@@girlsdrinkfeck I can't deny that electric is the future but can't say I'm happy about it yet anyway. Engines fascinate me always have and always will can't beat the sound off an old 500cc 2stroke gp bike or a V10 screamer from 1990s F1.
@@Jrv3192 in the past two weeks I've taken delivery of my first electric car. I'm a massive petrol head but even I concede that electric cars are nicer to drive and live with than a petrol or diesel. Everyone comments on how smooth, quick and quiet it is. Range is still an issue and I've kept my old ICE car for practical reasons. Although I personally think Hydrogen is the future of green motoring.
Not really innovation engines have been mated together like this before it's more of a total waste people can make reliable 4 cylinders that make more power then this so something this massive impractical that will need a huge amount of maintenance to work is a pointless waste of money. Don't get me wrong it is very cool beautiful absolutely crazy but at the end of the day a waste
Don't know if you've heard of Allen Millyard? He does that kind of thing! He put a Dodge Viper engine into a bike frame, has built a V-12 2.6L Kawasaki and has a 5 litre V-TWIN made from an aircraft engine!
Not very efficient though. 100HP/Liter isn't to great. A Huracan for example has 123HP/Liter. Even the 22 year old Honda S2000 had 120HP/Liter. Sure this thing will probably sound amazing. But it isn't dealbreaking. Just a combination of many engine technologies.
@@maYdaY1337 uhh... my truck is 53 hp per liter lol. Also Gordon Murray's t50 has 164 hp per liter, naturally aspirated. The real way to compare engines is horsepower per liter per revolution, which explains why my ~5000 rpm engine looks terrible in hp/liter compared to a 12100 rpm t50 engine Edit: look at engineering explained BMEP video
If I could afford any of the Connaught brand I would have it! From just an engine to an entire car! I love what they are doing and wish them success! Thank you Drivetribe for showing the world these wonderful people and what they do!
I think the insanity of it is the point, rather than any practical use. Ofc you can get tons more power from a smaller engine these days but who said there's no room for crazy people who go "What if we made a X48 engine" just for kicks?
@@aaronburratwood.6957 You have your companies mixed up there bud.The LFA's engine was co-developed with Yamaha. Source: web.archive.org/web/20091024071924/www.lexusgb-press.co.uk/protected/releases/2009/58915lex.htm
Love the philosophy of this company. It essentially sounds like they are just doing what they enjoy and put just about enough "business" into it, that their passion, their hobby is paying the bills.
I take it that you have never see inside an engineer's garage or shed. It just seems to be one of those things that where creative minds in all manner of fields of expertise seem to surround themselves in organised chaos.
Cuz that's just Bri'ish in'nit Sorry I just couldn't resist but seriously I have much respect for this team and hope they will not only revive connought but be successful in many more ventures
Yeah, so if you think those perfectly clean/polished factory lines where robots are welding up 911 chassis is how engineering shops are supposed to look, then... yeah.
Very impressive engines, but please, please show us more of the bike that was off to the side of the x20. The brief glimpses we got, it looked stunning! 🙏
As a R32 owner, the fact there's other Vr engines on the way makes me very happy. The exhaust note makes us R(v6 R owners not the 4 bangers) owners hard as morning. Hopefully we can buy these globally. Keep grinding guys love the ambition, make a go fund me!
It's a functional gimmick some rich guy would use to show off to his other rich friends "I bet you don't have a *twin v10* powered supercar in your fleet"...
@@simonsackett yes, but the 4 cylinder F20C (the engine from the Honda S2000) is N/A and that makes 120 bhp/L. Also mating crankshafts through gearing is gonna result in unnecessary drivetrain losses. I don't see the point of this engine. Now if they balanced it out perfectly and it revs over 15.000 RPM that would be something else. It would also be a lot more powerful.
This was my thought as well. It's cool, but it creates more problems than it solves. In fact, it doesn't solve any that I can see. I bet it was fun building.
I love theses guys ... We create as mutch as possible and if people want it we build it. Thank you that there are still people out there like these guys
@@mattmatthews5414 Nah, they're great. F-91W £10, sturdy, does the basics well. Design is subdued enough to go with anything, hasn't changed since 1989.
