You're Not Prepared For How Cool A V14 Engine Would Sound

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You're astir apt acquainted pinch nan high-pitched whine of a flat-plane engine aliases nan heavy rumble of a cross-plane American V8. If you're fortunate enough, you whitethorn person heard and knowledgeable nan harmonious sounds of a V12 aliases nan tremendously bassy W16. But person you wondered what a 14-cylinder motor would sound like, specifically 1 pinch a "V" configuration?

Unfortunately, location are nary accumulation cars pinch a V14. But a definite IceManV93 demonstrates what a simulated V14 could sound like. Spoiler alert: it sounds incredibly unrefined, for illustration a really exotic lawnmower aliases a CNC machine. But a 2nd video shows a much refined V14 that could find its measurement into a Ferrari, should nan Italian marque ever determine to do so. Unlike nan erstwhile simulation, this V14 sounds much for illustration an angrier V10. Some mightiness opportunity it sounds eerily akin to Bugatti's caller V16.

Inspect closely, and you'll recognize nan first V14 has a 90-degree slope perspective and seems to beryllium firing unevenly. The 2nd V14 has a narrower slope angle, and judging by nan sound, it's apt person to its earthy 51.4-degree firing interval (720÷14). This is an assumption, though, based connected examples for illustration nan even-firing LFA V10 and galore 60-degree V12s that stock akin slope angles and firing intervals. For context, nan LFA's V10 contrasts (in some sound and design) pinch nan Lamborghini Huracan's uneven-firing V10, which uses a 90-degree slope perspective alternatively of 72. In practice, however, nan weird 51.4-degree perspective is thing much than an inconvenience, and utilizing a communal 90-degree divided makes nan motor almost sound for illustration it's falling apart.

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Understand that a V14 is fundamentally 2 inline-sevens. DRIVETRIBE explains why seven-cylinder engines are not commonly utilized — astatine least, not successful nan automotive space. Without getting excessively overmuch into nan weeds, a seven-cylinder (and result a V14) fundamentally ruins nan superior and secondary forces successful perfectly balanced six-cylinder and 12-cylinder engines. Not only that, but you're looking astatine a comparatively longer crank to accommodate nan added hardware, which will apt consequence successful much flex and weight. Packaging is besides thing that's worthy mentioning.

Still, overseas cylinder configurations aren't rare. There are three-cylinder, five-cylinder, and 10-cylinder automotive engines retired there. But these typically characteristic a balancer shaft to soft things out. However, an inline-seven simply makes things much analyzable erstwhile location isn't overmuch to gain. The risk-reward ratio warrants going pinch either a six-pot aliases possibly moreover a straight-eight. Sure, nan second demands making nan crankshaft moreover longer, but nan motor is much balanced than a seven-cylinder because it's fundamentally 2 inline fours. And a V16 is 2 straight-eights. So if you really want to push past 12 cylinders, going up to 16 is simply a overmuch amended bet.

That's not to opportunity location aren't immoderate seven-cylinder aliases 14-cylinder engines retired there. You'll typically find them successful business aliases marine applications. Take nan MAN 49/60DF, a mammoth of an motor disposable successful seven- aliases nine-cylinder configuration, successful summation to a V14 setup. Keep successful mind that this engine's max rpm standing is 600, which is simply a full different engineering situation compared to Bugatti's Cosworth-supplied V16 pinch 9,000 rpm.