The mother of all L-6 engines.
roducing up to 385 horsepower and 900 pound-feet of clean diesel torque
Posted on 09/06/2018 1:25:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
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If you did much towing, the Ford I6 was much better than the small V8. It had massive low-end torque.
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I bought a 70 nova in high school with a straight 6. I built a 454 gmc truck engine with the tall deck. When time came to yank out the straight 6 I took bets on how long it would run with a brick on the gas pedal after draining the coolant and oil. The longest bet was maybe three minutes. It ran almost 20. It was winter time. It locked up. During the time it ran it through a rod and still ran. After the show it was going in the garage. We hit the key for giggles and it started up again.
Gone the way of the Pontiac straight 8.
There are no high performance, racing, sport or luxury front wheel drive cars. Some are all wheel drive but none just front wheel drive. I wonder why?
I had an old f150 with that fine old 300 six. That truck went almost 700k miles. Had the non Fowler inserts but ran fine. The frame finally rusted out.
The mother of all L-6 engines.
roducing up to 385 horsepower and 900 pound-feet of clean diesel torque
Good story.
Forever 153624
I loved the old Dodge 225.
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Most front drive cars drive quirkey, and they are frightfully costly to repair.
My wife has an all wheel drive Escape that is pleasant to drive, but when a piece of newspaper blocked the Trans cooler, it cost $4000+ to fix it!
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Toyota's 2JZ GTE Turbo I6 engine was the base for many garage hobbyists in their quest to be a part of the "1000 hp Supra" club.
Front wheel only cars are limited to 300 HP. After that, the torque steer is too much.
That animation has the inline cylinders firing in pairs, as though it were a V. Did the old inline sixes fire like that? I never actually checked it out. I assumed that the cylinders each fired sequentially; but not in inline order. My ‘63 Chebby 3/4T 6 cyl. pick-em-up was a real workhorse.
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I have a 1.6L Mazda 323 that I use for a runaround car.
Driving it in the rain is insane.
Driving it in loose gravel is guaranteed to scare you to death.
But 28 MPG is hard to pass up.
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The article mentions GM putting out a straight 6 in 2002. I have one in my Envoy. Yeah, peppy little motor.
Freegards
Oooooh! Am I ever embarrassed! That animation is NOT firing in pairs. I hope I just had TEMPORARY insanity.
A crate in line 6 will go in the project CJ7.
The engine was blown when I got it a few years ago.
As much as I would love an AMC V8, they’re just too high.
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The Buick 225 V6 was a little but peppy motor.
But Chevrolet had straight sixes from (I think) about 1929 until 1954. Ford started producing I6es in the 1960s, and had them even in the Mustang body. I had one of the I6 F150s for 15 years, a much better engine than the V6, IMHO.
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