4 Cylinder 1.5 litre ain't so bad

[240260280z]

http://racingotaku.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/best-f1-engine/

Makes me wish I kept my 1.5 Toyota Echo.

Gotta go out back and season my Pee-30 block.

Edited August 20, 2011 by Blue

[Walter Moore]

I remember those things. They had air to air AND water to air inter-coolers. The thing is the teams had to have a qualifying engine and separate a race engine. The qualifying engine would indeed put out something on the order of 1500 hp, but only for long enough to finish the qualifying run. The race engine put out significantly less than 1/2 the hp of the qualifying engine, but still as often as not they let go before the event was over.

By comparison, the 2.5 liter Offenhauser 4 cylinder engine running 3 atmospheres of boost could develop 1000 hp, without any inter-cooler, and do that for at least 500 miles, occasionally an entire season. But then it was a pure racing engine, not a street motor.