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V8 engine
Piston engine with eight cylinders in V-configuration / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"V8" and "Small block" redirect here. For other uses, see V8 (disambiguation) and Small block (disambiguation).
A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder piston engine in which two banks of four cylinders share a common crankshaft and are arranged in a V configuration.[1]
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