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Re: New Bugattiwagen racecar?



More cylinders than any automotive engine ever put into production, yes.
But not more than any aircraft engine.  I do believe that there have been
some giant 24 cylinder aircraft engines.
Aaron
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From: Wm. Josiah Erikson <josiah@gsinet.net>
To: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Thursday, September 24, 1998 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: New Bugattiwagen racecar?


>Who knows, but I just wanted to throw in that R&T recently said that VW was
>"considering building an 18-cylinder engine out of 3 VR6 blocks" and that
it
>would be the highest cylinder count engine ever to go into production : )
OK,
>can I say that a little more clearly? How about, it would have more
cylinders
>than any other engine that ever went into production.... there we go. I can
>speak English, really.
>So maybe they got it from the same source, but more than one mag said it...
>    -Josiah
>
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>Jason wrote:
>
>> At 12:20 PM 9/24/98 , Aaron D. Patton wrote:
>> >That's not a lot of horsepower for 26 litres worth of displacement and
who
>> >knows how much weight.  You'd be better off attaching a pair of turbos
to a
>> >W-12 and running nitro-methane.
>> >Aaron
>>
>> You're right- but didn't VW say that the W12 put out something like
500hp?
>> Hmmm, adding 6 more cylinders and 2.8l of displacement, not to mention
the
>> added weight and complexity is sure as hell not worth 100hp... they
should
>> take the W12 and put a light pressure turbo on it... 6psi would probable
do
>> the trick, right?
>>
>> I would put money on it that someone was misinformed- I doubt if VW ever
>> even considered an 18-cylinder... seems just stoopid to me... I'm sure
>> someone just exaggerated the story, and the real consideration was the
W12,
>> especially cause VW now has nothing to do with it, as BMW will continue
>> supplying engines for Rolls...
>>
>>         My 0.02
>>                 Jason
>>                 87 16v
>>                 Now at 52,000 mi.
>>
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