The Ford/Yamaha K0A V6 also had a rather unique intake manifold which was rotationally symmetrical and had discrete runners, allowing it to be rotated on top of the engine for ease of integration into either transverse or longitudinal applications. They were really thinking ahead with this one.
I bet they do...but their success (IMHO) will derive from a younger demo, specifically the JDM/tuner market. This market is still growing, and now in regions across the US that were widely traditional. I’m in my 40’s and living in a small suburb, and have seen Suby’s, Evo’s, RX-7’s being driven by 50 year old men. Sure, these may be outliers, but the tuner culture is widespread. Imagine what Yamaha can do with Toyota’s budget and their brilliance?
All amazing engines. Yamaha just seems to knock it out of the park with everything they do, in any industry they participate in.That SHO v-8 must be the best-sounding 235 hp there's ever been.And the 3S is probably my favorite four-cylinder ever. The similar-on-paper 4U in my FR-S is shameful by comparison! (and I know, it's really a Subaru FA20).
Yamaha make absolutely fantastic motorcycles and the sound of the cross plane four cylinder in the MT10 and R1 has become iconic. The most innovative company of our time.
Its more to it than that. People wouldnt be as comfortable buying a Yamaha car vs a Toyota or Honda. Yamaha knows this and chooses to innovate rather than invent. Yamaha and Toyota are together like RUF and Porsche. One hand washes the other.
@@matthewkuhl79 Yamaha's unbeatable advantage is in its Yzr-M1 engine, this allows the racer to have full control of his motorbike in corners, but the top speed issue has indeed been a problem for Yamaha since the Yzr-M1 was first developed, hopefully the engineers find a solution
This video is fascinating! I knew Yamaha made heads for stuff like the Lotus Elise and whatnot... but I had no clue they made whole engines for many different car makes! Thanks for this, man. You've added a few cars to my list of stuff to own. lol
the thing about the sho's is that they where fast in their years not anymore, you could get outrunned by other modern vehicles, but having one now makes you feel great because not only you own a old school sleeper but it has that special kind of engineering that makes it unique the v8 3.4 sho and sounds amazing
I've seen two in my lifetime. One on West End Blvd, in New Orleans. The LFA has the most incredible sound I've witnessed in any car. Better than any V12 Ferrari. To see the LFA, in person, to witness an engineering marvel of its class is humbling. I would never own a Lamborghini or Ferrari. An LFA, absolutely! Why? Because it doesn't have absurd maintenance issues or is heavily unreliable. It's engineered to the pinnacle of performance and reliability.
I see way too many people praising this car and saying its reliable, yet i have to see one with more than 25k miles on it, and a genuine car enthusiast who has an idea of cars in general who owns one and isn't a rich spoiled brat
I thought that i was the only one who griped about that. Too, BMW has a sportbike the S1000RR with a 4 cylinder engine. Please tell me they did not copy that from the Japanese.
What we can see here is Yamaha had very close ties with Toyota and Ford. Toyota obviously owns Lexus, and during the time when Volvo had V8s on offer, they were owned by Ford.
Toyota owns Yamaha unfortunately. This kind of crap destroys the car industry, like how GM ruined various brands around the world that they bought out in the past. Now Saab is owned by fcking Geely, a Chinese copycat manufacturer
I know at least two other engines that Yamaha has developed or co-developed. One of them is a small, lightweight Sigma engine (Zetec-SE). Ford started with the Ford Fiesta Mk4, which had different capacities, and the strongest suction variant was 1.7, 157 hp and 162 Nm hidden under the bonnet of the Ford Puma. Over the years, Ford fiddled with this engine and eventually created an EcoBoost variant. The strongest version was the 1.6, 205 hp in the Fiesta ST205 MK7. The second engine is 1.8, 192 hp under the hood of the Corolla E12 T-Sport.
It's nice to see a video that mentions the 3.4 SHO V8 without everyone and their dog crapping on it in the comments. I'm currently doing a resto-mod on a Silver '98 SHO that I pulled out of a field, and the looks that I get from people on the street when they hear the engine makes it more than worth the price. And the whole cam sprocket issue thing, mine has 251,000 km and no engine issues to speak of, and I've never heard of anyone that I know of actually having that problem, so I say it was overblown. The only real issue with the cars is the weak transmission, but I have a spare, so I'm not super worried.
Yamaha is an excellent company that make quality gear regardless of which division. I have had Yamaha bikes,pro audio gear and bass guitars, I still have 10 Yamaha basses in my collection.
