I don’t know a ton about foreign motors other than surface level stuff like the 2JZ, Wankel, etc. so please forgive my ignorance outside of US motors.

However, in my eyes, it doesn’t get better than the simplicity and easily available power of the SBC, BBC, and 6BT. What are your all time favorites and why?

  • time_to_reset@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For me it’s the Audi 5.2 TFSI. The engine from the R8, Huracan and several other models.

    It’s in many ways very similar to BMW’s S85, an engine almost all of us love. Both 90° DOHC V10s with the same firing order, almost the same displacement.

    But the main difference is that the Audi engine is strong, reliable and plentiful, yet lighter.

    Designed when VAG was still under leadership of Ferdinand Piech and designed to last, proven by the fact that basically the same engine is still sold new today, 15 years after it first came out and holding tremendous power in the aftermarket.

    I hope to own one of those engines one day. I’ll find something to put it in and enjoy it later.