The Best Engine Ever Made (Do Not Buy Anything Else)

rev up your engines okay the most important thing that you have to choose and you buy a vehicle is the engine and most people don't know squat about engine so I'm going to explain all the different engines that are out there so you can make a wise decision now both of these engines have inline four-cylinder engines so we'll open hoods and explain them they open rather differently there we go now this Toyota Matrix has a typical Toyota Corolla engine it's a 1.8 liter inline four with intelligent variable valve timing we're talking about phenomenal gas mods for an old car this car is now 17 years old gets 37 miles a gallon the highway if you're driving 60 miles an hour and 17 years old doesn't burn any oil runs like a clock it's got plenty enough horsepower Now power mad people say that's not enough power oh they're so slow nothing I can Cruise all day at 85 if you want these things they run perfectly fine as you can see as we look inside the tachometer it starts to Red Line 6400 RPM so you're gonna combo a good guess much it's Zippy enough it's gonna last forever now we'll compare this to the slingshot which granted it's a toy no it's got 70 more horsepower in a 2-liter engine instead of 1.8 but it's a high revving insane motor it gets theoretically 203 horsepower to crank but it doesn't like 8250 RPM which as you can see on a tachometer that's pretty much the red line you're not supposed to go much faster than that right so this thing's got to spin like mad to get that horsepower and even though this little bitty three-wheeler has fiberglass and it's cool looking but it doesn't have a top four doors and air conditioning like the matrix it's over twice the fuel economy that that thing gets even though the Matrix is an automatic and this is a manual transmission this engine is basically a toy made for speed for going around mainly at lower speeds lower speeds oh you get 20 miles a gallon or something but at high speeds it just starts sucking that gas stop now being a toy this Polaris man their own engine you can see it's pretty old school it's got normal fuel injectors it's not GDI it doesn't have turbo or anything on it it's made to put out as much horsepower as it can even though they're super high RPM so obviously the engine will wear out faster and it gets really horrible gas mileage compared to the Toyota concerning the Toyota weighs a bunch more these are just toys this is something that you know you're not going to be driving Cross Country and this thing taking the family it's only got two seats right no trunk for luggage or anything but this shows the difference that they're both inline four-cylinder engine but the Polaris is a higher having one to get horsepower where the Matrix is just the normal 1.8 liter common Toyota Corolla engine that can run and run 1.8 of my Celica 1.8 in this Toyota makes extremely reliable 1.8 liter engines now recently there's a chance we're making engines even smaller one point five one point three even some 1.0 and they put turbo charges on them you gotta understand if you're gonna buy a turbocharged car the engine is not going to last as long turbocharger Rams a bunch of air and that increases the compression your engine just will wear out faster and strangely enough the reason they go to turbocharged engine is because on paper for the EPA they get in quotes better gas mileage but that's on some stupid machine testing real humans driving turbocharged cars have a tendency of stepping in the gas more because the more you step into gas the turbo kicks in more you get more acceleration then you get worse gas mileage so in the real world unless you drive like a granny who goes to church and goes to the grocery store and doesn't go over 30 miles an hour you're actually going to get worse gas mileage in a turbo if you drive it higher than you are in a conventional non-turbo so not only will you get worse gas mileage but the engine will wear out faster buying a Honda my advice is I would buy the two liter non-turbo shower hours time to four cylinder engine versus the 1.5 liter turbo the 1.5 liter turbo is faster but you're going to get worse gas mileage the engine isn't going to last as long there's no magic pill that you can have the fastest car that gets phenomenal gas mark it doesn't work that way my son's got two Toyota Tacomas he's got older four-cylinder one and a brand new V6 TRD why did he buy a new one well because he got a boat it's a heavy boat he wants to tow the boat he wanted something to take out in the country put his boat in now in that case you'd probably be better off getting the Toyota V6 engine it actually gets better gas mileage than the four-cylinder engine because of Toyota's new trick technology and their new engine system so that the V6 actually gets better guess much than the four cylinder for that year strange but true of course that's if you drive it normal speed you run 60 70 on the highway right you start pushing it you're going to get worse gas mileage right you pull a lot of weight you're going to get worse gas mileage he pulls the big boat you he gets worse gas much that's just how anything goes if you're pulling weight if you saw the video I made a few months ago a guy had a Honda Civic with a CVT transmission he told a U-Haul from California to Rhode Island with his crap in it right and I said did you have any problems he says no no so you check it with the machine I got my machine there was no problems with the transmission or anything I said what kind of gas mileage did you get he said well it went down to 15 miles a gallon when I was pulling this trailer well a little Civic getting 15 miles a gallon is terrible if it hadn't been pulling the trailer he always get 30 something miles a gallon normally you pull weight you're going to get worse gas mileage it doesn't matter what engine you're using although if you buy a diesel engine truck the towing doesn't knock it down as much until you get to really heavy duty weights if you're pulling a boat or something like that it won't knock much off on a big diesel engine but big diesel engines are expensive diesel fuel is expensive you're not really saving anything in the long run when you pay that much money for a vehicle you pay that kind of money you pay 80 90 grand or something for a big old diesel you're not going to care that much about gas mileage you want to pull big things and you know you're pulling them it's going to make it