Which is the stongest engine of all time.

 

you put subaru on your poll?

 

So why have you left out Porsche, BMW, Audi/VW, Fiat, Lancia etc?

F

 

There in a different league.

The 3 ive chsoen seem to be the ones who compete against each other and you mist ferrari + lambo

We all know what fiat stands for (Fix.It.Again.Tommorow)

 

I'm glad you asked this question about the stongest engines. In my opinion, stength is one of the cucial aims of engine design. If your engine's not stong, then you don't have any hosepower or toque; and that means you can't go very fast or accelerate very quickly.



I've got a tubo on mine.

 

Voted Cosworth, the standard internals are a lot stronger than the Jap varients.

 

Voted Cossie. Even though they are a 15 (?) year old design they can produce 500+bhp with reliabilty. Evo's still blow up quite easily unless they have had the internals replaced and the same can be said for the scoob

 

oh BTW who voted Subaru?

 

I am sure I read a article in 'fast ford' on a guy who had a escort cossie..He said that after you tune over 330bhp is when internals start to go when driven hard.


Don't know if this is true?

 

The Fiat 1300/1500 SOHC was very strong. It was the first mass produced OHC engine dating from the early 1970's. Was fitted in many cars in the Fiat stable for nearly 20 years, including cars such as Fiat 128 Rallye/Coupe/3P, X1/9 and Lancia Delta. The bottom end was bomb proof with it's 5 bearing crank. In race applications, American Sports Car series etc they used to rev it to 11,000 even 12,000rpm on a completely standard bottom end, not even balancing needed. Top end was where the mods came in.

 

I read an article where BMW in the turbo F1 era were getting 1000bhp/litre from a 100,000 mile run in iron block.

Pretty impressive, but I don't think they were built to last

 

1700 crossflow

Rev it to 10k then change up - 4 quids worth of oil in the sump and never change it

Not failed in 6 years since it was built for the grand total cost of a 24 crate of stella

 

Askew, in the words of a fat hairy dude,"....you took the words right outta my mouth..."

but personally, after a little think, SAAB.... anyone seen Per Eklund's hillclimb car making 1000bhp from a std block? but out of those 3 i'm voting Cossie.

owbow

 

Owain - i thought you'd pipe up when the word crossflow was mentioned

 

or even the 2.0 lump in my volvo 240GL, 207000 miles on it, full of cheapest 20w50 in the world, broken engine mounts, sit her on the limiter from cold for 10 minutes and she STILL won't use a drop of oil! and had the speedo wound to the M of MPH the other day, with a possible display of 120....

 

hehehe ain't even been on scoobynet for months and here i was mate!

how's life?

 

Hooligan

 

Yep

 

i've got a pic of the speedo at 120! but she was too scary at M to take one hand off the wheel!

 

Lets not forget the FIAT twincam. When my (Lancia) Volumex was rebuilt the standard cast crank was SO well balanced it couldnt be improved upon and the same (totally standard) cast crank was used in the works Group A Deltas!

Simon

 

errr and the Briggs and Stratton 3HP range of course....

 

My Tecumse (sp?) engine on my lawnmower has been going for years without an oil change. I think it could be the strongest engine in the world IMHO.

F

 

i had a 1600cc VW water cooled carb fed engine that ran without airfilters and no oil change for over 60,000 miles