<VV> VV Boxer definitions

[Tony]

At 0940 03/07/2004 -0600, Robert Wilkinson wrote:
>>John Miller wrote:
>
>>The real boxer has one crank pin per piston while in the V-at-180?ne two 
>>pistons
>>share the same crank pin.
>
>I believe that the Corvair is not considered a boxer because opposing 
>pistons do not "box," but reciprocate.  More like the Mohammed Ali style, 
>perhaps, but not a true boxer, in which the center of mass of each opposing 
>piston pair doesn't move.  Thus the requirement of a separate crank throw 
>for each piston in a real boxer.
>


Uh...  the Vair engine *is* a true boxer because it does indeed have 6
individual opposed rod journals and the piston pairs do indeed move in
opposite directions.   



tony..