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V6 Engines and the Inline configuration: The Panagora Blog

V6 Engines and the Inline configuration: The Panagora Blog

 

The V-6 is not inherently balanced. It requires expressive and heavy counter rotating balance shafts to approach (but still not equal) the smoothness of an inline six. Most V-6 engines are made in 90° configuration because most passenger cars do not have adequate room for a 120° configuration and 30° would require a block nearly as long as an inline to separate the cylinders. In order have evenly spaced cylinder firings on a 90° V-6, the crankshaft cannot have two connecting rods on a single throw of the crank unless that throw is machined to have two differently timed bearing centers, adding to the expense and complicity. General Motors did have a V-6 120° truck engine back in the ‘60s, but it was BIG.

If equipped with overhead cams, the V engine is very wide, and takes up a lot of limited under hood space. The biggest advantage to a V-6, is in autos with engines set in cross ways because they are shorter than inline sixes, and they fit with transmission in normal width cars. Although there are exceptions, most modern V-6 engines are built for front wheel drive cars, where the short length justifies the greater expense and complication compared to inline sixes while delivering less pronounce pulses in power flow than a four cylinder.

In other cases you can find V-6 engines in vehicles where they are used mostly because they are made with the same tooling as the front drive engines and using common tooling and parts saves money. In these cases the V-6 is often used because the surface area to displacement is lower that a V-8, therefore losing less energy to the cooling system.

Heat losses to the cooling system and down the exhaust are the two greatest causes of wasted fuel efficiency.

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