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Kind of like a flat four or six engine versus inline/V6.
by throwthere 4y ago
Kind of like a flat four or six engine versus inline/V6.
- red369 4y agoFlat fours and sixes definitely have a balance advantage over V6 engines, but I’m not sure there is much difference to a straight (in-line) four or six. They are also perfectly balanced until some higher order harmonic (something I can’t really remember at the moment). The advantage of flat engines are that they are much shorter, but then they’re heavier and more complicated because they have to have two heads. (Edited a typo in first sentence)
- t0mas88 4y agoThe 6 in-line is the least vibrating one of the options, but the 4 is very close.
- red369 4y agoWere you including flat engines in that statement? Like, an online 6 is better balanced than a flat 6? If not, do you happen to know how a flat 6 compared with an inline 6 for vibrations/balance? A quick search didn’t find me anything. I know flat engines have to offset the cylinders a little.
- nickff 4y agoInline sixes are better-balanced than flat sixes.
- roamerz 4y agoNot necessarily. If memory serves GM had a V6 in the 70’s or 80’s that had offset crank journals to make each firing stroke 120 degrees apart. I think it was the 4.3