Straight eight/ vee sixteen engines?

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04/08/2014 at 20:19 • Filed to: None

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How are these types of engines set up? Are the cranks like two 4cyl cranks end to end (flat plane)?Or maybe some form of crossplane?


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Kinja'd!!! YSI-what can brown do for you > Ron Calls on his years of experience....and freezes at the controls
04/08/2014 at 20:24

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They are crossplane but they are very long blocks. So long that the camshafts tend to bend . Alfa combated this by putting the timing chains and such in the middle of the block.

Oh and straight 8s are beautiful.


Kinja'd!!! Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Ron Calls on his years of experience....and freezes at the controls
04/08/2014 at 20:27

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Best way to look at is is an I-4 crank in the middle of another I-4 crank that's been split in half and placed at 90 degrees.


Kinja'd!!! OkCars- 22k Crossroads > YSI-what can brown do for you
04/08/2014 at 23:50

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You know a lot YSI, now i understand this Mercedes engine, it has the same as you say in the middle, but this isnt timing chain, its all gears.

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Kinja'd!!! YSI-what can brown do for you > OkCars- 22k Crossroads
04/08/2014 at 23:58

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Well, timing gears, chains. Almost the same thing. . . kind of. Too bad no ones makes straight 8s anymore, they sound great, but V8s are much smaller and more effective.