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- Say what you will about anime being trendy these days.
But I am stoked about "Attack on Titan".
Okay, I'm already,
I'm mentally prepared to be emotionally scarred,
but I already got through that with the "Game of Thrones"
thing that happened about a decade ago.
So there is that.
I feel like I'm ready,
but knowing there's an ending to something
is sometimes part of like the journey, right?
Family. All right.
And when we want to relive the initial energy
of what something was,
we'll rewatch that old movie.
We'll pay attention to an old anime,
or even go back to something
that may not be as standard as it once was.
Like film photography, or like old school room scape.
I will still wipe the floor with anyone with my DDS spec.
Okay. For people like you
and people like me in the car scene,
that's happening a crap-ton lately.
I'm Alex, @ALEX.FI on Instagram
and today we're gonna be sitting down,
looking back at the automotive school yearbook
particularly junior year to figure out exactly
what happened to naturally aspirated cars.
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Naturally aspirated cars have been a thing for ages.
I mean, literally decades finding their power
by basic air fuel injection.
And in all honesty, there's really not a whole lot to it.
It's just an engine that's drawing in air
from outside atmospheric pressure and it pushes it
into a combustion chamber through the intake manifold, okay?
In addition to that, at that time,
most naturally aspirated engines then have a predetermined
amount of fuel that go into there and inject
into the cylinder with the spark plug
doing its job, sparking.
You put the whole thing together
with some sort of timing system, some sort of ECU,
and you pretty much get any sort of
naturally aspirated engine.
Now there are some incredibly sophisticated elements
to a naturally aspirated engine,
such as the introduction of a dual overhead cam.
That one was shocking.
Why have one, when you could have two?
Variable timing tech and electronic fuel injection
or cylinder deactivation.
Cylinder deactivation stills in something
that works really well
but the platform of a naturally aspirated engine
is relatively pretty simple and it works.
And a lot of automotive manufacturers have been using it
for almost a hundred years.
Most people about a naturally aspirated engine,
pretty simply, like a small block Chevy or an LS2
or an LS3 but there's some pretty impressive
naturally aspirated engines out there right now
one of the things I would say is the S54,
a motor I would is like iconic for it's like
335 horsepower output from a 3.2 liter,
which has an engine note and power curve
that is easily distinguishable even with a blindfold on.
Don't drive with a blindfold on,
but if you've driven a car with an S54,
you know they're pretty damn good.
They feel good.
Maintenance, not so much.
So while companies like BMW, Porsche or Chevrolet
and more are finding success with naturally
aspirated engines pretty much throughout their entire life
there it seemed to be an ever-growing love of cars
that come with like a little fan that could pressurize air
and potentially make cool noises and add more power
without additional work.
It was essentially just this thing, this technology,
this jet plane thing that they wanted to start adding
to engines and they would call it a turbocharger.
Now we want to be clear.
Turbochargers, aren't something new to like the 2010s
or 2020s or 2000s or 1990s or eighties or seventies.
In fact, it's not even a thing that really was knocked out
by cars over in Japan, which a lot of people think.
In fact, the first production boosted vehicles
was a 1962 automobile
with a 10 and a quarter compression Garrett turbo
and was sold out as an upsell option
and by the time you realized it would come
with engine knock,
you'd have to buy turbo rocket fluid for it.
That is a real car. There's a real thing.
Not joking that is marketing in the sixties. Okay.
And that was the name.
It was a one-to-one water meth fluid for those nerds
that like old automotive history.
After that turbos would slowly start getting slapped
into things like tractors, semis,
and more just to see if it would like do something.
Now, right back in the sixties,
they're really just trying to make it an upsell option.
Something that they could put into the highest trim
of their vehicle.
And while everyone was kind of doing it
as like a passing grade turbocharged engine,
they weren't really applying it the correct way
and they could really never get the good mm,
the the hmm out of it until the big boy, all right,
the big daddy, the best in the business,
I'm sorry, I'm a little biased,
but Porsche would come into the world in 1974
and show the good old BMW with his bunky 2002 turbo
how to truly use a turbo.
It was the fastest production car in the world,
and it definitely caused some accidents
and became one of the founding reasons
why sports car manufacturers began truly investing money
into turbocharged platforms.
Really once they saw Porsche do it,
I mean, they saw BMW do it and a couple of others,
but once they saw it done right,
everybody got excited and that was primarily it.
Sports car companies saw turbo charging their cars
as an upscale trimming opportunity to show off
their fastest and their best
but because of the added engineering and costs,
it's usually the most expensive option.
Without it, 99% of the car manufacturers
were still making naturally aspirated counterparts
at a fraction of the price,
which was like what everyone else was pretty much buying.
And sure you had turbos in various formats
or to come into the fray of the 70 eighties
and early nineties,
but there wasn't even a massive fan base on the technology
until it got more widely adopted in the nineties
and really started to come over into the United States
as a more affordable version in the tuner car platform.
That's where a lot of times people think it came from,
but really was more widely adopted in the nineties
because of the cars that were coming from overseas.
Every single time, if I think of an FD RX-7,
I just think of Vin Diesel with his big muscles
say, "Doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile,
winning is winning"
I should shave my head.
Why do they even put him in an RX-7?
Tuner cars from across the ocean
and they're hyper-speed adoption by the domestic markets
started to speed up the idea of slapping a turbocharger
onto a car for additional speed.
Now I want to also say yes, there are turbo cars coming in
like the 300 ZX and things like that in the seventies
and eighties. I get it.
Not only that though,
but the widespread criticism around pollution
and mileage standards and environmental impacts overall
tuners really started to be utilized as a way to like
tell the car community that it was margarine
and you wouldn't even believe that it's not butter.
