What happens when you take two V10 engines, gear them together and slap a Lamborghini gearbox on the other side? Well, you end up with an X20 engine, like this one built by the guys at Villiers for a Connaught supercar!
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Can get a 4 liter to turbocharger to put in my 280z? Shoot me a price.
ITS A MANUAL YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Interesting in that it is the first X20. But no mention of the Rolls-Royce Vulture X24 that first ran in 1937.
Why not mount another v10 on top while you're at it
I’d love to hear this thing start up
f**k electric cars ! Give me one of these !!! Carry on guys !
Have they considered a piston valve engine my farther designed one the drawings still exists ?
Villiers? As in the guys who built lawnmower engines that we used for mini bikes in the 70’s? Amazing!
m.p.g. ? that's metres per gallon ....
Koenigsegg 3 cylinder, 2 litre . . 600hp!
Need to talk to the tractor-pull guys about putting engines together. This is just two engines, not one. Doesn't hold up to a VR6, W12, or W16.
The horsepower prediction is trash 400 hp? Really why so little? Not worth the time and energy
I thought the department of transport doesn't allow 2 crankshafts in a car, has that been changed?
Wow! That could be the dumbest engine ever.... Until the X30?
Look like the bfg from doom
Open deck forced induction? No thanks.
Right! So you're welcome to my video blog about cars.
Make them ..come here in south africa and show them the x20 We will love it And I hope its cheap
Why does it make only 400hp? The entire point of small capacity cylinders is to have lighter pistons and lower piston speeds so you can rev higher, it should easily rev over 10.000 and there is no excuse for this thing to make less than 800hp.
I want to see the crankshaft/rods on this thing, fitting 20 rods on to a crankshaft without master/slaverods or something similar must mean very narrow bearings
Modern engineers are grown children
I was confused at first lol, I was like V10? you mean someone strapped two missiles together? Oh, you mean valves.
Wait so an X 20 with ONLY 400 bhp?! Doesn't make sense
It would make for a great inboard marine engine
I thought they were going to say it was like 1800 hp
For sure still stuck with one question, WHY? There is no logical reason to spend that much time and money on the output levels vs economy.
400hp from that boat anchor is not near enough to make it viable .
Forget a bike or three wheeler, I'd take that triple on my snowmobile
This makes the W18 engine look like nothing!
Impressive Most important Can it fit my Honda?
lol and weld turbos to it, like 4 turbines. i do not volenteeer to do the welding job :)
you can get any american V8, and make over 400 HP and probably save on gas aswell.
Looks like it's all aluminum. Curious what the engine weight alone is. With it being opposed my brain went to putting it in my airplane. LOL But for that size and weight it would definitely have to have large boost or too nice superchargers! Perhaps a boat?
Now I'm waiting for double stack boxer engines
This makes me remember of the guy who is designing a k24 v8
400-450... Thats it?
It's in tiny sheds like this that world renowned engineering comes from.. Anyone remember COSWORTH??!!!
So a single v8 from koeningsegg makes around 1,400bhp. 2 v10s can make 40 Err
... That could fit in a Subaru...
So underwhelming. I though it was gonna make at least 1200hp
40mpg from a 2-litre V10? Yeah right - a miracle of internal friction reduction - but these engines are a triumph of fun over function and I'm sure they have fun building them.
How many of you are comparing an experimental engine, from an engineering company that very few people have ever heard of, to well known car manufacturers that have been producing cars for decades and spend millions in r&d on one single engine. 🤦♂️
I need a supercharged version right now..
Well this is new to me. And as a guy with a VRT fetish. This is awesome!
Funny thing you mentioned that they could put that 6 cyl in a motorcycle... What about that motorycle on background? they already have one in a bike... :D
An X20 with 400hp? Ok, what am I missing? A mildly worked k20 surpasses this easily. I get that they do it because they can etc etc.
True it can... but the fact the parts are smaller and theres more of them means the "Load" is spread out more so not only will the car be smoother, it will also be potentially more reliable however it comes with a tradeoff that if something goes wrong it's going to be much more severe... 100hp in each cylinder will have alot more "Stress" in a 400hp 4 cyl motor than 20hp per cylinder in a 20 cylinder motor.
