Whats the difference between 16V and V16 engines? Whats so good about V8 engines? whats in normal cars??

Answer 1

16v means sixteen valves, i.e 4 per cylinder in a 4 cylinder, and 2 in an 8 cylinder. a v16 means 16 cylinders lined up in a v of 2 in-line 8 cylinders. v8s sound fantastic, are easy to maintain and make good horsepower, but they're big, thirsty and not very good to the evnironment. most normal cars have a 4 cylinder e.g golf, corolla, etc. suv's have v8's and bmw's and mercedes have v6's.

Answer 2

A 16V engine has 16 valves, for a V8 that would be 2 per piston, while a 4 cylinder would have 4.
A V16 would have 16 pistons. I don't know of any out there in cars right now.
That is provided the "Normal" designations are being used by the person making the identification.
V8 engines are more easily designed and maybe to balance. However they have more internal resistance then a 6 cylinder engine. Another draw back on the V8's (and 4 cyl) engines is that a piston is bottom dead center of the power stroke just as another is reaching top dead center of the compression stroke. A 3 cylinder engine has no such problem and there for "wraps out" faster for a give horse power.
So while a V8 may have the advantage in weight per cubic displacement, it has other inherent design problems.
These are only a few of the problems facing engine selection design problems. There are others I hope others address.
As for what is normal- I think in the US V6's are most common.

Answer 3

A 16V engine is a 4 cylinder engine with 4 valves for each cylinder, two intake and two exhaust valves each. A V16 engine is an engine with 16 cylinders arranged with 8 cylinders on either side in a V pattern.

A V8 is like the V16, but with 4 cylinders on either side of the V. The original 8 was a straight 8. It produced a lot of power, but the engine was very long. The V pattern shortens the engine block and makes it lighter in weight, so the power to weight ratio of the car is better for higher speeds. The drawback to an 8 cylinder engine is fuel consumption.

The "normal" engine today is probably a V6 or a 4 cylinder engine. This is primarily because of fuel prices and engineers have found ways of getting a lot of performance out of smaller engines.

Answer 4

A 16 V engine has 16 valves or in most cases 4 cylinders with 4 valves in each
A V16 has 16 cylinders in two banks of 8. Bugatti has a V16
A V8 is a better balanced engine than an in-line 4 for instance but also will take up less room than if all 8 cylinders were in line as in some old cars
Having said that you can get a V8 engine that is 1 litre capacity , but also get a V8 that is over 8 litre

Answer 5

A 16V means 16 valves. This is how many intake an exhaust valves are in the engine. Usually, a higher number means a higher power engine.

V16 is the style of the engine and how many cylanders are in the engine.

V8 engines tend to be the most common used in Pickup trucks and sports cars. Overall, since the design for most V8 engines has remained relatively unchanged over the past 50 years, they're known to be very reliable.

In normal cars, the engine varies on what kind of car it is. Smaller cars, such as the Ford Focus, or Chevy Aveo usually have a smaller 3 or 4 cylander engine.
Mid size cars such as the Ford Taurus and the Toyota Corolla usually have a V6 engine.
Full-size cars such as the Ford Crown Victoria have traditionally had a V8 for power to move the size of the vehicle.
SUV's can vary from a 4 cylander, such as the Honda Element, to a 6 cylander in the Ford Escape/Maverick. An 8 cylander engine tends to be in the full size SUV's. And in some cases, a 10 cylander engine is available such as the case of the Ford Excursion.

Answer 6

V16 Engine

Answer 7

I think 16V means 16 valves or something, while V16 means 16 cylinders. Don't mind, any of them can be a name.
V8 engines means they have 8 cylinders in their engines. These kind of cars produce more power than ordinary cars, and are either luxury cars or sports cars.
Normal cars have 4 or 6 cylinders.

Answer 8

In a four cylinder engine, there are typically either 8 valves (one exhaust and one intake valve per cylinder) or 16 valves(two of each).

In an engine where the bore (width) of the cylinder is wider than the stroke is long, there is a lot of room for a couple of big valves (1 intake, 1 exhaust). These engines typically run slower than engines with more valves, because big valves are heavier than small ones, and the springs that close them have a hard time closing the bigger valves fast enough as the engine runs faster and faster. (Remember, at 6,000 rpm, valves have to open and close 100 times a second, and they have to do it in about 1/1000 of a second.)

These engines are designed to develop lots of torque (basically thrust) at lower speeds, but 'run out of breath' at higher rpm, when the valve springs can't close the valves fast enough.

As you can imagine, the more power cycles (explosions) an engine can generate in a given amount of time, the more power is produced. So an engine that is capable of running at higher speed ('rpm' or 'revolutions per minute') will produce more maximum horsepower than a similar size engine that runs slower.

That's why more valves are considered better.

As for V8s, there are a couple of reasons to use this configuration.

Smoothness: As engines get bigger, all those big pistons going up and down in the cylinders set up a lot of vibration. If you have more pistons, they can be balanced against each other to smooth out the power flow.

But adding cylinders makes an engine longer, which takes up inches that could be used for passengers and cargo. Putting two four cylinder engines side-by-side, at angles to each other, and connecting them to the same crankshaft, gets you twice the cylinders at almost no increase in length.

RPMs: This is another solution to the problem of valve mass limiting rpms. Double the number of cylinders, and you halve the size of the valves. (If you keep the engine size the same.)

As for 'normal,' for economy cars, entry-level family cars, and light sports cars, four cylinder engines with sixteen valves are normal these days.

For upscale family cars & sports cars, a V6 with 24 valves is common.

V8s used to be the norm in the US, but now are uncommon in cars other than entry-level luxury cars and above, and high performance sports cars.

There are odd-ball three and five cylinders, but not many.

Get into expensive luxury cars, sports cars, and exotics, and you'll find V10s and V12s, and even W16s (two V8s on a common crankshaft). V16s (two straight eights on a common crankshaft) used to be found in Super-luxury cars like Cadillacs and Marmons back in the '30s, but there are none of these you could buy today.

For added sportiness, some cars have a compressor (Supercharger or Turbocharger) to force more fuel/air mixture into the combustion chamber for bigger 'bangs' in each power stroke. There is one supercar that has four!

I hope we answered your question. Drive safely.

Answer 9

V16 Cars

Answer 10

16 v has 16 valves..a v 16 has 16 pistons...a v8... seems to be the a good compromise of size..ease of build...Mpg and they sound good...Thats for a medium to large car or truck...no one size or type is best.or normal