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Mr. Luddite[_4_]

On 4/2/2018 7:44 PM, Alex wrote:
wrote:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 17:54:49 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

You probably are right. Pretty soon we'll be seeing one liter engines
zipping "funny cars" down the dragstrip!
They are getting a 3 ton truck up to 60 in 6 seconds with a 213 Cu/In
engine. In the 80s that would have taken a high performance 350 or
400. It would have been a 427 in the 60s.
Engines have come a long way.

My SUV has 269 ci (4.4L) and will run 0-60 in 4.7 seconds with twin
turbos.Â* It's just under 5100 lbs.Â* Amazing power for a heavy vehicle.

I think we'll probably see more and more turbos as stock items and
engines will continue to get smaller in displacement. They have become
very reliable and a turbo with modest boost yields a lot of HP for cheap
money while increasing MPG overall.

Nice thing about a turbo is that if you don't "get on it" all the time,
you really aren't stressing the engine much.