You know about in line and V engines you may be even heard of a BR engine layout and all sorts of wild engine configurations in them and today, we are going to go through every single one.

 Okay, now that we've established that we're going to go through every engine configuration that I could find that then put in a car now if I happen to miss any by the end of this video, just go ahead and write them down, you can mail them to me we have a p o box, I'm going to take all of them and then I'm going to put them in the trash. Okay, so let's start off with inline engines. All the cylinders are in a straight line, hence their name. And the straight cylinder design seems pretty intuitive if you were to start from scratch and building your own engine, but it's also a very mechanically smart design. With only one cylinder head there are fewer moving parts than engines with multiple cylinder heads. So you have less stuff means less chance for other stuff failing. This allows for a less mechanically complex layout. There's simple engine, and because they are simple, they're cheaper and for the most part, they're easier to maintain. So let's start off with the least number of cylinders in this inline configuration. And in all honesty, I was going to start with in line two, but there are some cars out there with single cylinder inline engines. One cylinder one piston, one connecting rod one crank one balancer, two valves, the 1903 Oldsmobile curved dash which is documented actually as being the first mass produced car. well known fact from there, we can go to our inline two or straight twin. The fee of 500 supported this two cylinder setup. Of course of all the inline engines. The coolest is the Koenigsegg twin turbo inline three inline force we have every engine and the majority of cars on the road. My first car 1990 Toyota pickup had a 22 Rv you guys know the story, my sister freakin stole it from me and then sold it so if you have it, I want it back. There's the Mitsubishi 4g 63 T, the s 14 v 25, and BMW E 30. And three Honda they got the f 20 c, s 2000. Now they're small, so you can put them anywhere in the front engine mid engine rear engine, before Bangor is a worldwide staple. The only downside to an inline four is that it needs a counterbalance the secondary forces aren't balanced, which ultimately limits the size of the engine. And because of that, they often need balancing shafts to cancel out those vibrations. That's in line four. So now let's get to in line five. But why would you want that? Well, they're smoother than in in line four and smaller than in line six. Told me explain why the five cylinders smoother, we need to look at the timing of the power strokes. A four stroke engines operate in four cycles suck squeeze bang blow. Every cylinder fires once every 720 degrees to rotations of the crank. If we divide 720 degrees by the number of cylinders, we get how often a power stroke occurs, your power stroke can't last longer than 180 degrees of crankshaft rotation. So a three cylinder engine there's a gap in the power delivery. So if you take 740 degrees divided by three minus 180 is 60 degrees of silence we know power strokes take place. So for a four cylinder take 720 divided by four That's one ad, you subtract one ad you get zero. So I think end of one cylinders power stroke, another cylinder fires. Now with a five cylinder there's a 36 degree overlap meaning another power stroke has occurred before the crankshaft rotates to the 180 degree mark. This result in a very smooth power delivery, instead of this kind of relatively jolting action of an inline form. And you can use this equation for any type of cylinder configuration to see when they're firing. So who uses inline fires? Well, my favorite is a Swedish American built 2.5 liter in the Focus RS 500. Also GM, they have a 3.7 liter in the Hummer h3, and the RS two ibanc got one but we never got in the US. So whatever. Next we have the sexy six is the perfectly balanced, sexy sixer. There's so many great examples of this engine. Our favorites are the Rb 26 and the today's z Of course, but they're like I said, there's a ton of them out there. They're long and strong and the smoothest engine out there. They're just a better in line for from there. We go into inline eights, the hungry eights, the straight eights, and they were the performance engine of choice in the late 20s. Who got he Duesenberg Alfa Romeo Mercedes Benz they all had a version of the straight eight. Alfa Romeo 159 Alpharetta. It 147 54 Grand Prix is in f1 between 1938 and 1951. That little one and a half liter supercharged in line eight can get all the way up to 10,500 RPM at screaming skip over the enlightens because there are nine go straight to in line 12 there's a few that are ever built in the early 20s. And with good reason. When you have a frickin crankshaft that's super long. You have all the pistons kind of rocking, it creates this jump rope effects you got to have a crank that is super, super stiff really, really strong. That being said there were some made so they're on the list there not a lot of them out there.