The Most Amazing Automotive Engines

[roadsterz4]

http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2011/12/28/The-Most-Am...

[RegMolehusband]

Lovely design aesthetics for the top view - but are they amazing engines?

[RWD cossie wil]

I'm a major fan of Ducati's Desmodromic / Desmoquattro system, that uses cams to close the valve as well as open them. Very very clever design, means that valve bounce is eliminated and allows a V-twin with huge valves to rev highly!

Edited by RWD cossie wil on Wednesday 28th December 14:50

[Buff Mchugelarge]

Yup, I'll give you the Nissan lump, the Bentley is over the hill. Turbos and all.

Rover V8?
Essex V6?
Lamborghini V12?

ETA that site in the link is pretty awful !

Edited by Buff Mchugelarge on Wednesday 28th December 15:01

[williamp]

They are so boring with plastic covers. Engines where you can see the plumbing are much more interesting:

[DanielC4GP]

williamp said:

They are so boring with plastic covers. Engines where you can see the plumbing are much more interesting:

Totally agree with this. I used to love having a good look and poke around the engine bay when checking the oil or filling up the windscreen wash. Nowadays it's all covered by some stupid plastic cover on top.

[The Black Flash]

RWD cossie wil said:

I'm a major fan of Ducati's Desmodromic / Desmoquattro system, that uses cams to close the valve as well as open them. Very very clever design, means that valve bounce is eliminated and allows a V-twin with huge valves to rev highly!

Edited by RWD cossie wil on Wednesday 28th December 14:50

From what I've read though, one of those ideas which sounds good, but which isn't actually any better than springs. Which is why everyone still uses springs, or pneumatics in the case of F1 etc.

[RESSE]

Not the best pictures I can find at present, but the naturally aspirated Napier Lion quite something:





Type: 12-cylinder water-cooled W-block (3 banks of 4 cylinders) aircraft piston engine
Bore: 5.5 in (139.7 mm)
Stroke: 5.125 in (130.17 mm)
Displacement: 1,461.6 in³ (23.9 L)
Length: 57.5 in (1460 mm)
Width: 42.0 in (1067 mm)
Height: 43.5 in (1105 mm)
Dry weight: 960 lb (435 kg

[RESSE]

Ferrari

[RESSE]

C Type replica:

[RESSE]

TVR

[Willy Nilly]

Most mundane stuff is pretty amazing really. They are relatively inexpensive, require very little maintenance, make plenty of power, don't use much fuel and if you look after them they seem to run for ever.

[Eighteeteewhy]

I've always loved the no-frills look of the viper engine.....

[Mastodon2]

Here are a few of my favourites, great looking engines and all having a unique and very special character to them

The Skyline RB26DETT - this one has custom made intake and exhaust manifolds, but it's a good photo



The Honda K20a, imo the best 4 cylinder engine ever made



The Honda B16b, the first Type R engine, making 185bhp from a 1.6L NA engine, an absolute engineering gem.

Edited by Mastodon2 on Wednesday 28th December 16:22

[Arthur Jackson]

Two different approaches to achieve the internal combustion engine's Holy Grail!!
(extra points for the rarity of the bottom one!)

[Monty Python]

Always wanted one of these:

[cocopop]

I absolutely love these...

20b (in an FD)


R26b from the 787s

[Tango13]

The Black Flash said:

RWD cossie wil said:

I'm a major fan of Ducati's Desmodromic / Desmoquattro system, that uses cams to close the valve as well as open them. Very very clever design, means that valve bounce is eliminated and allows a V-twin with huge valves to rev highly!

Edited by RWD cossie wil on Wednesday 28th December 14:50

From what I've read though, one of those ideas which sounds good, but which isn't actually any better than springs. Which is why everyone still uses springs, or pneumatics in the case of F1 etc.

Mercedes Benz were winning F1 and sports car races and world titles in 1955 with Desmodromic valve trains and direct fuel injection. Ducati's first desmo wasn't built until the following year.

[Dave Hedgehog]

[sherbert90]

The original Lamborghini V12