Basic knowledge

[frodefe]

A interesting site which i visit now and then


http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/engine-flat-4.gif


allot of stuff for the "autophile" :lol:
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/

[yg60m]

Thank you, i added it to my favorites. It's very interresting. :D

[pedrohmb]

Is it a boxer engine??

[dylan99]

Great site now I understand more about cars and other things and how they work.
Thanx.

[Wutputt]

Is it a boxer engine??
Yes, because: opposite cilinders are mounted with an angle of 180°, and during the compression phase or exhaust phase, opposite pistons are 'boxing' away from each other

[zevolv]

The official name is an opposed cylinder engine but the accepted name is boxer.

[veteq]

Excellet site

PS: the boxer engines are great except for the rough idle they all seem to share.
They sound great though

[bmwdakias]

Great site, the first time i visited it i spent about four hours in front of the screen reading for all sort of things.

[bmwdakias]

Great site, the first time i visited it i spent about four hours in front of the screen reading for all sort of things.

[Toronto]

[quote="zevolv"]The official name is an opposed cylinder engine but the accepted name is boxer.[/quot

yet they and most of the auto world call it a flat (eg. flat 4cyl)

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine-flat.htm

[zevolv]

Porsche calls it a Boxer engine on their site actually
And Subaru calls it a Horizontallyy Opposed engine on their site
and those are the only two that I know of that use that layout.

[gottacatchup]

haha i've used that site before mainly for visual aids to explain how rotary engines work to my gf.

[Evo]

Yeah I use that site a lot .. It got a lot of useful information.... I accully learn something fron that site more than I learn at school.. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

[undien717]

Yeah- that site is very useful not just for car info, but info for many other mechanical devices and how they work.

[crazidude]

I loved that site. Used it to help with my networking management course. My teacher had a test based on it a while ago, I barely passed lol. I had to draw the dam pictures they had.

[RC45]

Porsche calls it a Boxer engine on their site actually
And Subaru calls it a Horizontallyy Opposed engine on their site
and those are the only two that I know of that use that layout.

Uhm - so basically you are saying you never knew that Porsche was using the flat-4 design in the 1930's? (this following Hitlers order to produce a car for less than 1000 marks...)

[spd]

Thank You, The site has tons of useful information

[zevolv]

Porsche calls it a Boxer engine on their site actually
And Subaru calls it a Horizontallyy Opposed engine on their site
and those are the only two that I know of that use that layout.

Uhm - so basically you are saying you never knew that Porsche was using the flat-4 design in the 1930's? (this following Hitlers order to produce a car for less than 1000 marks...) Are you high? a flat-4 is called an opposed 4 cylinder also known as a boxer engine by Porsche.

[nthfinity]

dont forget the 180 degree v12's from the Testarossa! although, ive heard it refered to as the flat plane crank design :-D

[Vansquish]

How about the Ferrari 512BB ? It had a Flat 12. It was used in its successors, the Testarossa, the 512TR and the F512M, as well as a ton of race cars in the 60's and 70's...for instance the 312PB.

[RC45]

Porsche calls it a Boxer engine on their site actually
And Subaru calls it a Horizontallyy Opposed engine on their site
and those are the only two that I know of that use that layout.

Uhm - so basically you are saying you never knew that Porsche was using the flat-4 design in the 1930's? (this following Hitlers order to produce a car for less than 1000 marks...) Are you high? a flat-4 is called an opposed 4 cylinder also known as a boxer engine by Porsche.

No fucktard - I am not high - but your intelligence is low.... I was simply affirming other peoples statements that this engine layout is most often referred to as a flat layout.

You were trying to inform others that it is more often called a boxer or horizontally opposed layout - and never referred to as a flat layout.

In this respect you are wrong - as the engine layout, as pointed out by many, many folks is more commonly called flat, with horizontally opposed probably coming in a distant second - and then boxer a very distant third - and the 180 degree V a close 4th (bet you never knew that a straight line is also a 180 degree angle... ;) - look that up in your Haynes Fuel Injection Repair Guide....

The common name of the layout was the point of all our replys.

[fraud]

i honestly think that every assignment i've done since 2000 has in some way been plaigarised from that site...