Ut oh.....
Someone just compared a Volkswagen to a Lancia....
Where's Walt Spak?

-Craig

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Jake de Villiers <
crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Jake
>
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> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>
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>
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