When we think about “oddball” engine layouts the inliners don’t typically enter the conversation. The W-style engines, the large displacement, small cylinder count V engines, and others are typically the leaders in those chats. But there’s one oddball inliner layout that is a head scratcher to come degree. The inline five. This design is not new and while it’s not that common, it has been mass produced in cars and trucks by GM, Volvo, and others. This video centers around the largest five cylinder engines in the history of the design and while it ends with engines large enough to have commas in the torque figure and catwalks for mechanics, it starts far smaller than that.
We dig this guy’s videos. He seems to have a lot of research baked into them and ultimately we always learn something about engines that we never knew existed, the technology of making them run, and the evolution of how human beings have made the horsepower needed to advance the civilization.
Enjoy this look at the largest inline five engines ever designed and built.
There is a 3 cylinder( I know it’s not a 5) hit and miss. Up the mountain a bit from Jerome Az. It runs last time I have seen it. Has a 13,000-pound flywheel. Makes 250 Hp. And most likely a million Lbs, of torque. Very impressive piece of machinery. And even more impressive that they brought it up on that mountain