I mean, the car enthusiast wanted
the naturally aspirated power, the real butter version,
but the margarine turbocharged version was just as good.
I mean, could you imagine the 3000 GT with a six liter V8?
Probably not, but those cars and cars like it
were what really began to show some of the newer
enthusiast companies like GM Ford
and Dodge Ram Chrysler Jeep it's potential.
Turbocharged engines would light a fire in the late 2000s
when Ford would officially announced the EcoBoost platform,
which was a twin turbo V6 that would go
literally everywhere.
Now Chevy would jump into turbocharged trucks
into 2018 and 2019 with their Silverado
and even Jeeps now have a turbo four cylinder
that gives you a bit more torque and love
and gets you a little bit better gas mileage.
There's so much happening with turbochargers
specifically with like domestic car manufacturers.
So everyone should really love them, right?
I mean, they're more efficient
than naturally aspirated counterparts for the most part.
They have more power typically for the most part.
You know, whatever.
They are more widely accepted in the general public
than naturally aspirated.
So why is there even a debate about naturally aspirated cars
putting up their hat and just kind of sort of retiring?
Because there ain't no other powerful and manful
as the sound good old naturally aspirated straight six
flat eight flat four V10 baby.
All right. Now I want my muscle cars with pistons
and displacement. All right.
And the same motor that Ford made in 1936.
I don't want no forced induction.
I don't want him to same thing in my truck
as my Ford Fusion.
All right, get that outta here.
It's a very big generalization,
but as you go into what happened with naturally aspirated
cars and why or if they're actually on their way out,
the answers is unfortunately to some people, yes.
Over 39% of all vehicles sold in north America
are anticipated to carry a snail from a near 23%
in 2015, that's only a 10 year difference.
The environmental protection agency added even more
potential restrictions in the past year stating that
the fleet wide average fuel mileage will need to be 52 miles
per gallon, which is gross. Okay?
But the fastest way to hit these rising restrictions
is to turbocharge cars like the Camaro, the Mustang,
the Hellcat more are all vehicles that are probably
sweating in their custom Tony Lama boots.
And that's just something that we're going to have
to figure out.
Their only answer is to keep producing power to the masses
while meeting big dad's curfew is to add turbos
pretty much everywhere they can or go straight electric.
Now, a lot of times that electric barrier
is much harder than adding a turbocharger
so you're seeing a huge adoption rate
of turbocharged engines.
A lot of enthusiasts see those turbo muscle cars
that do hold things like EcoBoost motors
and they get an absolute crap ton of hate for some reason
for what's under hood and the fact that it's not a V8.
But it's pretty likely that you'll end up seeing
more of those as we go into the 2020s,
because the option really is going to be either
get a turbo-charge six or turbo four,
or you get an electric vehicle.
But to be fair, the new Mustangs really look great.
I mean, emmys Mustang on a novia elders' looks awesome,
slammed five-0s looks great on elders
screaming five-O has questionable Instagram handles,
but also looks great on elders.
And I know that everyone loves the energy
and the feeling and the driving experience of a V8.
Naturally aspirated.
It just is starting to go away and not only is EPA
upping regulations and removing the deregulation
that occurred from 2016 to 2020,
but it's also found a way that these
automotive manufacturers can't really do it anymore.
And these car manufacturers need to start using
the same power plant for a multitude of platforms
to reduce costs.
Car manufacturers have new competition.
We talked about it in our last video.
Companies like Tesla are challenging
even the truck giants to challenge how they build trucks.
The cyber truck looks like a parallelogram
I drew on a napkin when I was in the sixth grade
but people still bought it, okay?
I don't understand what design is anymore.
Technology companies like Apple and more
are starting to state that they're likely to jump
into the automotive production to provide individuals
a next generation mode of transportation,
which has people very nervous
'cause technology companies are also very, very wealthy.
Ubers and ride share programs have taken a bite
out of the automotive industry
as people learned that in more congested areas of the world,
a car really may not be what you need
I mean, rather than just jumping in the back.
15 minutes.
It's like six bucks.
There's writing on the wall and it's literally
all over the wall that these auto industry giants
are in some pretty big trouble.
And auto industry has already a tough time
fighting in the past decade
and they're gonna have more tough fighting
in the next decade.
By finding ways to take a single engine design
like the EcoBoost and apply it to the F-150,
the Fusion, the Mustang and more
Ford can improve their EPA report cards, still provide
a multitude of options that the consumers,
still give them the good old, angry muscly car look,
even though it doesn't have the muscly car
naturally aspirated engine and keep costs down
as they begin to dabble in things like EV
and make their own ride share programs
which is actually a real thing.
Naturally aspirated motors are likely to stay
for another decade or two
but there's not much hope after that.
I mean, most naturally aspirated cars
are probably just going to sit in this weird little
unique space for maybe the older folk.
People like you and people like me with a wheelchair.
Car manufacturers like Ferrari, Lamborghini, Pagani,
and more will likely only use naturally aspirated motors
in the future to pay homage to the roots of engine design
and not to give good gas mileage
and certainly not to meet any sort of EPA regulations.
But regardless on which car you end up picking up
for the show season in 2022,
whether you're looking at an EcoBoost Mustang versus a V8,
don't forget to actually build it.
That's the thing that really it comes down to.
A lot of people talk a lot of smack on cars,
but they usually like they don't modify them.
And I don't mind the EcoBoost,
but the V10s and V8s will always have a place in my heart.
But you got to modify them if you're going to talk smack.
All right. When you get to building, don't forget to pick up
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I'm Alex from Fitment Industries,
and we will see you later. Peace
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