Tractor & Construction Plant Wiki
Register
Advertisement

The V3 engine is a V engine with three cylinders. A V engine with the usual two banks, one bank contains two cylinders, the other only one. A rare configuration, it has only been used for two-stroke racing motorcycles.

The first example was by DKW in the 1960s.

Honda later revived the layout:

  • Honda NS500 Grand Prix racing motorcycle of the early 1980s
  • Honda MVX250F
  • Honda NS400R

A related layout was the W-3 or 'fan' engine, although this placed all three cylinders in the same plane, but none of them in the same bank. This was used for the 1905-1915 four-stroke Anzani engine, which was used in motorcycle and aircraft applications.

See also[]

References / sources[]

Links[]

Smallwikipedialogo This page uses some content from Wikipedia. The original article was at V3 engine. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Tractor & Construction Plant Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons by Attribution License and/or GNU Free Documentation License. Please check page history for when the original article was copied to Wikia


Advertisement