8:30 they might wanna run that design past Lexus' lawyers - the back end looks just like the LFA, even down to the exhausts mounted in a triangular fashion.
1:17 He said it has *2* valves per cylinder ! So yes it has 40 valves. It's an old V10 engine...only the gearbox is from a Lambo. I can't believe 30 morons gave you a like...can you people pay attention? 😂 Attention span of a toddler...let me guess...you like Tik-Tok? 😂
It depends how the engines are timed and how the exhaust manifolds are configured. With a V engine of any angle, you can use a flatplane crank and have uneven timing and an easily machined crank, or a traditional crankshaft with even timing. The two configurations have different characteristics for vibration and for designing intake and exhaust tuning. With an X engine, you can time the two halves like a flat engine (180 degree V), alternating between banks, or like a boxer engine where each piston is paired with one in the opposing bank. Again, the choice has consequences for vibration and tuning. With the two halves mated via gearing, they won't have problems trying to ensure the bores in each half intersect with the crank axis like a boxer does, but they will have classic boxer issues like having to take the engine out to change headgaskets.
@@EmyrDerfel you missed the part where this engine has two crankshafts. It's not a true X engine at all, it's two V's with gear-snychronized crankshafts.
@@EmyrDerfel it does, since it's just 2 V10s each with the same firing order strapped together. It will just sound like a V10, because it's just the firing order of a V10.
@@MrsMcMuffin No, because you can either have cylinder 1 of each V10 firing in sync like a boxer, or gear cylinder 1 of the second v10 to fire between two firings of the first v10, so you'll have twice the number of bangs per revolution.
I have been dreaming up a 4 bank motor that uses Suzuki Hayabusa internals, the radical crank(from their V8 "hayabusa motor) and then combining the two cranks into one output shaft. This video just inspired me to keep working on it.
I have never been so excited about a car company than I have with Connaught. I though all was lost after the long search for the Type D, but here we are now!
X engines dont have 2 cranks. Look at T14 armatas ChTZ X-12 engine it only has 1 crank in the middle of the X. H engines use two cranks and they are similar in layout to X engines. This is a H engine like in those WW2 Hawker Typhoon aircraft not an X engine
H would be a Boxer, this is NOT a boxer. The X designation has to do with the piston configuration, not the crankshaft. If you want to be pedantic this is a double V 10.
But not naturally aspirated. That's the point of the x20, 400+ hp na , with possibility to supercharge or twin turbo it to get more power .. they also explain they aimed for better mpg as the competition gives right now on the V10 setups.
@@FloridaCams No but my first car was an El Camino with a modified 350 that did 400ish hp and the engine probably was half the weight / less than half the cylinders and made in the 60s. Acting as if 400 hp is special to hit NA is hilarious. Then to say they needed a lambo transmission for all the power killed me. Only real positive thing about the setup is the low center of the weight.
I honestly don't see the point of such an engine, a single V10 from 15 years ago could make more power. Points for creativity though, those guys are the kind of crazy the world needs hahahaha
I want a v12 of theirs :D it would be 2.2 litres and be about 250HP and SUPER smoothe :D Economical with great sound and power throughout the rev range
The specific output is sitting at 100 hp/l. Which is the same ad s mclaren F1 engine, so don't understand why everyone is saying the engine is weak. That's a load of bollocks.
I thought he was gonna say it produces like a 1,500 herspers But 400? For that size i think u can get a v6/or v8 with same size and same or more herspers
@@sneaky_krait7271 I didn't know about the engine, just saw two v10s stuck together, thought it was gonna have more power, i didnt watch the previous episode tho
Too many cylinders-too much internal friction-A balance needs to be sought between individual cylinder size and number of cylinders in order to maximise power output.
@ around 400bhp, I would have thought it was obvious they are not after maximum power output. It's a functional gimmick some rich guy would use to show off to his other rich friends "I bet you don't have a twin v10 powered supercar in your fleet"...
