dojj

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watching the telly about the veyron, they showed how the engien was built and put together and it seems that my views of the w engine being 2 sets of v's stuck together sharing the same crank

it's actually a nomral v engine with the pistons on each bank offset, so you've got 2 banks of pistons in each v

possibly everyone else but me knew this, but in case they didn't

StephenC

I didnt know, daft as it sounds I thought it was two V engines side by side and could never get my head around how two cranks would marry up Took the W symbol as meaning two V's side by side.

GARETH T

have you ever seen a VR6 engine?

jammy86

its 2 VR engines IIRC, not two V.

dojj

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nope, but i couldn't understand how a V6 engine could only have one head, so it sort of makes sense now

Chip

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It is a W, 2 very narrow angle V's formed into a W

AlexF

Technically its not a true W engine....

dojj

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what sort of engine is that then?

AlexF

Thats a true W engine... the defination being three banks.

The engine itself is a napier Lion W12

Alex

Chip

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I'm not aware of an official explanation as to requirement for the number of banks, but the veryon has 4 banks rather than 3, in the same way that a vr6 still has 2 banks of offset cylinders, as its just 2 of them joined together essentially.

dojj

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so in this case it's a case of 2 + 2 really should = 2 but does in fact = 4 ?