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Originally posted by gang$tarr
W8? doesn't that mean it's 2 banks of 4 cylinders? but than it would be 2 V4s and i don't think car's use V4s... they're not good
so how does that make sense? cause like the W12 is 2 banks of V6 engines
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The VW W8 engine is two banks of four cylinders, but staggered. If you were looking down on the cylinder heads they'd be like:
That means the crankshaft zigzags around all over the place.
It's like two V4s that overlap and share the crank. Wow, this is hard to explain...