@@jameshobbs Nothing says you can’t hook an electric motor up to a manual transmission. The only reason would be for fun, you wouldn’t need the clutch or even trans but it would be an experience to drive.
Really cool stuff, does seem like a bunch of blokes living in the middle of know where that have never yet seen what direction modern transport is or has gone lol by the time they master all this to perfection everyone will be driving hydrogen cars lol 🤘🤘🤘
400hp out of a V10 don't seem like much but then think of it's context... sure you could make a dinky 1.8l do 400hp but how many times will you be rebuilding it? BMW V10 is only like 300-400hp yet they are quite reliable (unless you are an unlucky second hand owner of an abused one)
An x20 engine. It's crazy and awesome. But I can't help but think that a crate ls would be a much cheaper, less complicated, and much more reliable way of getting 400hp NA.
Hey, I wanted an X-24 with four turbos and four superchargers. That motorcycle in the background at 1:08 is amazing. Let's put the engine into its big brother.
This company can support all their research/business efforts by selling 1200cc v6 engines to car enthusiasts who will gladly give them product feedback and help with the testing and development win win to me
I have heard of W designs like in Bugatti and VW engines, but never an X design! The best part is that the CEO actually claimed that the VR-10 alone is predicted to make 40MPG, so I'm expecting the X-20 to make around 20 to 30MPG with boost, and a killer soundtrack to go along with it!
Can't a Subaru boxer out out 300 on 4 cylinders? 400 on a 20 cylinder NA engine is not something to brag about, that's an ungodly amount of friction loss I bet.
A monumental amount of time and energy to create an oversized engine with an unknown number of degrading issues. 400hp is being achieved by Suzuki Hyabusa drag bikes with a fair amount of reliability. This thing is huge for the displacement and horsepower, I would classify it as a boat anchor.
Getting a specific output of 100hp/L while naturally aspirated is far from terrible actually... Those '70s American engines you mention wouldn't even get half that.
100bhp per litre is nothing like the 70s fuel crisis engines. Those engines were hardly pushing 50bhp per litre. Not many naturally aspirated production engines even surpass the 100bhp per litre mark, so don't throw unfair statements like that about. This engines power output is actually quite an achievement especially considering their limited business and economic parameters.
But it would run smooth as butter and sound like a boys choir.. And to be honest, 400hp in a light(ish) sportscar is enough to have all the fun in the world.
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Love these guys "we built it because we can and none else has" carry on sir
boomers company ,electric is the future and faster , this is a waste of oil
@@girlsdrinkfeck Youre joking right 🤣
@@ShockzZiFy yes and no
@@girlsdrinkfeck I can't deny that electric is the future but can't say I'm happy about it yet anyway. Engines fascinate me always have and always will can't beat the sound off an old 500cc 2stroke gp bike or a V10 screamer from 1990s F1.
@@Jrv3192 in the past two weeks I've taken delivery of my first electric car. I'm a massive petrol head but even I concede that electric cars are nicer to drive and live with than a petrol or diesel.
Everyone comments on how smooth, quick and quiet it is.
Range is still an issue and I've kept my old ICE car for practical reasons.
Although I personally think Hydrogen is the future of green motoring.
"We felt like building it." Slightly cheeky British engineering - executed to prove a point, or perhaps simply to satisfy a bet - at its finest.
I love how these engineers basically go: "F the rules, let's just make what we like and see the response."
There VR Engines are just so cleannnn..
Thats how the most interesting stuff always happens...
Freevalve technology should make that X20 engine smaller and easier to time.
Who tf be seriously investing in one of these? 😂
check out this genius on youtube who is building his own freevalve head for an MX5 ruclips.net/video/k_MrPylnsDg/видео.html
You beat me. I was thinking the same while watching the video
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 they dont strike me as programers so i doubt they have even considered fv, or a broom for that matter
If a 3 cylinder freevalve and 2 turbos can do 600hp... i hope this do at least 1000hp
we need more "crazy" innovative ppl like this.
I need this in a production car
we have lots of crazy innovative people, but most lack funding
We've got no shortage of crazy inventors, what we lack is people who can actually turn their crazy ideas into viable businesses.
