Re: W8 Musings

[ChuckKuecker <ckuecker@mcs.net>]

At 21:27 12/3/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Has anybody actually taken the time to consider exactly HOW a W8 engine
would be constructed?  A W12 works because 12 is easily divided by
3...giving 3 banks of 4 cylinders each.  Exactly how do you divide 8 by
three to get 3 banks of cylinders with equal numbers?  You don't, that's
how.  A small V8 is very possible, look at the one Suzuki has in one of
their current show cars: 1.6(!!!!) litres, 4-cams, 4 valves-per-cylinder,
twin intercooled turbos, 250HP.  Light, compact, and powerful.
>I personally think that a version of Audi's 5-valve V6 with maybe
250-275HP, in a Synchro GTI would be pretty cool.
>Oh well, just my $.02.
>ADP

I thought the W12 was two VR6 blocks mated with the cranks somehow combined
- four rows of three cylinders, with two wide heads. A 'W8' would then be
four rows of two cylinders each - and that sounds a bit wasteful of space
compared to a V8..

Chuck Kuecker

ckuecker@mcs.net

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