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Enzo Museum in Modena, Italy

Discussion in '365 GT4 2+2/400/412' started by palmer_md, Sep 23, 2018.

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  1. palmer_md

    palmer_md Karting

    Feb 26, 2014
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    Michael
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/vzmT9z65X2dkwxveA
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/x74MZa28u5ZeFLCPA
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    I was on a business trip to Modena and stopped in to see the museum quickly. Beautiful place and lots of very nice cars. Nice to see an example of the 400 on display. Also saw the strangest motor I'd ever seen. Was called a double V, which makes it into a flat engine since the two V's meet at one cylinder head for the two pistons. I looked for more information about this engine, but could not find anything that explained it in a way I felt the person knew what they were talking about. Lots of guessing.
     
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  2. rovexienus

    rovexienus Formula Junior
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    Jun 10, 2010
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    Jean-Michel Savary
    Thanks for these pictures. The double V6 engine is shown in the book "Tutti I Motori Ferrari" among many other engines covering the period 1947 (125S) till 2002 (Enzo). The engine has a "diamond" shape with two crankshafts on opposite corners and two heads on the other opposite corners. So indeed two cylinders share one combustion chamber. This 12 cylinder engine is very short.
     
  3. Ferraridoc

    Ferraridoc F1 World Champ
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    Someone had too much time on their hands. It looks awful, and impossible to package
     
  4. raemin

    raemin Formula 3

    Jan 16, 2007
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    This looks like a prototype, these motors are not "as polished" as production ones. The specific format with short length and low CG could make sense in very specific applications.

    It could be a way to circumvent stringent legislation? After all the only "mass production" (by ferrari's standard) motor was the dino v6, combining 2 of these this way would have allowed to keep same crankshaft(s) and lower engine? Remember when bmw 2.0 v6 blocks where used as a basis for competition? don't know how the lawmakers would have classified this.
     
  5. George Vosburgh

    George Vosburgh F1 Rookie
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    Yes, I thought the choice of cars was very interesting. I liked having them up on podiums so you could really appreciate the lines, but it was very hard to look at the interiors. I'm not sure if the double V was on display when we were there last year.
     

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