This isn't innovative. It's just new.
Not really innovation engines have been mated together like this before it's more of a total waste people can make reliable 4 cylinders that make more power then this so something this massive impractical that will need a huge amount of maintenance to work is a pointless waste of money.
Don't get me wrong it is very cool beautiful absolutely crazy but at the end of the day a waste
Today: We combined two V10 engines.
Next month: We'll load this on a motorcycle.
Tonight on bottom gear
I drive a X20 car
Hammond Runs away to remote island,
And James pumps his bike.
Don't know if you've heard of Allen Millyard? He does that kind of thing! He put a Dodge Viper engine into a bike frame, has built a V-12 2.6L Kawasaki and has a 5 litre V-TWIN made from an aircraft engine!
Alan if you see this you need to make an X engine bike from say 4 of those Yamaha 250s you used for Honda 6 replica.
Next year: we combined two 22.5° V16 engines to see what it would sound like.
What a cool place, they must have a huge amount of fun. Its fantastic that they exist, and turn out these unusual engineering eccentricities
Many cylinder and manual. Those are the days, wait it is new!
Not very efficient though. 100HP/Liter isn't to great. A Huracan for example has 123HP/Liter. Even the 22 year old Honda S2000 had 120HP/Liter.
Sure this thing will probably sound amazing. But it isn't dealbreaking. Just a combination of many engine technologies.
@@maYdaY1337 yes you cannot compare to Honda. If Honda make V12 V-tec, it will easily make more HP/Liter.
@@GF-mf7ml HP/Liter does not scale well with cylinder count. The more cylinders you have the more friction and pumping losses you'll get.
@@maYdaY1337 uhh... my truck is 53 hp per liter lol. Also Gordon Murray's t50 has 164 hp per liter, naturally aspirated. The real way to compare engines is horsepower per liter per revolution, which explains why my ~5000 rpm engine looks terrible in hp/liter compared to a 12100 rpm t50 engine
Edit: look at engineering explained BMEP video
X20 engine : exist
koenigsegg : hold my 3 cylinder
Yeah and the power of the koenigsegg combustion engine is 1.5 times as much soooooooo
Busa v8 is 2.8l and 500hp NA
If I could afford any of the Connaught brand I would have it! From just an engine to an entire car! I love what they are doing and wish them success! Thank you Drivetribe for showing the world these wonderful people and what they do!
the transmission: "I-It won't fit..."
Cursed.
What are you doing step engine
@@goodboy4129 *step engines
@@hamzaehsan3839 😳
What
This company has lots of potential, i want them to succeed
Hearing that little 2-stroke was awesome. I miss the days of that sound being at every moto cross track and dirt field.
These guys and Allen Millyard would get along great
Hahaha😂 yeah
If Allen Millyard got involved they'd be cutting costs down by him using parts from old yamahas aha!
Sounds like an overly complicated way of making 400 hp.
I agree such a massive thing for 400hp, get a 2lts 4pot from amg and has more 400
1910's technology
I think the insanity of it is the point, rather than any practical use.
Ofc you can get tons more power from a smaller engine these days but who said there's no room for crazy people who go "What if we made a X48 engine" just for kicks?
nearly nothing matches hp per litre naturally aspirated straight out of the manufacturer though
With a turbocharger or even two on top you can easily get a few more hp out of that thing
"We can't see it right until we see it wrong", true engineering! 5:30
I’ll take just one V10. The LFA’s V10.
That’s a Kawasaki engineered product if I’m not mistaken. The LFA engine that is.
@@aaronburratwood.6957 You have your companies mixed up there bud.The LFA's engine was co-developed with Yamaha.
Source: web.archive.org/web/20091024071924/www.lexusgb-press.co.uk/protected/releases/2009/58915lex.htm
@@electrikoptik someone who corrects someone without being rude AND provides a source? You my friend are a rare breed on the internet and I respect it
Imagine mating together TWO LFA engines!
@@JROD082384 hold on to your seats you’ll be going to mars !
