Re: [DMCForum] Question for Martin OT

[Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Due to fuel costs and emissions controls, it has been in the 
manufacturers interests' to produce smaller and smaller engines that run 
more efficiently. That's why our smaller engines put out 
disproportionately more power per unit displacement than US engines. I 
don't think they're cheaper. It's just the direction manufacturers have 
been forced into (and no bad thing)

An example are the car diesels. By far and away the best diesel engines 
come from France or Germany. Why? Because there've been tax breaks on 
derv for years encouraging the use of diesel cars on the continent.

Martin

buickhawk wrote:

>  Martin,  In your opinion does it cost more to build a high rpm 
>(6000+ rpm) engine than a low rpm(4000- rpm)engine?  Here in the 
>states, I think it is cheaper to build a low rpm engine.  If it is 
>cheaper to build a high rpm engine what have manufacturers done to 
>get the cost down?
>
>Denis
>#2305
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