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Originally Posted by ajnorris
No offense taken, but I don't think anyone has seriously thought through my explanation. oh well. I give up, not that I'm convinced that I'm wrong yet though  .
This is because in a 4 main bearing set up you have more cross sectional area away from the rotating axis making the design inherently more torsionally rigid. It's like how a hollow rod with the same cross sectional area is more torsionally rigid than a solid one. Basically the lever rule. I agree it seems sort of counterintuitive. |
LOL, it seems counterintuitive because you have it backwards.
You are just making stuff up... no offense... it just does not follow the physics of the situation... Having 7 main bearings in an inline 6 is the best of all possible worlds... the most support you can give the crank ..... which is always good...