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Boxers are a subset of flat engines. Not all flat engines are boxers. Boxers have piston pairs in opposite banks come to top dead centre at the same time. A famous (bordering infamous) exception is Ferrari's "boxer" 12, which doesn't actually have a boxer crank, rather a standard V12 crank. So it isn't a boxer at all.

Yes I am aware@@identiticrisis, however, the boxer came before the flat-v, the flat v was an afterthought. In America, they-re called 180 degree V engines. And the most common ones are boxer engines, sooo, yea.

@@boywhohasl1vedhascometodie469 sooo, per your first comment, a flat engine is called a boxer in "America". Your second comment states that the flat V was an afterthought (since you claim the boxer came first) and they're usually called 180 V engines (in "America"). But the most common flat v engine is a boxer. Seems needlessly complicated and contradictory. Engines with banks disposed at 180 degrees have always been called flat, across the globe, regardless of crank configuration. Yes, many if not most of them are boxers, and have often been called as such. Some flat engines which were not boxers have also been called boxers (Ferrari), which has led to many embarrassed would-be Ferrari cognoscenti. I suspect, due to the way it is deployed and defended, that embarrasment is the real origin of the 180 V nonsense term, _actually_

@@identiticrisis yes, because legit every single engine that is a flat engine that’s sold in America is a Boxer engine, or if we’re getting overtly pedantic, the Conta engine. The thing that’s different about that is that each piston has its own crankpin, and operate out of sync with one another, which cancels majority of vibrations. With the 180 Flat V on the other engine, such as some Ferrari engines, they implement two pistons to each crankpin, which is exactly what a V8 engine does. The caveat is that it only cancels out vibrations if you have more pistons (that’s why we don’t see a Flat V4 or 6, since the vibrations would be terrible side to side, and for the Flat V6, it would have mildly curved vibrations compared to the Flat V4). Which is why they’re only implemented in 8 cylinders or above, since you have an equal force traveling the same direction, meanwhile with the Flat V4, you have uneven forced both traveling at different directions. And in closing, you can argue that the Flat V term is obsolete, however, with how pedantic engines can be, the term needs to exist.

@@boywhohasl1vedhascometodie469 A flat 8 would also be imbalanced if it used a normal flatplane or crossplane crank. The boxer obviously is not, because the pistons are perfectly in phase, but move in opposite directions. In any flat engine there should not be any vertical component to the imbalance, unless it's caused by crank counterweights, because the pistons never move vertically. So a flat 6 would rock around a vertical axis, but not vertically. Flat V is an oxymoron and has no real place in actual engine pedantry. There are V engines that don't adhere to the common crankpin rule but definitely aren't boxers either. Ford V4s or any 60 degree V6 for example. If a flat engine is not a boxer, it is best to describe the crankshaft properly, as is the case for every other category of engine configuration. Historically there have been many examples of flat engines, so it's not enough to only consider what is currently on sale in "America" in the automotive sector. A flat 10 using a normal 5 cylinder crank would be superior to a boxer 10 by most measures, incendentally.

The Titanic's engines were technically I4s, but steam powered

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@@Chillin4030 no this person puts banana on pizza, pinapple is fine when paired with ham. this person is just a cock womble