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The Northstar is a good engine. It flows more (4 valves per cylinder), has 4 cam VVT, has a girdle main cap design. It's arguably better than the LS/LT in many ways. Perfect for setting the category rev limit at 8500rpm or 9000rpm. Quote:
That's a guy who loves Chevy engines saying that. Just sayin'. If pushrod engines are so great, why was Chevrolet's Indy Racing League engine based on the Northstar and not based on the small block or LS?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmo...Indy_V8_engine There is some relationship between the Oldsmobile Aurora engine (3.5-4.0L Northstar derivative) and the Aurora custom block & heads used on the Chevrolet small blocks from 2003 locally that is not totally clear. |
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The Northstar should have replaced the Chevrolet small block if it was designed properly. The advantages of DOHC and 4xVVT for optimising power and economy is definitive, not to mention the increased cylinder head flow and stronger block design. ---------- Edit - To clarify, neither Chevrolet nor Ford stand for excellence in engineering, merely "not as bad as Dodge"! It is clear as day that a category engine needed to be a neutral engine like a Nissan VK56 (Nelson Hartley loves them, they are great, basically the same as what he would design from a clean sheet) or Toyota 2UR. Having a non-neutral engine as a category engine is a dumb idea and was never going to be acceptable. The category should have been straight over to see Todd Kelly to get a fleet of Nissan VK56s (or VK50s or nice 10,000rpm VK40s like those Hartley NZ speedway engines!). Last edited by V8 Fireworks; 1 Nov 2023 at 16:48. |
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With the category ECU in place, VVT may well not be an option, so 4 valve, quad cam engines aren't able to show some of the benefits normally expected of them with the rev limit in place - so in a racing series with a rev limit and no VVT, going with a quad cam engine was always going to take a lot of work to get parity with a pushrod engine. Fair play to all concerned that the differences appear to be very small and the transient dyno / torque sensors regime should quantify what if any changes should be made. |
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Probably even more unfortunate for those middle-aged chaps with both balls and boobs, who are now likely clammering to get off the Inclusive Bus, because despite some mild body dismorphia, they actually know which camp they are in
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It’s the latest body style from the Ford factory
So the Mustang being run here next year and/or beyond will not resemble the latest body style. You might have thought the development of the new model might have had wind tunnel testing, so the Windshear experiment could be validated against known credible data with context. |
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...and who designed the Team18 Gen 2 steering racks that routinely broke too, unlike Randle's assessment of Tickford steering racks being trouble-free. It seems like Tickford Engineering has solved the matter and produced a properly engineered item! |
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