Oh yeah, they've put the W-12 together - as fuel hungry as a real V-12 but
without the glassy smoothness...

The VR-6 is an adaptation of the old Lancia V-4 which was a narrow-angle vee
with a common head.  A very famous engine in its day.  =)

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> re
>
> "I" is confusing, as it is alsu osed to indicate that the crankshaft
> lies along the car's axis (as opposed to transverse, where the crank
> lies across the car... or bike)."
>
> That would sure be news to me,
> since everywhere I've ever read or been in the automtoive world, going back
> a buncha decades,
> engine configuration abbreviations, ( H6, I4, I5,  V12 etc etc. ) refer
> *only* to the basic layout of the engine,
> and have zero to do with how it's arranged in the vehicle, whether
> sideways,
> 'inlineways' , diagnoally, or standing on its end.
>
> and someone knows how VW got 'VR' for their  VR6 configuration desugnation.
> My guess it's derived from a couple of german words.
> ( for those not familiar, a VR6 is a narrow angle V-6, and what's
> 'different' about it is, it only has one cylinder head.  For a mind teaser
> ...........If you joined two onto one crankshaft, side by side, not end to
> end, that would be a W12.  They may have not made that one, but they have a
> W8 for sure, which would be two narrow angle V4's joined side by side on
> one
> crankshaft, I believe - used in the Phaeton car I'm pretty sure.  )
>
> Wikipedia - lots of info on stuff like engine configurations there, I bet.
>
> Scott
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Grebneff" <goose1047@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 11:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Oettinger syncro van FS
>
>
> Snail-boy, I don't think I've ever seen an 'S' shaped engine. I have seen
> an
>
>> I5 - 'I' for Inline... =)
>>
>
> I use S for Straight, as in a Buick Straight-8.
>
> "I" is confusing, as it is alsu osed to indicate that the crankshaft
> lies along the car's axis (as opposed to transverse, where the crank
> lies across the car... or bike).
>
> Straight-4, straight-5 etc.
>
> --
> Regards
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
> Fossil preparator
> Mollusc, Toyota & VW van fan
>

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