What is the difference between them? Does it depend on horsepower only? Is there any motorcar with a V14 engine?
2007-09-03 01:45:07 · 8 answers · asked by Th3 Gripmast3r 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Other - Car Makes
The letter is the engine configuration, the number is the number of cylinders.
V is a V shaped engine.
W is basically two Vs put together
I is inline
F or H is a flat/horizontal (used by Porsche and Subaru).
There are currently no V4 engines in cars. The Inline configuration greatly increases power over the V configuration, so for tiny engines Inlines are used.
2007-09-03 02:09:27 · answer #1 · answered by Showtunes 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing to do with horsepower. It's the piston configuration. The more pistons, say a V12, the smoother the engine. V12 is as much as is usually used for car engines. There's no reason why more couldn't be used, but they're not. The only difference is the number of pistons. The capacity of the motor usually increases with the number of cylinders, but doesn't have to be. Some V6's are only 2 litres and others are 4 litres. Some V8's are 3 litres up to 6 litres. There's no gain in power from using more cylinders, the only gain is smoothness,
2007-09-03 01:55:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only major difference is number of cylinders. as for horsepower generally yes the more cylinders the more horsepower. say you have a V6 with cylinders that are four inches wide now a V12 with the same cylinder size would have tons more power. now take and decrease the cylinder size of the V12 to say 3 inches you don't get as much of a raise in horse power but the engine will last longer because it is running smoother. now a V16 in say the lambos generally doesn't have a whole lot of horse advantage to a V8 in say a corvette that is because the cylinders in the V16 are smaller than that of the V8 but if you took a V16 with the same size cylinder of the V8 it would smoke the corvette. as for the V14 i personally don't know of one but that doesn't mean that they don't or didn't use it.
2007-09-03 17:09:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
aranging the pistons in a V makes the engine compact not as long as a straight 8 cyl. The more Cyl's the smoother the engine becomes. And as an added bonus more horsepower. VW has expermented with W-16 engines three rows of Cyl's (Bugatti Veyron) 16.4 essentially 4 GTI V6 engines One of the fastest cars on the planet. Currently I cannot think of a 14 cyl car.
2007-09-03 01:57:56 · answer #4 · answered by John Paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
V4 - 4 cylinder car - best on gas - but also the slowest
V8 - 8 cylinder - usually trucks- large cars and SUV's
V10 - Dodge Viper has this engine so do trucks
V12 - Jaguar and others
V16 - Bughatti Veyron the only one I know of 4 turbos - 1001HP
2007-09-03 02:08:22 · answer #5 · answered by cgriffin1972 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
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2016-05-20 00:38:59 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it tells you the amount of cylinders v4 is a 4 cylinder in v shape so is v6,8,10,12
there is even a W version Volkswagen for example the touareg has a W10 engine.
it's not so much horsepower as it is traction Nm you'll get,
2007-09-03 01:56:37 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
cylinder's
2007-09-03 02:00:18 · answer #8 · answered by jimi c 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