My guess would be you wouldn’t be able to balance those kind of engines.
Needs to be a equal amount of cylinders on each side.
Wouldn’t inlines work for odd numbered engines or does it still need to be an even number
It’s a matter of balance at the crank. You’d get really oddly timed powerstrokes (a 7 cylinder engine would be a fractionated number of degrees (102.857142rep) between events), oddly timed firing order since you normally fire two at a time so one will fire alone, and a ton of engine vibration; in addition to a bunch of power lost as a result, especially when you start adding more and more cylinders to it. That’s what I3 engines are really the only odd-cylindered cars used today. I5 motors were used until a few decades ago, but big I7 and I9 engines died back in the 50s. Also, if you have the room for a V7, or V9, or V11, there’s no reason not to go for the extra displacement.
Understood :D
Vw did have a v5 in the old touareg to was exactly half the v10 and the previous gen focuses has a straight 5
Its all about crank balance and firing order, marine diesel engines have straigth 14, straigth 9 and so on. The wierd vw "v5" is more like a double straigth 5, 3 sylinders on one side and 2 on the other. A straigth 6 sylinder is the most balanced engine there is, they dont need any help rotating. there are a lot of good videos on the subject if youre in for it.
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My guess would be you wouldn’t be able to balance those kind of engines.
Needs to be a equal amount of cylinders on each side.
Wouldn’t inlines work for odd numbered engines or does it still need to be an even number
It’s a matter of balance at the crank. You’d get really oddly timed powerstrokes (a 7 cylinder engine would be a fractionated number of degrees (102.857142rep) between events), oddly timed firing order since you normally fire two at a time so one will fire alone, and a ton of engine vibration; in addition to a bunch of power lost as a result, especially when you start adding more and more cylinders to it.
That’s what I3 engines are really the only odd-cylindered cars used today. I5 motors were used until a few decades ago, but big I7 and I9 engines died back in the 50s.
Also, if you have the room for a V7, or V9, or V11, there’s no reason not to go for the extra displacement.
Understood :D
Vw did have a v5 in the old touareg to was exactly half the v10 and the previous gen focuses has a straight 5
Its all about crank balance and firing order, marine diesel engines have straigth 14, straigth 9 and so on.
The wierd vw "v5" is more like a double straigth 5, 3 sylinders on one side and 2 on the other.
A straigth 6 sylinder is the most balanced engine there is, they dont need any help rotating.
there are a lot of good videos on the subject if youre in for it.