there that's the main thing that diesels are good for they're great for pulling that's why all the big 18 wheelers have diesel engines let's say you're going to buy a car even if you're going to buy a used car go to the dealer check out some of the new ones check out a Honda with the two four cylinder engine right drive it and then check out the same one with a 1.5 turbo see if you're happy with either of them many people get into two liter and they say it's a Honda smooth gets good gas mileage I like other people say it's too slow it's too doggy I want the turbo and I had a guy with the two liter non-turbo he was totally happy he says I don't care but he had another customer bought the Accord 1.5 turbo because he said I Road tested the two liter I didn't like it no it's a hot it's not like it's a piece of crap like some Fiat Junction maybe the engine will blow up at 40 000 miles they're still going to go a long time but they will wear out faster than a conventional engine just like if you drive the slingshot hard this engine is going to wear out a lot faster than a Toyota engine well because it's revving so much higher you're getting full horsepower this thing is driving at 8 000 RPM when I'm driving the Matrix on a Highway 65 miles an hour hey maybe if things go on 2300 RPM look at the difference eight thousand twenty three hundred eight thousand is going to wear out faster and use that heck of a lot more fuel now no matter what engine you buy don't listen to any of the horse manure that companies tell you or you can have extended oil changes let me tell you modern engines have so much pressure they use such a light weight oil you want to change that oil and filter every 5 000 miles if you do normal City stop and go combo Highway if you want it to last do not believe that oh you can go extended oil changes yeah then the cars burn oil when they get old I've had so many customers bring me Jam Vehicles they're burning oil when they're three four years old they got 80 to 100 000 miles on them they're taking the dealer they said well that's normal they all do that well yes it is normal when you don't change the oil right the Pistons get worn the oil is dirty dirt is what friction and it wears out the piston rings and the bore the engine cylinder that's what's going to happen you got to take care of it regardless of what type of engine you're buying and engines these days aren't like in the olden days Ford went to their mass-produced V8 because it put on a lot of torque not too much horse farm a lot of torque for acceleration and it was smooth smooth running V8 right but things have changed a long time since then these four-cylinder engines are smooth as can be they know how to design them the metallurgy's better the computers that run the fuel injection system and the ignition systems are better they're more efficient you no longer need a V8 or a V6 to get a smooth running engine if you're like me and want a long life okay inline four-cylinder engine four spark plugs cams all in here if it's a v engine you'd have this side and then the same thing on the other side I mean a lot well I want a big engine I'm going to pull stuff I'm gonna do and if you don't you're throwing your money away plus if you're really needed rent a truck there's many places that rent trucks that's what I do if I got a big deal and I need something in Rhode Island I will rent a truck right Tennessee I don't care my son's got trucks coming out of his ears my grandson I just borrow one of their trucks right if you're not going to use them for that purpose there's no reason in getting a big engine it's going to get worse gas mileage it's going to cost more money to fix when it breaks down you don't need all the extra cylinders that you used to need after all cars of Transportation devices when it comes down to it okay this isn't this is a toy people driving around have fun you can't really take them in the rain got a canvas top thing but it's not going to keep you from getting wet seats are practically made out of scuba diving wetsuits because it's in the rain all the time and they dry off fast but this isn't something that people are driving every day you get an everyday car you want something that lasts has enough power it's good gas mileage it's going to last as long as it possibly can so in this case the smaller the better unless you want Power then smaller is not better you get a 1.3 liter engine put a Turbocharger GDI it'll go it'll put a lot of horsepower but it will also blow a lot faster than one of these older ones well because it's got too much high pressure technology that is going to wear out it's like burning a candle on both ends the candle isn't going to last as long you want to get better gas mileage go out and buy a hybrid car now of course they have their own problems extremely high level of complexity but let's say you buy a brand new Toyota Prius that thing's going to last probably a couple hundred thousand miles or more before anything major goes wrong with the thing they're pretty well made but when it does go wrong I do not advised buying a used Prius with 200 000 miles unless you get it for 500 bucks and it works and then you say oh it's all gravy as long as it lasts I have some fun if you do want to save on that you can if you understand you buy new you'll get a certain amount and that's going to cost so much money they become more or less disposable cars there's some old thing like this all seven Matrix with the 1.8 Corolla engine in it Johnny they last forever unless you live up north and the body's rust away eventually from the south or as it often happens here on the East Coast people bring me cars I said oh why'd you buy a new car they said oh we love their own Corolla but we got T-Bone we got rear-ended by these Maniac drivers in Massachusetts realize in many cases simpler is indeed better if it's made correctly because let's face the facts most Vehicles you're buying aren't a toy like this Polaris there's serious Transportation you want to last get good gas mileage not fall apart on you and the big thing behind your vehicle is the motor so now that you know a little bit more about Motors you can make a wise decision and if you've got any questions about certain ones hey just ask me I'll answer them so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bell [Music] foreign

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 12min 19sec (739 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 24 2023