I guess I will design the VW30
Whaaat
I want these guys to make a 24 cylinder engine and mate it to a 7 speed transmission just so they can call it the '24/7'
Fantastic!
I just wish they would stop calling the VR10 "V10"
Overengineering the combustion engine really... Thankfully we can move forward with electric vehicles, since batteries are just starting to catch up since the Porsche P1 in 1898 (I am exaggerating a bit but it captures how slow batteries are progressing)
There are no v10 engines but vr10 engines. The VR form was developed and used by Volkswagen several years ago.
All those cylinders for Mustang-level horsepower
It's great but I'm willing to bet they will never put this in a vehicle.
This is absolutely in every way my dream job.
Are you sure it is not 80 valves?
Can we talk about that v6 cafe bike in the background..?
When you start getting to this size of cylinders the mass outweighs the bhp gain. They figured this out in the 1930s. It's better using turbos like v8 twin-turbo or v10 twin etc. Unless you're just after torque, which is useless above 1000 pounds-feet in a conventional 2 wheel drive sports car.
Still won top the gen 2 hemi. Still the king
I mean it is super innovative but 400hp out of 20 cylinders? You dont need a transmission out of a Lamborghini to handle that.
I want to buy one engine
wowowow. the best sort of minds at work. what a pleasure to see!
So... what does a V10 and the appropriate transmission cost?
I wanna hear the sound so bad 😔
So it's basically a... X20 boxer motor. Awesome.
For V20 it really should make more power NA
such a shame these guys are so late in the game when its basically over
Why did I miss seeing this... Oh yeah... the riots happened :p :(
New decade new LUT? Loglaw is so 2017.
cool, but not worth the $, a Suzuki Hayabusa is a 1.3L 4 cyl with 197 HP, take 2 of them V8 2.6L 384 HP NA. it's there $ but how do you fix this engine in 10 years from now?
pretty dumb
I canNOT wait to hear what that x20 sounds like. Really looking forward to the first start
So its just adding excessive complications, size, and costs to get what a small V8 already does in many production cars?
*JEEZUS* just SHUDDUP & take my MONEY
Only 400 HP, from 20 cylinders? What a joke.
An engine that big only 2 litres? That's gonna be thirsty.
Normal small block 350 with 700hp hold my beer
Oil scavaging will be interesting. Many stage dry sump pump would needed to keep all the oil being taken from where it is
Looks like a great engine for aircraft
I love this engine but only 440 break hp. Not much considering this is two v10s mated together.
Allen Millyard could putr two of these together with his eyes shut, just give the man a hack saw and a week
I was literally thinking "How would it be to put two of these V10s together?" recently! Glad to see someone there had the same idea
Cough Cough "Quad Turbo" Cough Cough
Waiting for v10 mx-5/miata ;D
As a R32 owner, the fact there's other Vr engines on the way makes me very happy. The exhaust note makes us R(v6 R owners not the 4 bangers) owners hard as morning. Hopefully we can buy these globally. Keep grinding guys love the ambition, make a go fund me!
Is today the 1st of April already???...
Stock ls 5.3 makes 350
I have never been so excited about a car company than I have with Connaught. I though all was lost after the long search for the Type D, but here we are now!
British engineering,make engines and never mind about the leaks in the roof
I feel like... I don’t know maybe just have literally any V10 instead since they all make over 400hp🤣
I honestly wouldn't mind getting one of them two strokes tbh
120 out of a v6? Try again
Why not a x 24 and take advantage of 6 cylinder primary balance. Also, two cranks is just a terrible compromise but I guess there's not enough length on a single crank for 20 con rods.
Ah yes, the floors is many floor that stick together
So 400hp from 20 cylinders.... mercedes a45 engine makes 435 from 4 cylinders
Um my zx-14 makes 200 hp with 600 less cc's and 6 less cylinders. So what's the point of making more complicated engines make less hp?
Tonight, we put two v10s together and put it on a (insert something that is too small for this engine here)
X20 engine: 2 V10 engines, smashed together, complicated gearing system, manual transmission; 400bhp. Ford "Eco-Boost": 1 V6, DCT, 610(b?)hp. But, the X20 is waaaaaay cooler.
its a joke.
From 0 to broken driveshafts in nothing flat.