Most people buying 500 horsepower engines aren’t as concerned with that.
Gas prices won’t stop them, it will just cost more to do it
BMW doesn't impress me that much, Ford little more - BUT - if Cat is using it, its got my attention. GDI "shouldn't be" any more unreliable than anything else, but in these days of shit engineering, the proof will be in the pudding. I'm not a particular fan of turbocharged gasoline engines, but they "can" be OK if designed carefully.
Thanks, I’ll check this out. I’ve never dealt with this before.
Gotta agree with you there, Zorb. I ran a big BMW with the twin turbo 4.4 liter. It was definitely a rocket ship.
Having owned an E39 M5, E46 M3, E36 M3, and E30 M3, don’t even get me started on BMWs and repair costs or even part costs.
Yes, no, maybe...
My new to me work truck has a 3.5L twin turbo Ecoboost. It is a lot more responsive than the 5.7L HEMI in my Ram. It ha just over 111k on it and as of right now it runs great.
Yes, no, maybe...
He's certainly right about the issues - but they've all been solved for well nigh 100 years now. Yea - traditional gasoline engine design won't cut it - those engineers need to go have a chat with the boys in the diesel division. If they're still using 2 rings plus 1 oil ring with that kind of pressure/use, of course they're going to get substandard results, etc, etc, blah, blah...
Of course, the real solution is to stop fooling around with gasoline engines to start with and use diesels from the get-go! That's my solution to the world's problems!
Obviously not if they are indeed having these kinds of problems. I'm not a mechanical engineer by any means, but "from where I sit" it sure looks like the same kind of thing is going on in that field as is going on in mine (computer hardware/software). In my field, there is so much crap being put out where the fundamentals are being COMPLETELY ignored that it stopped being funny years ago. I used to say that it was obvious that a shit ton of software was written by code monkeys that didn't pass Computer Science-101. Now I'm convinced that much of it was written by idiots that didn't even TAKE CS-101, never mind comprehending the basics or passing the course! Just basic concepts that "everybody" knows to avoid certain problems that infest much of modern code. I would have been fired for cause if I had ever written code as bad as some that I see every day.
