Hmmm hookers and blowers, sounds like a recipe for success in life
Alloytecs are possibly the hardest engine to get power out of
A) they are incredibly expensive to modify B) they are already highly strung to make 195kw C) they may have 195kw from factory but they aren't a quick car to start with
It's heaps better to blow new cars off the road in a 20 year old shiter
I don't think that is very accurate. They are expensive to modify because the after market hasn't had a lot to do with them and tuning them isn't supported very well. MACE is slowly changing that. Having said that, with 4 cams it's never going to be as cheap to do a cam upgrade.
I don't think they are high strung? They are a smaller capacity engine so generally they rev them more to make similar power to a larger displacement engine (I still say this was a mistake from GM). The guy who makes the after market intakes did cammed version with his intake that is very rev happy and makes very good power. Like to LS type engines the bottom end is very strong.
There no slower than a (standard) VS V6? It's actually hard to compare because your not comparing apples with apples. Lets say VE omega with the Alloytec but still with the old 4L60e tranny and they are a bit of a slug but get a VE SV6 with one of the fancy 6 speed auto's and they are a fair bit quicker. I think a lot of the gains in recent times in car performance hasn't been so much the engine but rather the drive line. Those fancy 6 speed auto's keep the engine in the happy rev range a lot easier. Even an old VS V6 would be a fair bit quicker and more fuel economic with one of those trannies fitted.
TBH, I'm actually not a fan off the Alloytec family of engines, somewhere I did a big rant in a thread about how well GM didn't do when they upgraded (if you want to call it that) from the 3.8 Ecotec engine to the 3.6 Alloytec
