Pro and Cons of the position of Car Engine

Knowing the position of the car along with its Pros and Cons.

1. Front Engine

Front engine layout engine is an order in a car that was in the front. The location of the engine is in the front is the most popular configurations. In this configuration the machine is placed in front of the passenger cabin.

Pros:

•     More secure (the machine can be a shield from impact from the front)
•     More easily cooled (as it directly receives the flow of the wind)
•     Easier to maintain (because of its position at the front, it is always visible to the driver and passenger)

Cons:

•     The weight of the car leaning forward
•     For rear-wheel drive will be a lot of wasted energy
•     Limiting aerodynamics

2. Central Engine / MR

Middle engine is the engine position laying on the front axle and rear axle. Advantages laying machine in the middle is the uneven distribution of weight distribution. Heaviest component in the car is placed as close as possible to the center of the vehicle, thus reducing the moment of inertia of the vehicle, now it is a measure of inertia moment of inertia of an object to rotate on its axis. (SI unit: kg m2)

3. Rear Engine

Back of the machine is one of the approaches in the design of vehicles, where the engine is placed on the back of the vehicle so that the vehicle can be styled rooms with easier and more aerodynamic.

Pros:

•     Easy on the production vehicle,
•     Because of the location of the machine on wheels that propel the vehicle, the friction of the road is higher,
•     It is easier to plan the passenger cabin space
•     Radiation heat generated by the machine can be reduced with better
•     Cabin space is less noisy than the front engine.

Cons:

•     Because of the location of the engine behind could result in vehicle driving around the corner to be more difficult,
•     Can not detected the abnormalities that occur in the engine

4. V6 engine

V6 engine is an internal combustion engine with a 6-cylinder V configurations installed in the crankcase with two branches, each of which consists of 3 cylinders. Usually between branches forming a special angle or an acute angle to each other and the sixth running of the crankshaft piston. This machine is one of the most popular engine choice after inline 4 engine.

The engine is usually used in the plural modern car engine replaces the six-cylinder inline engines that require large space for today's modern cars. Although its structure is more complicated and not as smooth inline 6 engines, but the V6 engine is more compact, more rigid and tend to not cause vibration due to torque on the crankshaft. V6 engine is widely used as a medium sedan version where the optional inline 4 engine typically be standardnya or it could be as the standard engine in which the V8 engine to engine enhancements. V6 engine is currently widely used for machines with capacities ranging from 2.5L to 4.3 L (150 to 260 cu in)