RE: 4.2 V8 for Modena?
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Isn't it a bit more than that? I thought, but not totally sure, that current/planned Ferrari incarnations of the V8 feature flat plane cranks while the Maserati 4200 engine doesn't (I think)?
That would make them quite different engines really even if they have some shared development/parts, and explain the engines being quite different in sound/character - high revving power beasts in the Ferraris vs torque monsters in the Maser?
That would make them quite different engines really even if they have some shared development/parts, and explain the engines being quite different in sound/character - high revving power beasts in the Ferraris vs torque monsters in the Maser?
dinkel said:
Mmmh, the Maserati engine is not the aggresive popping Rari v8 . . . Can't they just bigger bore the 360? It's OK as long as it sounds meaty . . .
as chris says the Maserati 4200 engine is a development of the Ferrari 360 engine - bored out, not with the ferrari crank and tuned for torque rather than revs / bhp.
The new 420 Moderna will effectively be using a bored out 360 engine then as you suggest and will assumedly use the flat plane crank for the ferrari 8 pot character (and sound!). So, not to be worried then.
420 sounds like a facelift really though, so I wonder what they have in store for the 420 replacement and when it'll be due...
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