file.newsgroup.cars.103082 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (eliot)
Subject: Re: MR2 - noisy engine.
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Andrew A. Spencer) writes:
>nice theory. too bad the MR2's never came with a four cylinder over 2.0
>liters. More like 1.6. Or did they? were the nonturbo MR2II's 2.2 or
>some such?
foot in mouth again, drew. the first generation mr 2's were 1.6's which
were very smooth. i'd be real surprised if the original poster was talking
about a 1st generation car. the second generation cars were 2.2 for the
non turbo and 2.0 for the turbo. i drove the non turbo 2.2 and calling it
unpleasant is to be kind to it..
>I also understand that anyone using balancing shafts on four cylinders, must
>pay SAAB a royalty for using their patented design..like Porsche's 3.0 I4...
wrong and wrong. mitsubishi owns the patent, which has since expired
which is why everybody with a shred of integrity is putting balance
shafts into their big 4's.. the notable exception is nissan.. and only
for the us market suckers. i guess we need to write to C&D and start
telling them to publish graphs for engine vibration over rpm. then
you'll see usenet discussions of the form: engine A has peak
vibrations 3 dB less than engine B, therefore engine A is better than
engine B.
1/2 :-)
eliot