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JW wrote:
Rusty, I wish we could all be as knowledgeable and experienced as you are. Here is another side light on engine design. It seems Enzo Ferrari was so impressed with the Packard Twin Six that he chose the V-12 design for his engines when he started his own automobile company many years later. The rest, as they say, is history.
This discussion is very impressive indeed. Here's just another V-12 tidbit:
The story as I read it of Enzo Ferrari's fascination with the Packard Twin Six stated that it was not the looks or even the configuration that made him strive to create a 12 of his own, it was the sound! He inquired about the sound before he knew what it was. (It was, as I recall, a racing Packard V-12.)
This account seems to be borne out in Ferrari's subsequent configurations of the 12, such as the flat opposed "boxer." It appears that the main requirement for Enzo was that it had 12 cylinders, no matter how they were arranged. 12 sounded the meanest to his ears, and unlike Packard's quest for silence, Ferraris were meant to be heard and, briefly, seen.
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