The V8 ICE What's it all about?

[XFRFred]

As already mentioned, the noise and the torque.


https://youtu.be/FXM_5eXU9rY

Put on some headphones

Edited by XFRFred on Sunday 18th October 12:59

[Mr E]

My V8 is pretty much silent. Doesn’t “dominate the car”.

It simply provides utterly effortless progress.

[hyphen]

XFRFred said:

As already mentioned, the noise and the torque.


https://youtu.be/FXM_5eXU9rY

Put on some headphones

Edited by XFRFred on Sunday 18th October 12:59

A4069 not A4096

[Maxym]

Nah, give me a flat-six, preferably NA.

[Tall_Blk]

The noise and burble. I had a V8 TVR and noise on start up and idle was just sublime. On my second V8 in the form of the 6.2 AMG

[Welshbeef]

Has anyone driven a mapped 4.2 V8 Audi TDI?

They sound good and rapid / 4x4, on public highway if they were in front of your and exploring the performance on offer you’d need a mighty fast car to overtake +120-140mph to boot.

[ddom]

The noise. But concur that an I6 is a better NA road engine for me.

[Galerion]

An easy question to answer. Just watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPWIp0JOHY

If this doesn't evoke any kind of emotion in you then I don't know.

[emperorburger]

I think we all have our favourite V8 engines and often it's the ones we own that we love the most.

For me, nothing beats the experience of owning an old school big block American V8. Yes, the noise is unreal but the fact that the engine is running on carbs with no electronic management means the car feels really alive. Everything from the utter cacophony when starting from cold, the uneven lumpy idle, to it's ability to shake windows in buildings, vibrate the ground you stand on and shoot flames from the exhaust on the overrun is sublime.

I admired the engineering of my V12 XJS and it's turbine smoothness, but in comparison I found that engine completely soulless.

[anonymous-user]

I like the effortless power delivery, The slight hum the Lexus produces, almost feels like an EV.

In the Porsche I love the noise and power delivery. Neither vehicles leave you wanting for more power. They just feel solidly powered (if that makes sense)

[ChocolateFrog]

Noise.

[anonymous-user]

CDB1983 said:

I like the effortless power delivery,

Yup. Anywhere, any gear, any time. A big V8 simply picks up the car and hurls it up the road.

[matchmaker]

ddom said:

The noise. But concur that an I6 is a better NA road engine for me.

Agree with the above. My Daimler 250 V8 sounded lovely, but the tuned 2 litre I6 in my Vitesse sounded awesome!

[fiju]

Can we have more sublime please? I'm not getting tired of reading that word yet.

[baconsarney]

fiju said:

Can we have more sublime please? I'm not getting tired of reading that word yet.

Ok
My decatted Chimaera sounds awesome at 6k rpm, however, fire up the Vantage, and the sound is just mind numbingly sublime...

[aeropilot]

emperorburger said:

For me, nothing beats the experience of owning an old school big block American V8.

[samoht]

Smoothness has been mentioned, it's worth mentioning that a cross-plane V8 is mechanically balanced, so doesn't vibrate and seem harsh/strained when revved, unlike an I4 or V6. And compared to equally smooth I6, V12 or boxer layouts, the V8 is more compact so easier to fit in more cars without unbalancing them. So basically smooth, lots of power and response through the range, and can be put into almost anything.

[Nicks90]

I fell in love with V8 engines due to one specific experience.
An old land rover 90 with a 3.9 efi from a rangerover, mated to a 5 speed manual g/box and Rimmer brothers tubular manifold, Thor intake manifolds and plat panel k&n filter. All mated to a straight through 3" exhaust and Rimmer bro back box.
That thing howled all the way to the red line and sounded like the most glorious symphony of tigers having Steve Irwin sticking his finger up their a@#es. "Angry" just didn't do that induction roar justice.
But off the loud pedal it burbled about beautifully

[gazza285]

Obviously all these Yank V8 engines were not from the Malaise Era, like the 460 Ford, seven and a half litres pumping out a massive 197 horses, or the Olds 403, 185 horses from 6.6L, just what you need to hurl your 2.2 tonne Oldsmobile Toronado to a 0-60 in over twelve seconds.

[aeropilot]

gazza285 said:

Obviously all these Yank V8 engines were not from the Malaise Era, like the 460 Ford, seven and a half litres pumping out a massive 197 horses, or the Olds 403, 185 horses from 6.6L, just what you need to hurl your 2.2 tonne Oldsmobile Toronado to a 0-60 in over twelve seconds.

With one single exception, the Yank V8 died in 1971 until the US horsepower revival kicked off again 20 odd years later.