just about the rarest engine they've ever built. They decided to try it because the 4-cylinder had better torque than a V12 of the same size, which would be especially helpful when accelerating out of corners on tight race tracks.

 

[Populuxe]

Spoiler: Blizzard Mountain barn find

1970 International Harvester Scout 800A. The game doesn't specify, but this is clearly a V8. IH offered a V8 in two sizes: 266 cid (4.4 L) and 304 cid (5.0 L). Despite AMC also offering a 304 V8 at the same time, the IH 304 is not an AMC engine. This being Forza, I'm betting this is the larger of the two engines. Considering the sort of hard work and abuse these engines saw, I doubt any IH engine bay looked this good for long.

 

[ykiki]

Bentley GT3
One of my favorite cars - especially after seeing these beasts in person during the Pirelli World Challenge races at Long Beach and Sonoma. Hearing the grunt of the Bentley engine reverberating off the tall buildings around Long Beach is quite an experience.

 

[ykiki]

Highlights from the January Rockstar Car Pack - including the Barn Find, which I've hidden under the spoiler tag.

2016 Bentley Bentayga

1972 Ford Falcon XA GT-HO

1987 Nissan Skyline GTS-R (R31)

2015 Radical RXC Turbo

2015 Volvo V60 Polestar

Spoiler: Barn Find

Volvo 1800E

I couldn't "see under the hood" for the BMW i8 and the Rockstar Trophy Truck.

 

[ykiki]

I picked up a Ford Capri over the weekend.

 

[ykiki]

Back with this month's DLC engines...

2017 Aston Martin DB11

2016 Cadillac ATS-V

1985 Holden HDT VK Commodore Group A

2016 Honda Civic Type-R

1970 Honda S800 (sorry - a bit on the light side)

1990 Renault Alpine GTA Le Mans

2016 Vauxhall Corsa VXR

 

[ykiki]

A couple of updates from this month's Forzathon:

Lola T70

Ferrari 599XX

 

[GMHV8]

I don't know that much about BMWs in general, but the sound of a BMW straight 6 is music to the ears. This is the 3.8 litre from the 1995 M5, a car which in my opinion has aged really well, a timeless design.