Moto guzzi v84/4/2024 ![]() Ferrari, for example, has been building some of the greatest V8s to ever burn fuel for generations now, and they’ve all been relatively small, techy motors with high rev limits and specific power outputs-even these, however, seem massive and slow-witted when compared to my all-time favorite V8, the Moto Guzzi GP bike of the mid-1950s, an epic mix of the two seemingly wildly disparate design characteristics.įollowing on the heels of fellow Italian Plinio Galbusera, who built a prototype two stroke V8 as early as 1938, Guzzi engineers set about building a new four-stroker of identical 500 cc displacement-an infinitely more difficult proposition given the advanced spec chosen for competiveness in high-level racing. On the surface, while these two things may not seem to be all that compatible (with V8s stereotypically being large, lazy things with equally large and lazy build tolerances and have the kind of motor whose displacement is measured in cubic inches or liters and not cubic centimeters), this clearly isn’t always the case. I hold both V8s and complex engineering in miniature in pretty high regards. ![]()
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