Love the philosophy of this company. It essentially sounds like they are just doing what they enjoy and put just about enough "business" into it, that their passion, their hobby is paying the bills.
Why their headquarters look like somewhere where they broke in
😂😂
I take it that you have never see inside an engineer's garage or shed. It just seems to be one of those things that where creative minds in all manner of fields of expertise seem to surround themselves in organised chaos.
COMPANIES LIKE THIS START IN A SHED
Cuz that's just Bri'ish in'nit
Sorry I just couldn't resist but seriously I have much respect for this team and hope they will not only revive connought but be successful in many more ventures
Yeah, so if you think those perfectly clean/polished factory lines where robots are welding up 911 chassis is how engineering shops are supposed to look, then... yeah.
I genuinely hope they make it into the market
Very impressive engines, but please, please show us more of the bike that was off to the side of the x20. The brief glimpses we got, it looked stunning! 🙏
Not just me then.
this is the bike you are refering to levismotorcyclecompany.com/
@@spyspeed2640 That's the beauty, thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Would still love to see them cover this bike and hear it fired up...
Oh, the emotions when I heard that 2 stroker. Reminds me of the Wartburg 353 my parents had when I was a kid
What does a V20 sound like? I imagine its like two V10's in unison. I know this because my prototype V\30 sounds like 6 T5's
Maybe a v16
Could be similar to Bugatti's V16, but louder since it's naturally aspirated. Don't know about the pitch.
@@luisk6007 doesn't a Bugatti have a W16, not a V16?
@@electramotive look closely at this V20, I don't see separate heads for each bank
It’ll sound like a pneumatic right angle grinder.
this looks and sounds like a bunch of old schoolers having some crazy fun,all time served and making their wild ideas come to life,bravo.!!
Ive seen one of these before. Jay from the inbetweeners had one in his nissan micra
As a R32 owner, the fact there's other Vr engines on the way makes me very happy. The exhaust note makes us R(v6 R owners not the 4 bangers) owners hard as morning. Hopefully we can buy these globally. Keep grinding guys love the ambition, make a go fund me!
Me: how much fuel do you need?
Engine: yes.
40mpg is pretty impressive
I canNOT wait to hear what that x20 sounds like. Really looking forward to the first start
4 litre 40 valve flat 20 CYLINDER engine!
BHP: 400ish 🤣😂🤣 why lol
Because they can. And thats the point. Not many people have this mindset any more unfortunately.
That's naturally aspirated.
It's a functional gimmick some rich guy would use to show off to his other rich friends "I bet you don't have a *twin v10* powered supercar in your fleet"...
@@simonsackett yes, but the 4 cylinder F20C (the engine from the Honda S2000) is N/A and that makes 120 bhp/L. Also mating crankshafts through gearing is gonna result in unnecessary drivetrain losses. I don't see the point of this engine. Now if they balanced it out perfectly and it revs over 15.000 RPM that would be something else. It would also be a lot more powerful.
This was my thought as well. It's cool, but it creates more problems than it solves. In fact, it doesn't solve any that I can see. I bet it was fun building.
I love theses guys ... We create as mutch as possible and if people want it we build it. Thank you that there are still people out there like these guys
I'm curious to see what the "downhill" banks of cylinders will have for oil management.
Probably a dry sump system
This will produce so much torque the wheels will keep on spinning until they burst
You you can find a V20 engine in a GE Evolution Series Locomotive, but instead of gearbox, they are linked with a DC generator.
Pretty much all trains are hybrids because it's drastically simpler and more efficient
This is so beautifully redundant! So exquisitely overcomplicated! I love it!
I have a Casio wristwatch.
I find that difficult to believe.
@@mattmatthews5414 Nah, they're great. F-91W £10, sturdy, does the basics well. Design is subdued enough to go with anything, hasn't changed since 1989.
9 primaries of equal length, 1 short. Attention to detail is everything with such an undertaking.
At this point i would not be surprised if he say “I build it cuz I bet with a guy at the pub”
Something truly unique, not like in every other YT video.
Great job!
I really want to know the torque that X20 has. That has got to be a lot.
amazing work guys blown away with the 1,2 v6 keep being you !
