Straight 6 engine animation

[wackyworldvideos34]

use in ram heavy duty via 6.7 litre cummins diesel.

[SparkDischarge]

@GarrettKeetley There is nothing about being an inline package that makes more torque.

[Somai82]

These are the most stable and balanced engines right?

[SparkDischarge]

@Somai82 They are half way to perfection, V12.

[seth570123]

@Somai82 Yes, straight/ inline 6 AND horizontally opposed/ flat/ boxer 6 engines are all naturally perfectly balanced. V12s and H12s are also perfectly balanced since they are simply two straight 6s/ two H6s put together.

[wackyworldvideos34]

@Somai82 yes for a practical engine, but i8, i10,i12, v16, v12 an others can be rigged to be just as balanced, but impractical due to size and/or length, for most applications. i6 provides balance, and if sized correctly for the vehicle, great efficiency.

[bsharp8256]

My 1963 Ford Falcon convertible has a 170 straight six in it, and if it was run at least bi-weekly it would probably last until the second coming without breaking down. The thing sat for 22 years and it started (and still runs!) with only a minor tuneup.

[mitsuevo8mr]

toyota supra jajajajaja the best

[kddcc]

Im glad my jeep has a 4.0 I-6.

it is a great engine i love it!

[1liketowatchhonda]

ford's in australia have straight 6's. there a 4L engine and a turbo option is avaiable.

[RTRVII]

mechanical engineering FTW!

[PistolPete2]

Inline sixes must have a throw for each connecting rod on the crankshaft,

whereas V-6's & V-8's have two connecting rods on each throw. This makes

the V conviguration much more attractive. I have never really understood

why V-4's are not used. They are beautiful sounding engines and very small.

[SparkDischarge]

@PistolPete2 Because V4 are odd firing.

[nwfklan]

inline 6 + turbo = <3

[GeekUltra]

I have a 1959 Ford Fairlane 232 Inline 6 with a three on the tree.. the thing is a monster to try and drive XD

[DarkHour404]

2jz supras run like this right?

[NoFanSLand]

@DarkHour404 yes, all supras had inline6 the 4M-E, 5-Mge,7M-GTE, 1G-GTE, 1JZ-GTE, 2JZ-GTE. Also are many of the nissan skylines, R31, R32, R33, R34 had either the RB20, RB25 or RB26. The new GT-R has a V6 (LAME! :( ) based off the 370Z.

[xXxmidgexXx]

Dude, how did you make this? Looks fairly simple.

[TheRenalicious]

@xXxmidgexXx 3dsmax, nothing more

[santa914]

Have the famous 300ci in my 82 f100 love that motor, so much torq

[toufelhunden1]

Best inline 6 ever made.. 2JZ-GTE, hands down. Better than the Nissan RB25 or 26

[azlizalinah]

Volvo XC90 3.2 uses the Inline 6

[DZeze]

best inline 6 ever made: RB26dett, skyline GT-R.

[stevenmorookian16]

@DZeze no actually the ford 300 c.u. 4.9 liter straight 6 is way better? Can your puny little skyline pull 10,000 pounds easily? I think not!

[CorvusCasull]

I would have to agree that the ford 300-6 is one of the most durable and long lived gasoline engines made, but so are all of the low-tech, low revving straight six engines designed in the 60s. A straight six can be made to fill just about any application, from powering race and sport cars to moving 20 ton cranes to and from a job site. I suppose the same could be said of a V8, but I personally consider the I-6 to be a more stout and less complicated design.

[flikka87]

I have a opel omega 2.6 l6, the best car I have ever owned, superb engine

[thing503]

If it's balanced then why did you put counterweights on it?? wasn't that the upside to v12's and straight g's was the lack of a need for counterweights?

[TheRenalicious]

@thing503

Counter weights are needed to offset the weight of the connecting rods and such. What I meant by balanced is the significant lack of secondary harmonics, etc.

[thing503]

@TheRenalicious well yeah, but I thought that that was only with certain applications, I thought that a straight 6 or V12 was perfectly balanced and did not require the use of counterweights.

[SparkDischarge]

@thing503 Because you locally balance the engine. If the crankshaft distorts in the least, then global balancing won't work correctly.

