its a very kick ass W-9 engine W-9 technical data 9 cylinder four-stroke engine in W formation with 3 cylinder rows. Cylinder volume: 2977 cm? ( 182 in?) Bore: 90 mm Stroke: 52 mm Max rpm: 12500 Compression: 12,7:1 W-angle: 60°-0°-60° Fuel: Ethanol, E85 Head layout: 4-valve, 20° included valve angle Dimensions: LxWxH, 434x623x448mm (17,1x24,5x17,6 ") Weight: 118 kg ( 262 lbs) complete with exhaust system Max torque (est.): 380 Nm ( 280 lbs-ft)@ 7200 rpm (bmep: 15,7 bar ; 228 psi) Max power (est.): 526 hp@ 10700 rpm (bmep: 14,6 bar ; 211 psi), dimensioned for Tri-Turbo 1005 hp http://www.atomracing.se/index.html
looks like a octopus...lol would it even fit...how many litres is it...how much power......or doesnt it even run!!
Cylinder volume: 2977 cm? ( 182 in?) This would be the total engine capacity so 3 litres. 526hp's pretty good for a 3 litre NA engine. But it does rev over 10k rpm so that would explain it.
its in my post its a 3 litre with 526hp in NA from but they are thinking of doing it with 3 turbos with and estimated 1000hp on 1bar and its not that big the dimensions are 434mm long, 623mm wide and 448mm high and only weighs 118kgs
ha ha yeah can we get some prices on a gb? I would like to out this on my billy-kart from primary school
lol 9 cylanders to 1 crank, wonder why it revs so high looks pretty sweet, but thats alot of stree on the crank ey. way to get more power into a smaller space tho
What? A 9 cylinder engine? Of course! Why not? I ahve seen much wieder things than that work quite reliably. Technically that is not a W9, more of a T9 I suppose. A W configuration is like 2 V's stuck together, that is like a V and a inline...
Read (scanned) the thesis And there is not too much reference to real engine data/performance. But I guess it would take the resources of Nissan/Toyota/GM/Ford to really test it out. A single student can only do so much. Looks like he actually built the engine, but not much info on how it ran. I personally don't see the need to make such a compact engine. I love the LONG bonnet of the E-type, even the 240Z - 280ZX has a much nicer front end than the 300ZX. The longer the bonnet, the bigger your ego. It would be nice though to have 1.5 engines @4.5l in place of the 3l V6 in the ZED
