GoKawiil9000 RPM. That’s how fast a modern sports car engine can rev.
I know that number, but I can’t quite visualize it. The math is simple: 9000 revolutions per minute is 150 per second.
The screen on my laptop doesn’t even refresh that often. 🤯
That crankshaft is spinning faster than the display you’re reading this on can draw a frame.
To help picture this, I built an animation: random.ma.ttias.be/boxermotor .
Watch the video The boxer-6 from the Porsche 911 GT3, running at 1/50th speed
Turn the ignition , hold the gas pedal or the spacebar, and it revs up to the redline.
There are 4 engine layouts in there: an inline-4, a 60-degree V6, a boxer-6 and a flat-plane V8. Each one gets its own crankshaft geometry and firing order. The pistons should move the way that engine moves under the hood.
Watch the video The flat-plane V8 rotating past head-on: two banks of four, one crankshaft down in the vee.
At full throttle the whole thing turns into a blur.
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