# V18 engine? (Car question) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 26, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v18-engine-car-question/197813 "2003-08-26T19:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![paranormal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3be4f8/32.png) [@paranormal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paranormal)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v18-engine-car-question/197813/21 "2003-08-27T19:13:55Z")
but it’s probably impossible for the NEXT VIPER to have a V18, right? Thx for the input, BTW ---
**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v18-engine-car-question/197813/22 "2003-08-27T22:05:58Z")
here Doc Nickel my brotha ! [http://www.vw.com/engine/index.htm?car=passat](http://www.vw.com/engine/index.htm?car=passat) this is a flash demo from VW website that shows exactly what a W engine is. a W engine uses FOUR banks of cylinders. but i guess perhaps when an engine has 3 banks of cyldiners like that 18 cylinder bugatti, they decided to call it a W as well. ---
**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v18-engine-car-question/197813/23 "2003-08-27T22:19:09Z")
i dont know what you’r referring to as the “NEXT” viper. the current viper just was introduced recently, as a 2003 model. i dont think there is any “next” viper yet. [http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupe/112\_0103viper/](http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupe/112_0103viper/) but here is a quote from motortrend : “Dodge believes Viper isn’t Viper without its signature motor.” meaning a V-10. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v18-engine-car-question/197813/24 "2003-08-27T23:32:26Z")
Dodge doesn’t have any experience building 18 cylinder (or 14 or 16, for that matter) engines, and they have no W- formation development program I know of, so unless they’re buying the Viper engine from someone else, no, it won’t be a V-18. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v18-engine-car-question/197813/25 "2003-08-28T00:40:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pmh \* > \*\*[This](http://www.cscsc.org/2002/24-May-2002PowerTour/SpeedWayMotorsMuseumV16Chevy.jpg) one? > > Sorry couldn’t resist. It’s in the museum across the street. \*\* Where do they get a 16 point distributor? ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v18-engine-car-question/197813/26 "2003-08-28T01:19:02Z")
Wasn’t one of the first 1920’s style Death Ray machines powered by a V-18 engine? ---
**Author:** ![pmh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@pmh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmh)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v18-engine-car-question/197813/27 "2003-08-28T06:04:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enola Straight \* > \*\*Where do they get a 16 point distributor? \*\* It appears to be a custom made head pressed onto a stock body. No clue about the cap, but it would be trivial to make one given the work already invested. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doc Nickel \* > **I wonder why nobody’s put it in a street rod? I’d kill to see that badboy with eight Weber DCOEs in a stretched-nose steel-body '32 repro.** Sacrilege!! A Deuce needs a flathead! Hmm, now the same trick with a pair of Lincoln V12s and you might be on to something.😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v18-engine-car-question/197813.md?page=1)