There is a story I wrote in regards to the Ducati Panigale V4 for Playboy that still lives on Ducati’s own site. And, actually, I nonetheless cannot consider it was printed. Even for Playboy, it was unhinged. Enjoyable as hell to write down, enjoyable as hell to do, however completely and completely unhinged. I like to recommend you not learn it on a piece machine.
However the essence of the article was one born by the very bike itself, and most significantly, one born because of that freakin’ banger of an engine: the V4.
It’s, hand on coronary heart, one of the vital particular engines ever to be devised. It growls upon startup, and goes full-on feral yowl as you climb via its rev vary. It is an engine that makes you spontaneously succumb to tourettes, your mouth and thoughts unable to supply something however expletives and kinky issues that may discover you in HR’s workplace sooner than the Panigale’s 0-60 race.
Even serious about it now, I shiver from the sound that motor makes because it screams towards the heavens of its limits. But, the engineering of the V4 is oh-so-much extra than simply the way it sounds. No, Ducati put its complete ass into the creation of the V4, as defined by Engineering Defined’s Jason Fenske.
For individuals who have not placed on Engineering Defined earlier than and zoned out on the engineering nerdery that Fenske’s so good at, you are in for a deal with. The person, delusion, and legend—and I am talking about Fenske’s whiteboards, not Jason himself—is a kind of science and engineering educators who simply know easy methods to break down complicated ideas and concepts into easy-to-understand English for mere mortals that simply wish to blip the throttle and pull a wheelie, i.e., a neanderthal like myself.
The video’s conceit is how Ducati, together with the opposite sportbike producers, have by some means eclipsed the horsepower wars of the trendy supercar and hypercars, and finished so by extracting insane energy figures out of engines the dimensions of a liter of pop. Certainly, the principle level of comparability Fenske makes use of is Honda’s legendary F20C engine out of the S2000, however he exhibits that Ducati is getting double the horsepower out of half the displacement.
He then compares the Ducati V4 to Gordon Murray and Cosworth’s proprietarly insane 4.0-liter V12 in the T.50, and exhibits that, just like the S2000 motor, the V4 continues to be making almost 100 horsepower extra per liter than even the very best naturally aspirated supercar motor on the planet. Woof. And whereas the T.50 does have slightly extra torque per liter, that is extra to do with the Ducati’s larger redline. Yeah, it’s going to scream excess of the race-bred Cosworth engine.
Once more, the V4 is a masterpiece of engineering, and the entire 13-minute video is value your time, as Fenske breaks down the V4’s design much better than even I can. I imply, I am only a man with a throttle tattoo on my hand. He has an engineering diploma. So sit again, seize some espresso, and watch Fenske nerd out.
I am going to simply be right here daydreaming in regards to the V4 once more.
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