Due to inertia of the piston and minor velocity difference of moving up vs down in a cranking geometry, an ICE will be unbalanced and generate vibrations. Called primary and secondary balance.
This has nothing to do with tolerance, but yeah I’m not talking about rattling either, just vibrations.
Unless you have a V8, where all this unbalance is cancelled out by opposing movement on the other side of the engine.
It’s more to do with crankshaft design than piston count. Either way, engines have had dampeners / balancers on them since before either of us were born. So again, the sound is coming from the explosions, not the vibrations.
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The sound from an engine doesn’t come from it rattling, tolerances in modern engines are very tight. Sound comes from the explosions.
Due to inertia of the piston and minor velocity difference of moving up vs down in a cranking geometry, an ICE will be unbalanced and generate vibrations. Called primary and secondary balance.
This has nothing to do with tolerance, but yeah I’m not talking about rattling either, just vibrations.
Unless you have a V8, where all this unbalance is cancelled out by opposing movement on the other side of the engine.
It’s more to do with crankshaft design than piston count. Either way, engines have had dampeners / balancers on them since before either of us were born. So again, the sound is coming from the explosions, not the vibrations.
I'm sure people are interested in simulating more than modern engines with this.
What about valve clatter? I’m positive you can hear that.