"Flat plane"?The word(s) you are looking for are "boxer",slang for pugilist,or pancake motor,or,opposed cylinder,or 180 degree motor. The Federal Aviation Adminstration requires a "flat plane" engine to be designated with an "O" as in opposed. Ferrari uses a "B" for Boxer. Old VW Hippies/fans call the engine in a VW van a pancake motor,yet they call the very same engine in a Beetle(type one...etc.) or a Porsche a flat four/six."Horizontialy opposed" is the "Joe College" nomeclature,Nice post!
Also, some of those that sound like 4 cylinders, are actually V8's. The flat-plane crankshaft has been around for a long time, but there are also 180 degree headers, which give off a sound similar to a flat-planed V8. Either way, they sound alot like a 4 cylinder engine. Look into the Ferrari 430 Scuderia. It's V8 sounds like an angry 4 cylinder being wound beyond reason.
The straight 4's are 2000cc (2 litres) and about 250 hp at 9,000 rpm natural aspirating (basicly a 1970's Formula 2 car race motor). They are quite lightweight cars compared to the V8 McLarens which are 750 hp 8.3 litre - and therefore more or less equally in performance to these on a racecirquit like this ...
I said flatplane crankshaft, I wasn't referring to the cylinder bank separation angle. The flatplane crankshafts 180 degree twist gives an even right-to-left firing sequence to the firing order, causing it to run like a pair of four cylinder engines connected at the crank and give it a lustier, exotic sound like what we're used to from Ferrari V8's. A standard V8 crossplane crankshaft causes an odd firing even where 2 cylinders of he same bank fire in succession at 2 points in the firing order.
Wow, great stuff MPZRACEVIDEO!! Man why did I have to be too young when this series was around?! I'm guessing there are straight 4's and V8's (mostly) here? Can some1 tell me about how they got some serious power from those 4 cylinder motors? Supercharged? (No turbos in those days, am I right?) And what cc's of the high-revving 4's? If someone can tell me it'll be interesting. Thanks for a great upload.
You said...Old VW Hippies/fans call the engine in a VW van a pancake motor. Actually the Type 2 transporter or bus (not van Btw) didn't use the 'pancake'style engine until the early 70's. All other air cooled VW motors are called 'upright engines' these would be the Type 1 (Beetle) Type 2 (Transporter/Bus) again as I said until early 70's and the Karmann Ghia also used the upright style of engine. The type 3 also used the pancake motor due to space restrictions in Type 3 design...hope this helps
Idk where the hell you got the idea I was talking about a damn opposed cylinder crankcase. A flatplane crankshaft has nothing to do with "boxer" engines. Flatplane crankshafts are used in 90 degree V8's to make them fire evenly from bank to bank, as if it were 2 inline 4 cylinders connected on a common crankshaft. This is why Ferrari V8's sound the way they do, not because they're a fucking "boxer" engine. If you still don't understand what I'm talking about, then take the time to look it up.
Technically, the turbocharger has been around since the very late 1800's, if I'm not mistaken. At the latest, it would have been the very early 1900's.
I really don't know how to respond to this,If you think that you are writing a new law of physics,well,that's Comanche territory.A Boxer is a Boxer is a Boxer!
Ran out of space. Great post,nice of you allow me the opportunity to "wow" you with my trivial trivia/nomenclature.LOL Gotta showoff sometime,that's how we get the chicks!
Horizonttaly opposed motors are commonly referred to as "boxers". The Federal Aviation Administration gives these engine types an "O" designation and we,the FAA and I,also call them "boxers"..
