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The Pentastar engines are made in three different factories: Dundee Engine Plant, Trenton Engine Plant and Saltillo South Engine Plant. [1] The Pentastar engine was introduced at the 2009 New York Auto Show. [2] [3] The engine design allows the use of E85 or 87 octane fuel and features dual variable valve timing.
Chrysler Pentastar engine The Chrysler 3.3 and 3.8 engines are V6 engines used by Chrysler from 1989 to 2011. This engine family was Chrysler's first 60° V6 engine designed and built in-house for front wheel drive vehicles, and their first V6 not based on a V8 .
Variable valve lift (VVL) is an automotive piston engine technology which varies the height a valve opens in order to improve performance, fuel economy or emissions. There are two main types of VVL: discrete, which employs fixed valve lift amounts, and continuous, which is able to vary the amount of lift.
The SOHC V6 has been replaced by the Chrysler Pentastar engine. There are three major variants of this basic design: the 3.5 L, 3.2 L, and 4.0 L. Additionally, ...
The new Cherokee (KL) is built on the compact U.S. wide platform, and features a nine-speed automatic, a choice of a 2.4 L Tigershark I4 with Fiat's electro-hydraulic MultiAir 2 variable valve timing and variable valve lift or a 3.2 L V6 based on the Pentastar 3.6 L V6, and front and four-wheel drive (the latter a Jeep's Selec-Terrain system). [55]
Pentastar V6 DOHC VVT naturally aspirated: Dodge Avenger: Ford: 5.0 L (302 in³) V8 engine: 5.0L Coyote DOHC Ti-VCT: Ford Mustang GT: General Motors: 1.4 L & 16.0 kWh: Inline-four REEV: TwinPort DOHC electric Hybrid: Chevrolet Volt: Hyundai Motor: 5.0 L: V8 engine: Tau GDi CVVT DOHC: Hyundai Genesis 5.0 R-Spec: Nissan (Renault-Nissan Alliance ...
In 2007 Chrysler announced a new 822,000-square-foot (76,400 m 2) engine plant to produce the Pentastar V6 engine.It has the annual capacity of 440,000 engines. [3] The new facility is LEED Gold certified, with features such as Zero-Waste-to-Landfill processes, the use of native grasses and trees on the property, higher performance insulation and more efficient manufacturing processes ...
GM's Active Fuel Management [2] technology used a solenoid to deactivate the lifters on selected cylinders of a pushrod V-layout engine. GM used the Active Fuel Management technology on a range of engines including with the GM Small Block Gen IV engine family, first-generation GM EcoTec3 engine family, second-generation GM High-Feature V6 DOHC ...