Not exact matches
That outdated engine had just two valves per
cylinder controlled by a
single camshaft over each
cylinder bank.
The BMW M760Li xDrive V12 — which we'll refer to as the M760 from now on to save your bandwidth — packs a 6592cc, 12 -
cylinder engine behind its kidney grilles, with each
bank of the vee granted its own
single - scroll turbocharger.
The
single bank of
cylinders may be oriented in either a vertical or an inclined plane with all the pistons driving a common crankshaft.
Each
cylinder bank's five throttles are actuated from a
single shaft.
Instead of all
cylinders of each
bank feeding their exhaust into a
single path, there are two paths for the exhaust to travel from
cylinders to each turbine.
The new M V8 engine with twin - scroll twin turbo technology uses a
single exhaust manifold with tuned - length runners, incorporating both
cylinder banks and connecting
cylinders in carefully selected pairs.
A straight engine is considerably easier to build than an otherwise equivalent horizontally opposed or V engine, because both the
cylinder bank and crankshaft can be milled from a
single metal casting, and it requires fewer
cylinder heads and camshafts.
A
single conventional turbo will be placed between the two
cylinder banks.
The hardware list includes super-stiff forged billet steel crankshaft, forged, weight - matched connecting rods and pistons, lightweight AMG - specific chain - driven
single overhead camshafts V8 (one cam per
cylinder bank) with two intake and one exhaust valves per
cylinder, as well as 8 coil packs and 16 spark plugs (two spark plugs per
cylinder).