You missed one of my favorites, the Daihatsu GTti and GTXX CB70, CB80 series 3cyl engines. In the late 1980 these were competing in World Rally Championship events with 299hp from a 993cc, 3cyl engine! Awesome 👍
Takafumi Arisawa Well its same engine. I hope we will get some videos on single engines history in greater detail. Thats good idea for new series Visio!
Thumbs up from me for Altezza 3S-GE. One point to note though, the 3S-GE rev 1, 2 & 3 found in Celica's & MR2's are no -interference. The BEAMS red top rev 4 in JDM '98/'99 Celica's & BEAMS black top rev 5 in Altezza's are interference engines!
And they were pretty fast. I believe it was the third generation that got the V8. The earlier v6 with a 5 speed were about as fast and a little quicker.
We can learn a thing from this video and it is that Toyota really knows who to talk to in order to produce high end engines. Yamaha is such a great company in all its divisions. They make superb bikes, pianos, drums,guitars... It is really hard to achieve that level in such a wide and different range of products. Of course thanks to VisioRacer for producing informative videos,not like many others youtubers that do 10 minute videos talking shit about their cars and lifes because they don't really have knowledge and they don't want to "waste" their time researching
yamaha engine ( volvo ) is also used in the english noble m600 supercar and yamaha helped out renault with the cylinder head of their f7p engines due to cracks around the spark plug on early prototypes
Those Taurus SHO sedans were literally the star of the "SHO". Get it? Because show and SHO........ I need to shut up. But honestly, I love those Taurus SHO sedans. And even though I hate 6 cylinders (the only 6 bangers I like are two stroke detroits), that Yamaha V6 sounds like awesomeness. But that 3.4 V8 tho......I LOVE THAT 3.4!!!! God!!!! To me that engine is like the Japanese version of the Windsor.......Dafuq did I just say? Again, the Taurus SHO is the bomb!!!! :D Sorry if I sounded stupid. :P
The 3.4 was a modified Ford engine, not a Yamaha engine. Basically a 2.5 Duratec with 2 extra cylinders. The V6 SHO is the real Yamaha deal. Too bad the examples he picked in this video sound terrible. No self-respecting SHO V6 sounds like that.
atheist45 The V8 is as much as a Yamaha engine as the V6- the V6 was designed off the existing Vulcan engine. The V8 was designed off the Duratec- the V8 had an aluminum engine blocks, using the patented Cosworth process, at their Windsor, Ontario plant, considering they even shipped them to Japan for finishing by Yamaha. The finished engines were shipped back to the Taurus plant. They’re definitely Yamaha built- both the V6 and V8 are Yamaha built.
VW engines are better, the 4.0L V8 Twin Turbo FSI in the Audi RS7 and the 5.2L FSI V-10 in the Audi R8 are the best production engines currently in my humble opinion. There are more powerful engines but non are so technologically advanced and smooth running as these two.
@Ben Latour Prince motors was absorbed by Nissan in the 60's and developed their own 2 litre inline 6 cylinder engine named S20 which went in the original Skyline GTR and the Fairlady 432.
david me i guess nissan probably see that it cost so much to produce, and expensive to sell to majority market, also the successor of fairlady (S30 Z) is on the way 1969
You forgot to mention the Toyota 18RG, 2TG, 3T-GTE and 4T-GTE. The 3T-GTE is the first turbocharged production engine from Toyota and was in a Celica, Carina and Corona.The 4T-GTE is the homologated version of the 4T-GT race engine that was in the Group B Celica rallye car.
For Double Over Head Camshaft, instead of saying D.O.H.C just say Doc. Your English is getting good, I remember when you first started this channel, I could hardly understand some words you were saying, no problem no though. Another engine is the 1G-GTE from the Toyota Supra, 2,000cc twin turbo, Toyota's RB20.
Toyota/Yamaha co designed engine from the Elise is found in the Celica 190vvti/GTS and Corolla T Sport. Plus there was a limited run of Corolla T Sport with this engine in supercharged form (yes from the factory). I believe there are 250 of that model in the UK. 230bhp. Underrated cars.
B8444S in 2005 had main issue with drainage in block. In 2006 Volvo fixed it, but they never admitted this bug. Also, this engine was used in Noble. Of course - with turbos.
I have a stock 2003 JDM Corolla Fielder wagon with the 2ZZ-GE Yamaha motor. 190 hp, 4 speed tiptronic, 180,000kms and going strong. 100mph is a breeze.
@@carholic-sz3qv I agree. Many manufacturers of cars would do well to note: They are simply assemblers of components......Not true "manufacturers". Some high-end marques manage it, but your bread and butter makes should stick to what they know best. Assemble as cheap as possible. But as reliable as possible. Not something many know a lot about!.
