[Milk 1027]

Originally Posted by DGthe3

The reason why everything would heat up is because coolant circulates through the entire engine and aluminum (well, any metal) conducts heat very good. The actual pistons themselves might not get up to temp as fast, but the walls won't know the difference. Each de-activated cylinder is adjacent to 1 active cylinder. Overall, the engine won't be terribly different than one with all 8 cylinders firing. If it didn't have an integrated thermal management system it might be a bit different.

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