The Flat Plane Crank explained
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specizripn, great write up! My questions are: how are they going to balance this? And have they actually come up with a bundle-of-snakes exhaust? Because half the advantages of a flat plane crank are wasted if you can't take advantage of the exhaust timing.
Also, I can't believe I just now found your initial write up. Why doesn't anyone tell me about these things?
Also, I can't believe I just now found your initial write up. Why doesn't anyone tell me about these things?
+1
I remember reading this thread when it was initially posted! Quite cool to see it actually happen.
it will be interesting to see how the gt350 takes to mods.
This was great foresight lol.
One note. The loss of torque he mentions is partially due to the lack of counter weights. One function that affects torque is the weight swinging around in there. An example, swap a steel flywheel and put an aluminum one, and off idle torque drops significantly. Same principle. Can it be reversed with engineering? Absolutely. But that would affect reving and high rpm operation.
^^ I'm having some trouble with your throught process here? The weight of the parts has no direct effect on torque, but if anything removing rotational mass would improve torque; think driveshaft, rims/tires, flywheel...
One benefit of a flat plane crank is not needing a "bundle of snakes" to properly scavenge exhaust.
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