bob
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| posted on 28/7/03 at 07:28 AM |
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Lads
Get yourself down to the Brooklands Museum and have a look at the Napier Railton,as mentioned earler 24 litres in a W12 formation its a fantastic
piece of iron and ally.
http://www.brooklands.org.uk/
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ned
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| posted on 28/7/03 at 09:38 AM |
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i thoght it was wierd as it has three conrods connecting to one crank journal. i guess three cylinders on the same row have to fire at the same
time?
biarre, or is this how all w12's work?
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Alan B
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| posted on 2/8/03 at 01:57 AM |
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Hmmmmm....interesting thread, but....I'm sure the Cadillac motor in question is actually a V16.....
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bob
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| posted on 2/8/03 at 09:27 PM |
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Alan
the thread diversed a bit as we do 
this V16 caddy eng that becomes V8 or V4 is not new technology,they (cadilac)have been messing around with this thing for a couple of decades that i
know of.And i think it was on the drawing board in the 50's
[Edited on 2/8/03 by bob]
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kingr
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| posted on 3/8/03 at 10:26 PM |
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The frictional losses of running a V16 as a V4 must be horrific as well.
Kingr
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Browser
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| posted on 10/8/03 at 03:50 AM |
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Two more Napier engines. First the Sabre, used in the Hawker Typhoon/Tempest aircraft, was an H24 (two banks of 12 cylinders each mounted one on top
of the other). Second, the Nomad, a (I think) flat 12 with a compounded 3 stage turbocharger, used for powering aircraft. Napier really did come up
with some mad internal combustion devices.
Does anyone remember that Aussie motor froma few years back which used a scotch yoke-type crank? Was supposedly better that conventional
crankshaft/conrod arrangements as it allowed the engine to be more compact. Anyone know what happened to it?
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