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Originally Posted by The_Blur
I completely agree with you about the sound, but I would take the power. Imagine pulling up next to a Mustang GT with your 350hp V6 and beating the piss out of it.  |
I've read that the 3.6 was designed for displacements of 2.8 to 4.0L and by my calculations that extra 0.4 would bring it to almost the same 340 as the 5.7 Hemi in the Charger R/T (and probably the Challenger R/T) and I bet GM could squeeze out a few more ponies if it didn't need to sound like a Cadi.
I also don't see why a v6 has to sound different than a v8. I can understand that the factory would tune the exhaust note differently on the traditional base v6 because of who they expect to buy them (same goes for the imports). But if they were building a v6 to fight American v8s, I bet they could make it sound like an American v8...