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Pentastar V6 engine news from Chrysler’s Trenton plant!
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Feb 4, 2025
What’s in the cards for the company V6 and Trenton Engine? Let’s take a look at a future which looks brighter than the recent shutdown would suggest!
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hey there this is Dave and I'm here to
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talk to you very briefly about Trenton
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engine and as you may have read they
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have done some brief layoffs they've
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temporarily closed the plant because of
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an Overstock situation and that is how
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things work in the Auto industry and
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that is normal uh they basically
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overproduced they were told well you got
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to run 7 days a week make this many
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engines per day and they did they met
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their targets and so now of course they
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have too many engines in stock and of
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course you see other people on YouTube
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and other people in print and on blogs
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and such and they talk about how well
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this means that they're moving
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everything to Mexico but that's not
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completely Fair Trenton actually started
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on a new engine in August a new engine
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for them which is the pentastar upgrade
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version for the 2025 Ram 1500 and that
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is good because that is continuing
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product they just are about to start on
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a new pentar upgrade engine for the WL
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Grand Cherokee so that's also good news
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so let's take a look when I say pentar
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upgrade or pug engine let's see what's
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in that so it's been a few years since
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the Pug engines the pentar upgrade
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engines that is have arrived and they
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got revised heads with new cam phasing
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twole valve lift and a lot of friction
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reduction there is no direct injection
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even now and what's kind of funny is
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that there's still selling the original
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engines as well as the pugs so the nice
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thing about the upgraded engine is that
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you get 15% more torque at low engine
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speeds and better gas mileage on the
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garan Cherokee five more horsepower came
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in and on the Challenger already by 2023
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you had 305 horsepower from this engine
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which is pretty good so the two-speed
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variable valve lift reduces pumping work
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at low speeds and doesn't sacrifice top
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end power a new torque driven cam
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phasing valve timing system Cuts oil
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demand and is hard to talk about and
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increases its range from 50° to 70° the
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valve timing was recalibrated to take
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advantage of the new intake manifold
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other updates include cooled exhaust gas
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recirculation or EGR a new intake
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manifold with longer Runners for higher
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torque boost higher compression from
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10.2 to 11.3 to1 new fuel injectors have
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eight holes to atomize the fuel better
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and there were a bunch of things they
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did to reduce internal friction so
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overall they managed to cut 4 lb out of
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the engine down to 326 lb kind of makes
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you wish that they would only make the
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pugs doesn't it so again this whole
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thing of engines come in engines leave
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that's all normal it's the Auto industry
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it's been that way forever and they are
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getting some nice new pentar upgrade
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engines and I think personally that the
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pentar engine is probably going to have
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a bigger role in Chrysler's sorry uh
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Fiat Chrysler sorry FCA Us's future
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future than the executives had planned
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originally because it is a darn good
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cheap efficient
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engine well that's it for Dave I've been
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away for a while I've been out sick I am
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coming back slowly and I'll see you soon
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