Could you do a list of all the Yamaha designed and manufactured heads. Now that would be a very interesting list of engine builders.Keep up the amazing videos very appreciated.
The Volvo V8 is actually the Ford Taurus SHO V8 with greater displacement. And it is based heavily upon the Ford DuraTec V6 engine, hence the 60 degree included angle.
johnyfartpants yes it is and you can even go so far that the basics of that engine still live on until today. The 1.6 Ecoboost and its successor, the 1.5 Ecoboost are basically Sigma engines.
There was the 1.25 engine with Yamaha development and the 1.4, 1.6 and 1.7 of the Ford Puma, which were Yamaha engineered, especially the 1.7. The ST170 is Cossie-Developed...
As Chris McGyver correctly states - the 1.25l engine in the european Fiesta (not sure about the US one) was co-developed between Yamaha and Ford, an all aluminium DOHC 16v unit I believe (obviously with steel cylinder liners) plus the variants of 1.4l, 1.6l and 1.7l also used in the Fiesta (but not the 1.7l although you could easily transplant it into a Fiesta if you had the time and expertise) and Puma. A sweet smooth torquey unit that was in 1.25l form in several mk5 Fiestas that I owned over the years. It was that good, it would accelerate on a gradual uphill part of a motorway in 5th at 70mph - something that earlier versions of Fiestas just couldn't do. And it would keep accelerating so long as you mashed your accelerator into the floor! I surprised many a BMW and Mercedes driver by doing that and then flashing them to pull in cos I was going faster than them - then keep the speed above 90mph and they never bothered you, unless it pissed them off that much, in which case they'd blast past me at around 120mph, just to prove a point, but they'd bottle it and slow back down to 80 and I'd catch up with them again and do it all over again! happy days! lol! And the rozzers (cops to non UK residents) never bothered me cos they never thought a bog standard scruffy 1.25l Fiesta Zetec would be capable of such a thing - a real sleeper car for pocket money prices! lol!
hi i am from good old germany and the european ford focus mk1 from 1998-2004 - benzin gasoline engine zetec s engine 1596 and 1398 ccm with 55 KW and 74 KW also from Yamaha engineered good engines
I believe it was the 1.25 and 1.4,not the 1.6. It was a great little unit which loved to rev, but if you let the oil get a little low or skipped oil changes they would suffer quite rapidly,more so than other stuff treated equally as poorly.
The 4A-GE is probably my favorite engine on this list because you can mix and match parts to get a wide angle DOHC larger displacement engine- 4A-GE head plus 7A-FE block Heck, those engines are easy to convert to carbureted and they had a 20v variant which probably also has an interchangeable head!
If you look at Yamaha dirt bikes they developed nearly every new technology you see in modern bikes such as mono shock rear suspension, liquid cooling, and they produced the first 4 stroke mx bike the yz400f and started the 4 stroke revolution. They may not have been the first to perfect any of this tech but they were always the first to come up with it.
KTM is the best innovator in dirt bikes. Yamaha usually only release high tech on factory team bikes. Years later it's on the normal bikes. KTM had liquid cooling on the entire lineup way before Yamaha. Same with one rear shock and upside down front fork and also liquid cooled 4strokes before Yamaha dirt bikes. Back in the early 80s KTM had aluminum rims, removable rear frame and aluminum handlebars, upside down fork, yamaha still locked like cheap 50cc mopeds with steal handlebars and single frame. KTM began developing an ultra-modern 4-stroke engine in 1982 based on the 500cc 2-stroke housing. The name of this engine was also a reference to its design: LC4 1981 - Production of the first water-cooled 125 cc Motocross bike. 700 employees achieve an annual turnover of ATS 750 million, 76% of the production is exported to 13 countries. 1986 - KTM becomes the first manufacturer to offer disc brakes front and rear. www.google.no/amp/s/elitektm.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/the-illustrated-history-of-ktm/amp/
I wonder if I should try to find a '96-'99 Taurus SHO. I always wanted one. Also, Ford took the Yamaha V8 from the SHO, placed it in a Festiva, and created the one-off SHOgun hatch, back in the mid 90s. Would've put the Renault 5 Turbo to shame. 😀
The 96 to 99 Sho was a fun car, I owned a 97 but I was correcting you on the Shogun,Festiva. It had the first generation Yamaha V6, Not the V8.The V8 if you can still find one in good condition was great in the Taurus, It's not the fastest thing in the world anymore 0-60 in about 7.5 seconds but the sound was intoxicating.