No engines were started in the making of this film.
Well, actually, one was
Companies like this one make me wish I would have stuck with getting my engineering degree. Love the work they're doing.
8:30 they might wanna run that design past Lexus' lawyers - the back end looks just like the LFA, even down to the exhausts mounted in a triangular fashion.
It’s just an LFA knockoff, they need to do something better
I had thought about turning the V10 into a W20 configuration, but a Boxer 20, oh my! Box 20 will make a great tank or ship engine!
If it was 4valves per cylinder it would be 80valve engine lol
Imagine adjusting valve lash
Better add freevalve system, saves place and weight
1:17
He said it has *2* valves per cylinder ! So yes it has 40 valves. It's an old V10 engine...only the gearbox is from a Lambo.
I can't believe 30 morons gave you a like...can you people pay attention? 😂
Attention span of a toddler...let me guess...you like Tik-Tok? 😂
@@SpaghettiKillah key word is "if"... "IF it had 4 valves per cylinder..."
@@SpaghettiKillah You're lacking attention to detail. Mic Jubba said 'If....'.
Amazing to see this kind of work alive and well, wishing the team well in their endeavours!
So basically, they built a subaru (or porsche) engine with 20 cylinders.
Americans: Heavy breathing
Villiers? As in the guys who built lawnmower engines that we used for mini bikes in the 70’s? Amazing!
It will just sound like two V10’s it’s not strictly a single engine.
It depends how the engines are timed and how the exhaust manifolds are configured. With a V engine of any angle, you can use a flatplane crank and have uneven timing and an easily machined crank, or a traditional crankshaft with even timing. The two configurations have different characteristics for vibration and for designing intake and exhaust tuning.
With an X engine, you can time the two halves like a flat engine (180 degree V), alternating between banks, or like a boxer engine where each piston is paired with one in the opposing bank. Again, the choice has consequences for vibration and tuning.
With the two halves mated via gearing, they won't have problems trying to ensure the bores in each half intersect with the crank axis like a boxer does, but they will have classic boxer issues like having to take the engine out to change headgaskets.
@@EmyrDerfel you missed the part where this engine has two crankshafts. It's not a true X engine at all, it's two V's with gear-snychronized crankshafts.
@@5thearth In terms of sound that doesn't matter at all.
@@EmyrDerfel it does, since it's just 2 V10s each with the same firing order strapped together. It will just sound like a V10, because it's just the firing order of a V10.
@@MrsMcMuffin No, because you can either have cylinder 1 of each V10 firing in sync like a boxer, or gear cylinder 1 of the second v10 to fire between two firings of the first v10, so you'll have twice the number of bangs per revolution.
I have been dreaming up a 4 bank motor that uses Suzuki Hayabusa internals, the radical crank(from their V8 "hayabusa motor) and then combining the two cranks into one output shaft. This video just inspired me to keep working on it.
The Thumbnail looks like a Giant STAR WARS Ship...
I have never been so excited about a car company than I have with Connaught. I though all was lost after the long search for the Type D, but here we are now!
I think V4’s are the future for sports cars... coupled w 4-6 electric motors
There are no v10 engines but vr10 engines. The VR form was developed and used by Volkswagen several years ago.
Solely because:
- 20 is nice even number
- No one has done it
- And because they can
All that, inside a building with roof fall off. Absolute legend
I love the phrase “what a thing!” Keep being you, Mike!
Imagine, how wide the Car will be with that engine.
Considering the size of that transmission, probably not too bad depending on the suspension design.
That 3 cyl sounds just like my old Suzuki GT750! What a gem of an engine, like the old DKW's, who first had them!
X engines dont have 2 cranks. Look at T14 armatas ChTZ X-12 engine it only has 1 crank in the middle of the X. H engines use two cranks and they are similar in layout to X engines. This is a H engine like in those WW2 Hawker Typhoon aircraft not an X engine
It's two horizontal V's with two crankshafts... so it's a "> < 20"
H would be a Boxer, this is NOT a boxer. The X designation has to do with the piston configuration, not the crankshaft. If you want to be pedantic this is a double V 10.
