Re: Why not use crankshaft weights on any vee engine?

bobj wrote:
ray wrote:
Steve wrote:

No v6 is ever going to be a smooth as an inline six or v8, but since the length of an inline six is incompatible with most modern small car designs and a v8 is too inefficient when made that small, it comes down to a choice of v6 or inline 4. Given that, the v6 handily wins the smoothness contest.

I wonder what a 2.5L V8 would sound like. Would it still sound like a V8?

Ray



a 2.5 V-8........ methinks a Daimler-SP250 has one that size. It uses the old 60's aluminum Buick V8 that GM sold them. Sounds pretty good too. The sound produced by any engine is directly related to some ratio having to do with the connecting rod length and the engine stroke.

Well.... that, and cam timing, lobe-center separation, ramp rate, intake/exhuast event timing, ignition timing, firing order, exhaust valve configuration, intake plenum volume, intake/exhaust port size/shape, exhaust manifolding, downstream exhaust plumbing.....

In the grand scheme of things, rod-ratio really is a fairly minor contributor to engine sound.

What truly amazes me is that with all these variables, all 90-degree crank v8s still manage to have an identifiable sound that says "I'm a 90-degree crank v8."


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