Ferrari and Porsche V8.

[History]

Now it's gets complicated and along comes a curved ball.

Both Ferrari and Porsche has used V8s that instead of being 90 degrees are actually 180 deg and the engine is flat.
These are not boxer engines.
A boxer engine has pistons opposite banks both at TDC.
This means a boxer 8 cylinder has 8 crankpins.

Ferrari and Porsche instead used 4 crankpins with two conrods per crankpin. One bank on TDC and the other at BDC. ( bottom dead centre).

Also sometimes both boxer and flat Vs are called horizontally opposed.

I as an engineer really get into stuff like this.

Food for thought

Regards
Bob Reddington.

[Flatlander]

Dont know what you are smoking, but can I have some?

[History]

I am disabled and take morphine for pains. One gets weird dreams on morphine. However flat Vs do exsist.

Which is why I call myself History, I can't fix cars anymore.

Bob