Kia is set to give its new 1.0 litre T-GDI Kappa turbo engine its world production debut in Geneva – the first vehicles to be equipped with the mill will be models from the new cee’d GT Line range. Here, the engine – developed in-house at Kia’s Namyang R&D centre – will offer 120 PS at 6,000 rpm and 172 Nm of torque, available across 1,500 to 4,100 rpm.
The unit follows on the debut of the 1.0 TCI in the facelifted Kia Morning (the Picanto) in Korea – the GDI unit has higher numbers than the non-direct-injected TCI, which puts out 106 PS at 6,000 rpm and 137 Nm from 1,600 to 3,500 rpm.
The new T-GDI features a single-scroll turbocharger paired with an electric waste-gate motor, which improves the turbocharger’s air scavenging performance. The promise is greater low-end torque, more immediate engine response from any throttle position and improved fuel economy under higher engine loads.
Other tech cues include newly-developed laser-drilled injectors, with six individual holes. The laser-drilled holes, laid out in a pyramid shape, provide a more even spread of fuel/air throughout the cylinder. Together with a high pressure pump, the new injectors are able to provide fuel injection pressure of up to 200 bar.
Elsewhere, there’s a straight air intake port, which ends in a sharper air intake throat, to improve air flow to the combustion chamber. The engine is also fitted with an integrated exhaust manifold, which lowers the exhaust gas temperature slightly, offering better high speed, high load fuel economy and cleaner emissions.
Lastly, a new dual-thermostat split cooling system allows the engine block and cylinder heads to be cooled independent of one another – the main thermostat controls the flow of engine coolant to cylinder heads above 88°C to reduce knocking, while an engine block thermostat shuts off coolant flow above 105°C to reduce mechanical friction and aid efficiency.
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Kimchi’s race of the “best” engine title.
How much torque can a 1.0l engine deliver? Whatever extra provided by the turbo actually compensate the extra weight by turbo itself.
End of the day, you don’t have extra power nor good fuel consumption.
If this car is about 1290kg and the engine delivers similar power to 1.8l engine, it’s ok ady
ford fiesta 1.o engine perfome well what???
meanwhile, proton fans already bragging about peak torque from cfe engine from 2k rpm saying 2k is already low.
Dude, please. Stop bragging about them already.
If you are used to CFE, 2k and above is usually reached in highway driving, about 90km/h – 100km/h
While lesser than 2k is normal for city driving. You dun need the car pushed to the max torque before you need it coz you may end up bumping the car in front.
At 1800RPM the engine torque is more than normal 2.0l engine
Yes, it’s torquey at low rpm, unlike normal Japs cars
unless u are well verse in engine tech I can support you.. if not then too bad
this new engine use timing belt or timing chain?
What use when too low? The turbo kicks in and you are going to use more fuel.
wow….just wow…
Gonna be fun strapping this engine on a Suzuki Jimny
i dun really get how the dual thermostats work..
1 for cylinder heads & 1 for block.
-cylinder heads above 88°C to reduce knocking
-engine block thermostat shuts off coolant flow above 105°C to reduce mechanical friction and aid efficiency.
what will happen if block & head got different temperature? even if the material are the same, the thermal expansion are different due to different temp.?
just wanna learn here.
The technology is nothing new! it has been applied on marine engines for decade.. Bergen engine(rolls royce marine engine), wartsila engine etc has had been using this technology a long time ago successfully.
Engine block and the cylinder head differs in operating temprature regardless of material
So this will be a competition between ford’s ecoboost and kia’s engine?
Kimchi can only be compared with India and China makes
And your sushi can only be compared with moving coffin
Interesting competition indeed. A step in the right direction for Kia.