Your top five favorite engines!

[A_Harman]

Originally Posted By: artificialist
Originally Posted By: A_Harman

Torque Engineering V12


I would like to read more about this engine and see photos. Google doesn't give me good results.


You won't find much on it. Torque Engineering went bankrupt in 2002 after having sold 12 of these engines for high-performance boats. It was an 859-cubic-inch all-aluminum V12 that was built up to 1150-horsepower, naturally aspirated on 93-octane gasoline. I mention it, because I was project engineer on that engine for 5 years, and it's definitely one of my favorites.

 

[Drew99GT]

Originally Posted By: dwcopple

Nissan SR20DE


Cripe, how could I forget! I'd have to say the SR20DE is one of the top 3 4 cylinder engines ever made! Maybe the best. One of my buddies had a 92 SE-R Sentra - that thing was a pocket rocket.

 

[Win]

Jaguar V12 - turbine smooth, easy to work on;
Jaguar AJ-6 - robust, durable, easy to work on;
Jaguar AJ-V8 - smooth, very fuel efficient;
GM-LSx - perhaps the greatest V8 engine, ever: lightweight, ultra compact, powerful;
Pontiac V8 - easy to work on in their day.

edit: we're talking IC car engines right? Because the Packard Merlin or a Wright R3350 would be on the list otherwise.

 

[DR Racing]

VW type one. Light weight and HP potential.

Honda B series VTEC. Rev till there is no tomorrow with a huge after market.

VW TDi diesel. Killer fuel mileage.

SB chevy. Will never die.

Air cooled 911. Air cooled tech taken to the limit. Dan

 

[Drew99GT]

Originally Posted By: Win

edit: we're talking IC car engines right? Because the Packard Merlin or a Wright R3350 would be on the list otherwise.


If we're talking any engine, the Pratt & Whitney R2800 is the best engine EVAR.

 

[440Magnum]

1) Big-block Mopar- torque with excellent reliability

2) Jeep 4.0- brutally reliable and long-lived, best offroading engine ever with a torque curve as flat as most turbo-diesel engines.

3-5)Ford Modular, modern Chrysler Hemi, GM- LS series (tie)- superb modern engines in all respects.

honorable mention 1: Mopar A/LA series smallblocks. Uber-reliable, second only in longevity to the smallblock Chevy (in production from 1957 through ~2001).

Honorable mention2: Oldsmobile 455- SHOULD have been GM's heavy truck engine, since it easily outclassed the Chevy 454 in every respect.

 

[kkreit01]

Humm? I guess I will only chose from experience (ones I've owned):

1. Modern VVT 5.7 Hemi: torque monster
2. Ford modular 3V: easy to mod, and sounds great on Magnaflows

3. Ford 3.5 Duratec: diverse, sounds great stock
4. Dodge 318 Magnum: bullet-proof, lots of torque (for the era)
5. Chrysler 3.0 (early 90s): great power/weight ratio in their smaller cars (had one in Daytona IROC & Sundance Duster).

 

[Silver02ex]

Honda B-Series. I have to put the B18 in the Type R as probably my favorite.

If we are talking outside of car:

GE-90

 

[TurboLuver]

5.9 Cummins

Jeep 4.0

BBC

SBC

Ford Modular/ GM LS

 

[440Magnum]

Originally Posted By: kkreit01


5. Chrysler 3.0 (early 90s): great power/weight ratio in their smaller cars (had one in Daytona IROC & Sundance Duster).


That's a Mitsubishi engine. It has a wonderful and reliable bottom end, and also a very long-lived timing belt system... but it had horrific top end problems. It was notorious for valve guides coming lose and riding up and down with the valve the head resulting in massive oil consumption, as well as excessive oil consumption past the piston ring pack. They finally did get most of those issues sorted out, but there was a time in the 90s when if you saw blue smoke coming out of a tailpipe in traffic, odds were 100:1 that it was coming from a Mitsubishi 3.0-powered Chrysler vehicle. The version that went in the Dodge Stealth and Mitsubishi 3000GT had different heads and pistons and therefore none of these problems.

 

[sdan27]

1. Cummins 855
2. Cummins 8.3L
3. T444E
4. DT466A thru E
5. CNH 6.7L

 

[OVERKILL]

In no particular order:

-Ford Modular
-Ford Windsor
-Ford Y-Block
-Ford BOSS 429
-Ford 427 SOHC
-Chrysler 426 HEMI
-Chevrolet LS7 (IMHO, the best engine GM has ever made)
-BMW S62

And if we aren't just talking about piston engines:
-Pratt and Whitney J58

 

[CROWNVIC4LIFE]

Ford 4.6 Modular [had several]
Ford 302
Caddy 472
Caddy 425
Chevy 305

All costed me next to nothing to maintain and I put alot of miles on each one of them.

 

[PF52]

GM's Electro-Motive Division 567 and 645 diesel locomotive engines.

 

[hattaresguy]

Duesenberg supercharged straight 8. The most powerful American production motor for over 25 years

Rolls Royce Merlin V12

Mercedes/AMG M120 V12 highly modified for use in the Zonda R.

Ferrari Testarossa V12. Nothing screams like a stack of Webers!

Bugatti Type 51 with its twin overhead cam straight 8, supposedly inspired by Duesenberg.

 

[tom slick]

Toyota 22r

VW Type 1 1600

Allison T56

GE F110-129

GE F101-102

J58 and J79 fans: I watched the last active USAF J58 and J79 engines leave our shop for mothballing. I've had conversations with the guy who was in charge of mothballing the J58 engine program for good in 1997. I've also watched both run at test cell.

 

[ls1mike]

Hmmm,

Any LSX 4.8, 5.3, 5.7, 6.0, 6.2 LS1 LS2 LS3...you get the idea

GM 3800 or 3.8

SB Chevy

BB Chevy

Mopar 2.2/2.5 Turbo (You said favorite, not the best)

Honorable mention:


The Ford Mod Motor, it is a very good engine

Any Fairbanks Morse diesel. Got my love for those while serving on submarines

 

[rg200amp]

Ford Modular
VW I-5
VW W-16
Chrysler I-6 4.0L

 

[subiedriver]

1) Cummins 5.9
2) Ford 302
3) Chevy 350
4) Chevy 396
5) Chrysler 426 Hemi

 

[CBR.worm]

Japanese V8's - refined, broad powerband, sound good, love to rev, last forever.

Modern American V8's - torque, efficiency (for what they are)

Nissan VG/VQ - smooth, strong, reliable, rev happy.

BB Chevy - low RPM torque, sound of a big block

SB Chevy - limitless build options - have it your way.