I understand for a W16 there’s 4 banks of 4 cylinders each, or a W12 is 4 banks of 3 each…but how is the block set up? I mean…when thinking of such an engine, a W12 for example…i picture 2 V6’s side by side…but if that were the case, there would have to be 2 cranks…
Just something i’d like to be educated in if somebody has anything useful to say or a good link to a writeup or two, maybe with pics and cross section graphs/diagrams/animations and what not…
oh so it’s just two huge heads…i for some reason thought there’d be 4…
and in i think last month’s or a couple month’s ago American Iron Magazine…my dad subscribes…on the cover was a bike with an old airplane radial engine…was pretty cool
Instead of 2 banks of cylinders like a typical “V” engine, there could be 3 or 4 banks all connected to the same crank. (The VW “W” motors have 4 banks, basically 2 VR’s. The Bugatti W18 is 3 banks of 6.)
