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What is the best engine configuration and why is it the flat twelve?
Alexander Peterson
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Nathan Martinez
That's not a BRM H-16.
Benjamin Stewart
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Liam Nguyen
>Flat 12
>posts boxer 12's
As a V8 fan, i'd still have to say Boxer 12 is the best engine configuration. Unless we can go up to a boxer VR24.
Dylan Bailey
>The Subaru 1235 was a motor racing engine designed and built by Motori Moderni for Subaru's Formula One program in 1990. A 3.5-litre boxer-12, it was used by the Coloni team for the first eight races, but proved to be very unsuccessful and the team reverted to using the old Cosworth DFR V8 engine.
TLDR;
V8 is better.
Nathaniel Perry
V6 > V8
Jordan Cook
>pic related slower than a fwd nissan leaf and v8 nissans
Roflmao
Jackson Perry
V6 > V8
also it beat the corvette at lemans
Xavier Morris
Everything knows the best engine platforms are the straight eight and V12.
Dominic Perez
not even. a flat twelve is smoother and has better cog. it fits nicely in rear layouts due to no steering column, so it's just the best.
the real issue however is where the fuck can i get a flat twelve for under 100k?
Ethan Mitchell
>Opposed piston 18 cylinder 36 piston valveless
God damn i want one
Liam Davis
damn, that's cool
Wyatt Reyes
will it fit in a Miata?
with few mods to firewall there is a chance.
Kayden Cooper
How does that even work
Lincoln Murphy
>forked conrods
>three crankshafts
>two stroke
John Adams
Fuck off faggot.
Easton Sanchez
why isn't this configuration a thing? Seems pretty space efficient.
Add a V engine on top of the sandwich and you get a "yen" engine (the shape would literally be the yen currency symbol).
Owen Fisher
Aren't boxer 12's a subset of flat 12's?
Julian Scott
12 cilinders is way too big.
CoG is heavily compromised, to fit the exhaust headers underneath.
Finally, engine width is as big as it can be, given any other configuration. This usually means you'll have to compromise on your suspension design (See: Porsche using McPhersons in the 911).
Grayson Myers
>smoother
Citation fucking needed. Inline sixes are inherently balanced, no matter the angle between them.
>better CoG
Sure, but it doesn't improve the car's CoG, because you still need exhausts under there - so you have to raise the crank off the floor to create clearance, and then you end up with the same overall CoG, while costing a buttload of engine bay room which you should be using for suspension. You can't, so you'll have to compromise on wishbone length, dynamic camber etc. etc.
Ryder Bailey
See They exist, and they're called H engines.
First off, chain drive would suck if you actually made some decent power. Manifolds would be a bitch, and the more room you take to create a decent intake manifold, the higher your CoG gets (exponentially so). As a final thought: the BRM H16 was huge. Anything not using teenytiny cilinders would become MASSIVE.
Gabriel Murphy
Then why did the vette cross the finish line and complete more laps than a awd v6 nissan lmp1?
btfo
Jeremiah Foster
Is it possible to make a V32 or a W32?
How would it sound?
Grayson Rivera
you could just route the exhaust ports upwards.
Ryder Ross
Is this what a rotary with pistons looks like?
Sebastian Nguyen
but then wouldn't your intake would be on the underside?
Julian Moore
Like shite.