Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:11 pm by tiec
stephenl9000 wrote:In the first post in this forum, Zeussy says that he hopes to have W18 engines in the game. This sounds terrific, except for one thing. A "W" engine has four banks of cylinders, and 18 is not divisable by 4.
Urrm no 18 is not dividable by 4, but what the problem here??
Single crank, 3 banks of six cylinders in an inverted broad arrow configuration.
Bugatti used this configuration quite a lot.
There was a VW 4 bank W18 also. Their design was loosly based on the VW V5 engine (found in the VR5).. that was a twin bank with 3 cylinders on the first bank and 2 on the other bank (this engine is not really a true twin-bank V engine). They had the V9 variant laying around (4/5 twin) and 'glued' two together on a single crank for a W18. I'm not really sure though if the engine was ever used in production...