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- Vehicle Year
- 1986
- Make / Model
- Ford
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- 2.3 liter
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- Automatic
So I have been thinking about the exhuast note of an engine. I have begun to wounder about why it is that the 3.8 v6 has a nice low rumble (kinda like a mini v8) where as the 4.0 v6 doesn't. It would seem to me that the 4.0 should have the deeper, meater exhuast note, but yet this is not so. (I might be alone in thinking that the 3.8 sounds better than the 4.0)
So I was woundering if anyone else had looked into/wounder about this.
I tried looking up the diffrencence in the motor to see if i could figure it out.
The essex is a 90 v6, the cologne(4.0) is a 60 v6.
then I looked at the relation ship to bore and stroke in the essex vs the 4.0. The essex is closer to being a squared off motor.
Then i looked at the cam specs, the 3.8 is slightly more "agressive"
The fireing orders are the same,
the number of valves are the same,
The essex has more horsepower than the 4.0
I also have been doing comparissons on the same exhuast system (diameter pipes, and mufflers ext) on both engines, and the essex just sounds better accrosed the board (again just my opinion).
Does anyone know which of these is related more to the exhuast note than the other.
So I was woundering if anyone else had looked into/wounder about this.
I tried looking up the diffrencence in the motor to see if i could figure it out.
The essex is a 90 v6, the cologne(4.0) is a 60 v6.
then I looked at the relation ship to bore and stroke in the essex vs the 4.0. The essex is closer to being a squared off motor.
Then i looked at the cam specs, the 3.8 is slightly more "agressive"
The fireing orders are the same,
the number of valves are the same,
The essex has more horsepower than the 4.0
I also have been doing comparissons on the same exhuast system (diameter pipes, and mufflers ext) on both engines, and the essex just sounds better accrosed the board (again just my opinion).
Does anyone know which of these is related more to the exhuast note than the other.
