Looks like the 2 liter turbos are finally getting the boot (vehicles, 2013)

[earthisle]

I have a Golf Alltrack with 1.8 turbo rated at only 170hp and 200ftlb but it's good for this 3100lb vehicle. At low revs it has good torque and above 4000 it has more than enough power for canyon roads

This is what the dyno looks like.. The dashed lines are stock


I had a rental Chrysler 300 V6 and it felt a lot slower because to get to the torque you had to rev it higher

[Mr78609]

You need to be ready for high repair cost when the little overworked engines wont take it any more.

[NC211]

Originally Posted by earthisle

I have a Golf Alltrack with 1.8 turbo rated at only 170hp and 200ftlb but it's good for this 3100lb vehicle. At low revs it has good torque and above 4000 it has more than enough power for canyon roads

This is what the dyno looks like.. The dashed lines are stock


I had a rental Chrysler 300 V6 and it felt a lot slower because to get to the torque you had to rev it higher

I did this (APR) to my current 2015 GTI recently - total game changer! I had it on my last one too (2013) with 0% problems.

VW has figured out to make direct injectors quiet too, about the only ones who’ve figured this out in the German space. My Mb is direct injection (2014), and noisy (tick tick tick) at idle.

[southernnaturelover]

Originally Posted by NC211

I did this (APR) to my current 2015 GTI recently - total game changer! I had it on my last one too (2013) with 0% problems.

VW has figured out to make direct injectors quiet too, about the only ones who’ve figured this out in the German space. My Mb is direct injection (2014), and noisy (tick tick tick) at idle.

It’s actually the high pressure fuel pump that makes most of the ticking. Some manufacturers put a lot of sound deadening foam around the pump to absorb the noise.

[Snowpacked]

F1 cars have 1.6 liter V6 turbo hybrid engines making 800 hp+ at 12k rpm.

[NC211]

Originally Posted by southernnaturelover

It’s actually the high pressure fuel pump that makes most of the ticking. Some manufacturers put a lot of sound deadening foam around the pump to absorb the noise.

Interesting, I didn’t know that! Thanks for the clarification!

I learned something new today!

[scorpio516]

Originally Posted by Mr78609

You need to be ready for high repair cost when the little overworked engines wont take it any more.

You do know I4 turbos have been on the market for 40+ years and don't cost much more to repair, piece for piece. Sure, 41 year old Saab 99 Turbo wern't really reliable and 80s hot air turbo Chryslers sucked, but it's not the 70s and 80s anymore...
I've have more than a couple turbo I4 with 200k+ miles that have never been opened up.

It's going to be a whole lot cheaper to fix a Chevy turbo than a BMW na

[TimtheGuy]

Originally Posted by Taksan

The Ford 2.7 Ecoboost is a twin turbo V6 not a 4 cylinder.... it’s Chevy that’s got the 2.7l turbo 4 in the new Silverado as the base engine.

The RAM recently passed Chevy in sales with the vast majority of their trucks equipped with the 5.7L HEMI V-8 and Chevy comes out with a 4 cylinder. What a joke. #goRAM

[V8 Vega]

American 4 cylinders for years have been known to blow head gaskets.

[BrianGC]

Originally Posted by scorpio516

You do know I4 turbos have been on the market for 40+ years and don't cost much more to repair, piece for piece. Sure, 41 year old Saab 99 Turbo wern't really reliable and 80s hot air turbo Chryslers sucked, but it's not the 70s and 80s anymore...
I've have more than a couple turbo I4 with 200k+ miles that have never been opened up.

It's going to be a whole lot cheaper to fix a Chevy turbo than a BMW na

This.
People are still so afraid of turbo-4's or just have some superiority complex against them. One of our cars has a 2.0T with over 226k miles on it. We've yet to do more than expected maintenance on that engine.