Welcome to the forum.My first post! :beer:
Because Chrysler uses an overhead cam, 24-valve design where ours is overhead 12 valve. You don't get to play with that extra torque and horsepower from the extra valves until the engine gets wound up above 3000 or so RPM.Why is our 3.5 G6 only 220? And what is it at the wheels?
So it works to about the same at the wheels but the g6 is lighter so its a win for the G6?!Welcome to the forum.
Thanks!
Because Chrysler uses an overhead cam, 24-valve design where ours is overhead 12 valve. You don't get to play with that extra torque and horsepower from the extra valves until the engine gets wound up above 3000 or so RPM.
We get somewhere in the 180s at the wheels.
~ MattInSoCal
Thanks that helps a lot. Can we use "oversized" valves to make some of that extra-ness up?just as a little side note (incase it doesnt make sense cause i used to not get it when i was first into cars) more valves = more air coming in and easier to push out = engine breaths better = more hp
Mike
Ha, reading that back it wasn't so clear. So by "extra-ness" i ment is there a way to make up for the the 12 valves compared to the 24 valves.not sure what you mean by "extra-ness" haha, but an oversized valve refers to the valve stem, being that if your valve guide is too large, you could buy an oversized valve instead of machining the head, although few companies make o.s. valves, so in most cases the head would need to be machined.
Mike
Damn it! I didn't see the "lol" part and my car blew up.just dump play sand into the gas tank... that'll port it... then on the next tank you dump in talcum powder... that takes care of the polishing. LOL
ha but sadly I kinda wish that would work.