I was literally thinking "How would it be to put two of these V10s together?" recently! Glad to see someone there had the same idea
Meanwhile the GR yaris has a 1.6 L 3 cylinder producing over 250 horses.
But not naturally aspirated. That's the point of the x20, 400+ hp na , with possibility to supercharge or twin turbo it to get more power .. they also explain they aimed for better mpg as the competition gives right now on the V10 setups.
Thanks for sharing this. I love the series about engines🙌
The way he says 400 cracks me up as if that's alot these days
400 is plenty, oh wait.. I suppose you drive a 600bhp Lambo or something.
@@FloridaCams No but my first car was an El Camino with a modified 350 that did 400ish hp and the engine probably was half the weight / less than half the cylinders and made in the 60s.
Acting as if 400 hp is special to hit NA is hilarious. Then to say they needed a lambo transmission for all the power killed me.
Only real positive thing about the setup is the low center of the weight.
Build it and they will come.
Helluva work creed.
I honestly don't see the point of such an engine, a single V10 from 15 years ago could make more power. Points for creativity though, those guys are the kind of crazy the world needs hahahaha
It's just a test of engineering
the v10's from that era were over double the capacity of a single one of these v10s. not exactly a fair comparison. Peak power doesn't rule all.
"Because why not?" is all you'll ever need.
We need to make this video viral people need to know about this company and these engines and the projects these guys make its crazy and mindowing
I seriously thought that this was a machine gun of some sort by looking 😂
I want a v12 of theirs :D it would be 2.2 litres and be about 250HP and SUPER smoothe :D Economical with great sound and power throughout the rev range
Would not get 50hp out of 2 extra cylinders since it's at 100hp to 1l
The specific output is sitting at 100 hp/l. Which is the same ad s mclaren F1 engine, so don't understand why everyone is saying the engine is weak. That's a load of bollocks.
Hp wise that’s about what naturally aspirated can do but how about torque?
Probably because 20 cylinders only complicate it unnecessarily for the 400hp output they are aiming for
I mean 1990s civic has the se hp/l
Tim bishop updated the Tatra 613 back in the day and then worked on the t700, he was also the UK Tatra importer
It's pretty common for 2 strokes to run on synthetic oil..
Throttle body injection for 2 strokes is old news too.
‘69-‘75 Kawasaki Mach Series reborn? 😆😆😆😆😆
Better ask Mr Regular
That 3 cilinder sounds sick!
napier engine company: "Amateurs!"
Archie Scriven knows his history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Sabre
Chrysler Multibank?
D18-25 - now that’s a sound you can’t beat!
Great engineering... A scalable 2stroke would be amazing. I miss that sound soo much
So it has the same power as a 20 year old M5.... great
Your looking at it very basically.
Xdd I couldn’t say it better myself
That's not the point of the engine, did you not listen to a word that was said?
What sounds better you reckon?
Awesome company vision. Be proud of yourselves. Great interview also.
I mean it looks cool but it’s way to much complication for 400bhp
I thought he was gonna say it produces like a 1,500 herspers
But 400? For that size i think u can get a v6/or v8 with same size and same or more herspers
@@goliathmb18 displacement, this does make a better sound and is more fuel efficient
@@sneaky_krait7271
I didn't know about the engine, just saw two v10s stuck together, thought it was gonna have more power, i didnt watch the previous episode tho
40 mpg is very optimistic! A 2 liter 4cyl. Has a hard time achieving that. Nevermind all the extra friction from a V10.
Too many cylinders-too much internal friction-A balance needs to be sought between individual cylinder size and number of cylinders in order to maximise power output.
and everything is going electric anyway
@ around 400bhp, I would have thought it was obvious they are not after maximum power output. It's a functional gimmick some rich guy would use to show off to his other rich friends "I bet you don't have a twin v10 powered supercar in your fleet"...
I thought the HP numbers were really low for 20 cylinders.
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Nothing says you can’t hook an electric motor up to a manual transmission. The only reason would be for fun, you wouldn’t need the clutch or even trans but it would be an experience to drive.
