Talk:Cizeta-Moroder V16T

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How is it not a "True V16" If it is a 16 cylinder engine block, it is a 16 cylinder engine no matter how it is built. It is not two seperate v8s. . . BMan1113VR 06:37, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

It's a 16 cylinder engine made up of two V8s, which each have their own separate heads and crankshafts. Between the two V8s, there is some gearing which joins their outputs together. It's like this:
+--------+         +--------+
|O O O O |         |O O O O |
|  (V8)  |-(gears)-|  (V8)  |
| O O O O|    |    | O O O O|
+--------+    |    +--------+
              |
        (output shaft)
       +--------------+
(axle)-|(transmission)|-(axle)
       +--------------+
The whole engine is one big casting, not some hacked-together job with two truly separate engines, but from an engineering perspective it's not a V16. It's two V8s geared together. As you can see, it's a clever design which is very compact and gives good weight distribution. A V16 would have to be mounted longitudinally and would result in a very long car. TomTheHand 20:59, 19 June 2007 (UTC)