[Diy_efi] OT - interesting little engine

[Steven P. Donegan]

Looks pretty cool - if the 16 cylinders fire evenly (90 degrees apart)
it should make lots of torque :-) And be darned smooth...

On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 09:56 -0800, Adam Wade wrote:
> --- "Steven P. Donegan" <steve at donegan.org> wrote:
> 
> > Looks a lot like the V8 made out of two Suzuki
> > 1300cc engines that was used for a short while on
> > some baby indy cars made in the UK....
> 
> Well, each 4 cylinder "block" is just shy of 1000cc,
> it has 5 valves per cylinder, and a central cam chain
> tunnel...  I'm laying odds on it being four Yamaha
> FZ-1 engines (power output is about right) with a pair
> of cranks built to take side-by-side rods for
> cylinders on either side of the V (standard for
> American V8s).  A nice execution, but it doesn't look
> terribly special -- or complicated.  I am wonderinf
> what that special cam drive system is they allude to
> in their literature, though...  Looks like a regular
> cam chain setup taken right from the motorcycle engine.
> 
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