Others in the peanut gallery will bleat we should have led with the aluminum block 8.3L V10 that appeared in the 2004 Ram SRT-10.
Some haters dismiss it as a 5.9L Magnum with two cylinders tacked on, but, while designs of the two are similar and they share a 4-inch bore, the V10 has a 3.88-inch stroke. This was way more than other gassers in the mid-’90s, and is rather impressive even today. Showing up for duty in Ram 25 models starting in 1994, this 488-cubic-inch 10-cylinder Magnum was good for 300 horsepower and – more critically – every one of its 450 lb-ft of torque was on duty by a mere 2,400 rpm. The party didn’t last forever – the engine went away in 2007 – but this 340-horsepower monster remains sought-after by GM fans who often custom-tune the mill to well over 500 ponies.
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It showed up in Heavy Duty variants of Chevy and GMC trucks, plus 2500-series Suburbans and Yukons at the turn of the millennium. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. This is not to say it was old-fashioned, since the thing had a modern engine control system, short and long intake runners, and other advanced tech. Hewn from the same basic architecture of another big-block Chevy engine which will be listed later in this post, the 8.1L (496-cubic-inch) Vortec V8 was arguably The General’s last link to the ’60s hot-rod era. Our list will be comprised of engines designed for installation in trucks and found in consumer-grade vehicles, so mills like the mighty Detroit DD16 (a 2000-plus-lb-ft diesel displacing an atmosphere-gulping 15.6L and found in commercial vehicles) will not be listed here, though we will note that glorious engine has pistons the size of paint cans and has a dry weight about 500 lbs more than an entire 2021 Mazda MX-5 convertible. Permit us the leeway to inject a note of sanity before diving headlong into our article. Motor Mouth: Canada moves to ban new combustion-engine cars by 2035.Electrification dominates Wards 10 Best Engines & Propulsion Systems for 2021.
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