Re: 2.0 V6

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

on 5/9/02 11:07 AM, alfa-digest at owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided wrote:

> Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 08:33:58 -0400
> From: "John Hertzman" <johnhertzman@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re: 2.0 V6
> 
> George Graves, responding to a further comment on the 2.0 V6 Turbo, writes
> that ""The 2 liter V-6 just has a shorter stroke, I believe. Same weight,
> size, etc." as the 2.5. Small quibble, a shorter stroke AND smaller bore, 80 x
> 66.2 mm against the 88 x 68.3 of the 2.5 and the 93 x 72.6 of the three-liter.
> Pretty close to the bore/stroke ratio of the 116 Giulietta 1.3 (80 x 67.5) and
> the 78 x 67.5 of the Junior version of real GTA.
> 
> Not meant as nit-picking, just adding data in the spirit of more-is-better,
> which it is in some things.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> John H.

Thanks for the info. I've never seen specs on the engine, I was just going
by what I remembered reading once.  My point was that while the little Mazda
V-6 is a tiny jewel of an engine, the 2.0 liter version of the Alfa V-6 was
the same block as the 2.5/3.0 liter version. One thing that I always
wondered: the Mazda engine was universally praised when it showed up in the
MX-3 coupe. Why did Mazda not drop it into the Miata? Now THAT would have
been a car! Opinions, anyone?
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