Now that we've looked into various type of engines being built, it will also be cool for us to look into engines being designed for muscle cars. Initially, muscle car engines were made to produce maximum torque on the street or in drag racing competition. The term muscle cars itself describes a rear wheel drive mid- size car with a large, powerful V8 engine with a special trim.
There have been many arguments over the greatest engines of the muscle car era. Some were tuned for horsepower (top speed) while others were tuned for torque (acceleration). Still others were seriously under-rated to keep a low profile (imagine that today) and keep insurance agents guessing. Muscle car was and still is the choice of many Americans and Australians till today mainly because of the maximum capacity of their engines. Do comment more on this folks and I've derived a sample video clip from another website on muscle car engine in my next blog. Do check it out and let me know what you guys think of it and I shall leave you with this for now..With Regards Nivin..
2 comments:
Muscle cars are terribly overrated if you ask me.Whats the point in having such a huge engine when the performance isn't that outstanding compared to a 2liter turbocharged engine? Japanese technology rocks,just look at the evo8 compared to the murcielago. 2liter dohc compared to a 6.2 liter V12. The evo keeps up all the way although way underpowered compared to the lambo. What more is 3 times cheaper.And you can drive the evo to do marketing,get to work and still do awesome track times.
Muscle cars are for rich blokes with no sense of ingenuity or technology.Period.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y6lIaGZA4w
~madman speaks
Great details into how muscle cars work.Thanks..have always wondered about it...its interesting to think about the cars popular those days...
As far as i know,muscle car engines were made as the crave for power increased in US and Aus those days.Though its really cool to have these cars back as it brings back the old school power image, its really expensive.Besides that, the capacity is not high enough.Although it has a powerful V8 engine, I would still prefer a sports car...
Cheers,
sham
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