Nub here. Why, out of all the V configurations, is the V8 the

V10's and v12's aren't nearly as common as a v8, and v6 sounds like shit

>>14507098
1. V8s sound awesome
2. V8s work well from a mechanical/engineering standpoint

Why do people like one band and not like another its just guitars bass drums and singing making noise

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>>14507098
>V3
why even live at that point

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>>14507130
>engines with uneven numbe of cylinders in general

Honda made a v5, they always did crazy shit with their bikes.

Don't know about any v3s

>>14507119
>read something incredibly stupid
>it's a heartbreaker post

>>14507098
>>V2
>>V3
>>V5
>>V14
>>V18
>>V20
>>V24
What cars even have these configurations?

>Yet people derail V6s and worship V8s? Why?
V8s generally sound better, are more associated with performance, and are considered more of a status symbol. However, that old 20th Century way of thinking. 6cyl engines are proving to be the choice configuration in recent years.

> Why not covet V10s or V12s?
They are. What gave you the impression that they weren't?

>>14507152
>What cars even have these configurations?

>V2
Morgans and Mazdas.

>V3
N/A

>V5
Passat, Golf, Bora/Jetta, SEAT Toledo.

>V14
Was going to be used in the McLaren F1.

>V18-24
Lawl.

>What gave you the impression that they weren't?

Not nearly as talked about as much as V8s.

>>14507173
Non of those cars you listed are v5, they are inline 5 or i5.

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>>14507152
W24 a goat

V4s are awesome. Honda used them in bikes Aprillia is currently using one in their super sport and Lancia used it in the fulvia.

I really wish more cars had them, it's such a cool sound.

>>14507214
Yeah v4's sound way better than i4s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6bjUI-KQbg

In the old days of rwd American cars, engine width was not much of a concern. Length was, so the v8 came about. It fit in the length of an i4 but had double the displacement! You and all of your buddies loved the power and the sound. As you grew older and started a family, the Big Three continued to produce those v8s in differing configurations, but the parts were mostly the same. Everywhere you looked, from muscle cars to medium duty trucks, vehicles used the same 6 engine families - big and small blocks for each of the Big Three. How convenient that was! Parts were plentiful and shared across platforms through the decades. Technology improved but the knowledge you learned in your youth still applied, and you hoped that one day you would pass that knowledge on to your son. You dreamed of hot rodding a small block with your son and laying rubber all the way down the street.

Fast forward to now. Everywhere you look, people drive imports with turbocharged 4 bangers. The vehicles you loved are slowly rusting away or rotting in junkyards. Millions of potential burnout-inducing engines slowly disintegrate in junkyards, engines similar to those that you left your sweat on when you were younger. The kids you see are either uninterested in car culture or are infatuated with scraping their oil pans on the ground. You don't understand why anyone would want such a trait in their automobile.

Lost in a world that has forgotten the glory of American v8s, you slip away to your bed. You look at your wife, as old and unused as the small blocks you were just thinking of.

You go to sleep.

You don't wake up.

>>14507152
v2s are used on motorcycles

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V8 is when there are enough cylinders going off per revolution that makes it relatively smooth. V12 is when perfect balance is achieved, anything more is redundant. Inline 6 is also well balanced.

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>>14507412
>engine width was not much of a concern. Length was

Wut

>>14507448
The i8 was made before they realized they could make V8s.

V6s sound like shit
need turbos to make good power

>>14507098
V8 is not too large for cylinder displacement, which is probally why you won't see a 7L V10-V12 in a car. V6's can not compete with inline because config limits RPM, but they do not have the V8 power in which more cylinders at slower rotation generating the same or more power at crank with less strain. Which is to say a V is less high end reliable than an inline.

>>14507412
Is this a copy pasta? Most of this is false.
>engine length
What

>>14507184
Vr5 you dunce

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>>14507795
>need turbos to make good power
I'd debate that. On the other hand there's plenty of inline sixs that are also sad without a huffer.

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>>14507412
>You go to sleep.
>You don't wake up.

The comfiest pasta I read today, thank you an/o/n.

>>14507795
The fuck is considered good power to you?
>VQ37VHR
>Rated at 350 horsepower and 276 lb-ft torque and it's naturally aspirated
Plus that car weights ~3200 lbs and has a more balanced weight spread because there isn't a giant boomer piece of shit under the hood.
>and it gets much better MPGs

>>14507422
Motorcycles are not cars.

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I got a V4 right here

Everything above V12 is unfeasibly large for passenger cars. V12 and V10 are too mechanically complex and therefore expensive for daily drivers. V6 is a relatively modern development and originally a mere space saver solution and didn't provide serious power for the longest time. V4 used to be a space saver solution until they figured out how to mount straight fours transversely with front wheel drive. V2 is motorcycle tier.

>>14507098
V8's are for americucks.

W configured engines are where it's at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaokhE06Ed8

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>>14507146
Daihatsu Charade C-series were all v3 iirc

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>mfw op

OP IS MEDIOCRE

>>14507448
The long nose cars stopped around the mid 50s desu senpai

>>14508066
>3200 pounds
>350 HP
Kind of makes me sad that this is actually good for a modern car.

>>14510132
t. Busrider

>>14510302
Pretty standard for a mildly built fox body

But I guess they're pretty nose heavy.

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>>14510132
>Albania

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>>14507098
Oh they did pay attation to the glorious V2

>>14507146
omg that's the cutest thing I've seen in a while!

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Why don't automakers ever use OHC V4's?

>would be extremely light weight
>easy to mount longitudinally
>can be mounted very far back for good weight distribution

>>14507148
this

why do we see less boxer engines? why don't they start making V engines upside down?

>>14507152
I have read that v6 has better exhaust scavenging for turbocharged application

>>14507114
>and v6 sounds like shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrs0oa-XIV4

:^)

>>14507114
https://youtu.be/VWgjSCgUjyg

>>14512529
>why do we see less boxer engines?
Boxers are a gimmick meant for people who honestly believe that there is a handling advantage in having a Boxer. Also they are harder to service.

>why don't they start making V engines upside down?
Again, it's servicing. Why would you make it harder to get to the heads/valvtrain? You would literally have to jack the car up or get used to working on your back. Plus, lubricating the crank will be harder as well as trying to keep oil out of the combustion chamber. The pistons themselves will have to work against gravity, too. Furthermore the drivetrain would either be placed higher intruding more into the cabin or the cylinder heads would be barely scrapping the ground. One wrong bump and your whole valvetrain is fucked.

Upside-down V is pretty retarded the more I think about it.

>>14510096
But what makes a V10 or V12 more complex other than the addition of two cylinders (at a time)?

>>14510132
holy fuck that terrible image stabilization

>>14512470
R&D and production costs make it not worth it

>>14507146
>Don't know about any v3s
Weren't those old honda (i think) 2 stroke bikes a V3?

>>14507098
I've always wanted to do this.
>3 Honda v4s, either old 750s or 1100s
>bolted together, front to back or side by side
>turbocharge all of them with a small, medium and large turbo dialled in for different times, to eliminate turbo lag and get a ridiculous high horsepower rating
>call it the Troika
>tfw no fabrication skills of my own
>no idea how to even design that
>just got inspiration from the front-back and side by side dual engined cars in Fury Road

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>>14507098
Because it's the best

>>14507118
>1. V8s sound awesome

ROFL, they sound dreadful like they have a misfire


>>14507184
Oh look another Trip who doesn't know his shit they are V5s

>>14507098
memes, marketing, consumerism

>>14507098
lub lub lub lub