What on earth are the benefits to a w8 setup aside from packaging?
I think they sound absolutely incredible. Unfortunately they are insanely expensive to maintain, coupled with the fact that its difficult to find anyone who even knows how to work on them
Always thought these were neat
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Time to bring the thread back from the dead with a twin turbo flat twelve.
I know this is an airplane engine but I figure it's mad enough. It's like a piston engine that feeds and is fed by a jet
>napier nomad
>1. 41 litre, flat 12, 2 stroke diesel. Runs at 3.5:1 compression ratio
>2. Rear propeller powered by piston engine
>3. Afterburner in the exhaust for the piston engine
>4. Turbine from the exhaust for the piston engine. Basically the back end of a turbocharger
>5. Axial compressor. Powered by air from the turbine at the rear
>6. Front propeller. Powered by the turbine
>7. Intercooler
>8. Centrifugal supercharger. Because it is powered by an afterburner rather than just exhaust air it manages a healthy 90psi of boost
This was beyond nuts
Now that is what I call a fucking rocket sled.
mid-mounted in a Forrester when?
Wait so two cylinders share the same chamber? Thats pretty damn cool.
>not flat 16
>8 intake runners
>8 throttle valves
>8 injectors
>2 exaust headers
>4 cylinders
>the original wankel engine
>runs so lean detonation does not occur