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Originally Posted by BrokenVert
Its a shame that we are witnessing the demise of the Aspirated Engine. FI is awesome and better in many ways, but there is somthing about it...just like a stick.
The fall of the Audi V8 is easily just as tragic as the loss of the M3's V8. For shame CAFE Standards...for shame.
Although I do love the sound of my screaming I6 between 4500 and 6500. Just enough turbo woosh and just enough engine...once you start hitting >6500 the engine really hates you for it and lets you know it with a less than stellar noise.
But that NA V8, sings all the way to redline.
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Really?
My engine LOVES high revs and I haven't heard a better sounding engine in this price class, regarding it's smooth mechanical sound.
It sounds as if it could handle another 1000rpm easily.
That said, yeah, the power does fall off above 6000rpm, but that's the price we pay for wanting all that torque available below 2000k rpm.
I'd easily give up some low rpm torque to get more torque up high.
The torque curve of these modern turbo's sure does give excellent low rpm power, but they suffer high rpm power, very unlike traditional turbos that start to scream at mid to high rpm but lack low rpm torque.
I'm hoping the new valvetronic turbo setup helps improve high rpm torque.
A larger single turbo should give us more up top.
A sequential setup with a small and large turbo would be the shiznit.