RE: 4.2 V8 for Modena?

[dinkel]

Mmmh, the Maserati engine is not the aggresive popping Rari v8 . . . Can't they just bigger bore the 360? It's OK as long as it sounds meaty . . .

[murph7355]

The Maser engine is a development of a Ferrari engine is a development of the Maser engine is a...

It's amazing what you can do with an ECU, different intake and exhaust, plus some letraset these days

[chris_n]

Isn't it a bit more than that? I thought, but not totally sure, that current/planned Ferrari incarnations of the V8 feature flat plane cranks while the Maserati 4200 engine doesn't (I think)?

That would make them quite different engines really even if they have some shared development/parts, and explain the engines being quite different in sound/character - high revving power beasts in the Ferraris vs torque monsters in the Maser?

[murph7355]

Chris is right I think...

[mr_tony]

dinkel said:

Mmmh, the Maserati engine is not the aggresive popping Rari v8 . . . Can't they just bigger bore the 360? It's OK as long as it sounds meaty . . .

as chris says the Maserati 4200 engine is a development of the Ferrari 360 engine - bored out, not with the ferrari crank and tuned for torque rather than revs / bhp.

The new 420 Moderna will effectively be using a bored out 360 engine then as you suggest and will assumedly use the flat plane crank for the ferrari 8 pot character (and sound!). So, not to be worried then.

420 sounds like a facelift really though, so I wonder what they have in store for the 420 replacement and when it'll be due...

[bruciebabe]

They did this with the 308 engine, gave it a pyramid instead of a flat plane crank then put it in a front wheel drive Lancia. I currently have 4 V8 cars, 2 with flat planes and 2 with pyramid cranks, there is a huge difference in the characteristics.