@@aaronburratwood.6957 400-440hp would be decent enough power for a naturally aspirated 4 litre. Wouldn't want to pay for cost of repairs though.
I need more renders of that supercar. No, scratch that, I need that supercar. My goodness that is just gorgeous.
Really cool stuff, does seem like a bunch of blokes living in the middle of know where that have never yet seen what direction modern transport is or has gone lol by the time they master all this to perfection everyone will be driving hydrogen cars lol 🤘🤘🤘
Oil scavaging will be interesting. Many stage dry sump pump would needed to keep all the oil being taken from where it is
Silly really, only 400hp out of a massive lump like that , whats the point?.
Why not just run an LS, it’ll make more power and weigh less
Efficiency and high revving and an amazing sound.
400hp out of a V10 don't seem like much but then think of it's context... sure you could make a dinky 1.8l do 400hp but how many times will you be rebuilding it? BMW V10 is only like 300-400hp yet they are quite reliable (unless you are an unlucky second hand owner of an abused one)
@@d4rkhound388 The V10 is 500hp but yes reliable if the owner warms it up properly.
An x20 engine. It's crazy and awesome. But I can't help but think that a crate ls would be a much cheaper, less complicated, and much more reliable way of getting 400hp NA.
Next video : two xc20.
= V40 or XC40 engine
Hey, I wanted an X-24 with four turbos and four superchargers. That motorcycle in the background at 1:08 is amazing. Let's put the engine into its big brother.
All this for just 400hp? hmmm
It's not always about the power
Did you not listen to the bit where they were talking about twin turbos and superchargers I'm guessing not.
Lol, and if what engine made 200 and so?
This company can support all their research/business efforts by selling 1200cc v6 engines to car enthusiasts who will gladly give them product feedback and help with the testing and development win win to me
Not an electric motor in sight.....YES !
I have heard of W designs like in Bugatti and VW engines, but never an X design! The best part is that the CEO actually claimed that the VR-10 alone is predicted to make 40MPG, so I'm expecting the X-20 to make around 20 to 30MPG with boost, and a killer soundtrack to go along with it!
Can't a Subaru boxer out out 300 on 4 cylinders? 400 on a 20 cylinder NA engine is not something to brag about, that's an ungodly amount of friction loss I bet.
Lol again
A monumental amount of time and energy to create an oversized engine with an unknown number of degrading issues. 400hp is being achieved by Suzuki Hyabusa drag bikes
with a fair amount of reliability. This thing is huge for the displacement and horsepower, I would classify it as a boat anchor.
A v20 engine
X uses to Vs
Like the W16 which is 2 Vs😉
Man this episode reminded me of how Dodge is no longer among the last V10 hold outs. RIP Viper
400bhp from a 4l x20 engine... That power output sounds extremely '70s fuel crisis American. Little efficiency. But innovative still.
400 hp from a 4L naturally aspirated engine isn't that little, Porsches do 500 hp with the same displacement and a lot more technology
Getting a specific output of 100hp/L while naturally aspirated is far from terrible actually... Those '70s American engines you mention wouldn't even get half that.
100bhp per litre is nothing like the 70s fuel crisis engines. Those engines were hardly pushing 50bhp per litre. Not many naturally aspirated production engines even surpass the 100bhp per litre mark, so don't throw unfair statements like that about. This engines power output is actually quite an achievement especially considering their limited business and economic parameters.
But it would run smooth as butter and sound like a boys choir.. And to be honest, 400hp in a light(ish) sportscar is enough to have all the fun in the world.
@@threesixty4486 no way a car that mounts this huge engine would be light
I really want one of their V6's! 40 mpg is astonishing.
*their
a shed full of broken dreams and wasted money
Apple started in a shed.
So you'll never know
how?? They are a small company and sell enough to get by ... and R&D projects should be applauded. Lessons learnt there help future projects.
After x20, and after v12... they could go crazy going with x24... or combine a pair of vr6 to make a very unique and potent w12
Why is this comment section so toxic? lol
Where
Blown diffuser would work hella sweet with those exhaust