[stevenmorookian16]

I would take the older inline 6 f150's over the v8 f150's any day of the week!!

[E34BMW535i]

i hope bmw never stops making the inline 6. they are the best engines available. they sound great, too.  i have one (see my username).

[stevenmorookian16]

@E34BMW535i haha yeah i love the sound of a raging inline 6, my dads 1995 f150 has a 4.9 liter strait 6, although it may not be very fast, it sure can pull A LOT of weight!! That truck hardly feels when we are pulling our 5900 lb. bobcat on our 1500 lb trailer with the bed full of scrap metal. Not to mention that engine still runs great.

[jonsen2k]

The reason for why manufacturers dont make many inline 6 engines anymore is space and cost.

Most cars have transversly mounted engines, and as far as i know, only volvo has placed a i6 engine transversly. V6 saves space, and is reasonably easy to mount the wrong way (transversly). Which is cheaper.

Real shame though.

[tohtorigyro]

gotta love bmw.

[VALsacount2]

I hate how so many cars are trans(sexual)versely mounted.

[jonsen2k]

@VALsacount2

Me to.

It's a bitch to work on, and is just plain wrong. =p

[seth570123]

@jonsen2k Suzuki transversly mounted an I6 once in some weird little car they went on a joint venture with Chevrolet on, in the late 90s or early 2000s... Ah, here it is: 2000-2006 GM Magnus, A.K.A.: Chevrolet Epica, Chevrolet Evanda, Daewoo Evanda, Formosa Magnus, and Suzuki Verona (name depending on what country it was being sold in).

[SorsanSuuriAfro]

Straight six is simply the best! RB26DETT and 2JZ are only few examples of that.

[Aqualeader5]

Too bad they're limited use now they were more reliable and easy to work on and I would pay extra for inline-6 over v6

[AWDfreak]

It's a real shame the inline-6 isn't used by many manufacturers anymore....

[dvdprui]

@AWDfreak yeah...jeep, bmw, mercedes, that's about it...

[AWDfreak]

Mercedes? Are you talking about their truck division?

Jeep has stopped the production of the inline-6 :(

BMW is currently the only manufacturer that uses the inline-6 layout for passenger cars from what I know. (the Cummins Turbo Diesel on the Dodge Ram doesn't count)

[priman0cte]

Volvo does too, and Ford uses a straight-6 in a single model, although i dont remember, wich... TVR uses one too, for their T350... But that's about it... Mercedes used them until 1997-98.

Hope this helps

[MrSloika]

@AWDfreak That's because they are generally too long to mount transversely in FWD applications.

[AWDfreak]

@MrSloika Yes. Most cars these days are FWD, and an inline-6 is just too long for that...

[epistte]

@AWDfreak It isn't used because of the packaging problems with a long narrow engine. Only BMW continues to offer I-6 engines in the US, but Audi has a I-5.

[Jrhoney]

@AWDfreak Ford still uses them for the Australian market.

[AWDfreak]

@Jrhoney There's a lot to envy about that's from Australia. I wish we got that straight-6 in the USA.

[wackyworldvideos34]

@AWDfreak yup

[artilistic]

its the little brother of the v12 and ten times better gas mileage!

[madman9515]

jeep six r really great. i got three jeeps for those engines lol

[bsumattallica]

i have a straight 6 in my 40 chevy. I agree though madman, my fathers wrangler had the straight 6. it was just incredible

[madman9515]

full of torque bsumattallica. i wonder if they can put two of them together like the v8 busa engine

[onehot01civic]

Im buying a 75 nova tomorrow s6!

[Hapsmash]

RB all the way!

[KLONIME1001]

i am proud to own a 2JZ. its realy sick :D

[ZajoSTi]

my favourite type too. I am very proud to owe one

[n40798]

my favorite type of engine

[acharad]

A very smooth running engine design...

[CBRLeventCBR]

like bmw 320 323 325 328 330 335 motor...

[Servento05]

I like this engine, i think that is the better tahn V8 or V6, goog job, I like your videos

[TehRacooonODoom]

@Servento05 it is better than a v-6 in all aspects other than dimensions required to fit it due to its self-balancing properties

[flightmaster178]

@Servento05 Very torqy and very reliable

[fpm1979]

Well done!