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Hewitt mounted two banks of cylinders at an angle atop a single crankcase and the V-8 was born.
The Hewitt was a good car, but it was so expensive that only a few were produced. It was cheaper to build in-line engines with four or six cylinders in a single row.
Yet the horsepower race had just begun. In 1914 Cadillac successfully marketed a car with a V-8 engine. The following year three other manufacturers offered eight-cylinder engines and Packard introduced its 12-cylinder “Twin Six.”
Adding cylinders was not the only way to get more power from an engine, however. Higher compression and shorter piston strokes increased the revolutions and the power—and the stress on long crankshafts.
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High-speed engines doomed the “straight eights.” By 1916 there were 18 automobile companies building cars with - V*8 engines, 1 whose .shorter crankshafts vibrated less.
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