I have had the privilege of being given a private tour of this factory in Crewe, and let me tell you it was fantastic. These are some of the finest craftsmen and women in the world. Their expertise is second to none. I'm not just talking about the engine though, the whole car is a work of art from beginning to end. Watching someone hand build an engine, or hand polish wood, or even put the final stitches into the leather on the steering wheel by hand "which can sometimes take 50 hours to make!) was just amazing to see. Only once you see it all in action will you fully appreciate what an amazing car a Bentley is. Also some of these people have worked in the factory for 30 years or more, so they understand the tradition that is upheld, making a Bentley totally Unique to any other car. I have to say that through personal experience, even a Rolls Royce doesn't quite stack up to a Bentley Mulsanne for example which is 100% hand built at Crewe (which is why they cost £250k), whilst the Continental ranges bodies are made in Germany before being shipped to the UK for the car to be finished at the factory using both handcrafting and machine processing. Overall though it is a great marque who make superb automobiles :)
So nice to find a video where they are not changing camera shots every 2 seconds and yelling at you about why this or that is the best. Thumbs up from a dude in oregon.
Cool Video. I really like the fact that the original sounds and noises of the factory at work were left in and not some cheesy music dubbed over it. It gives me a better appreciation of the work they do. Which, to me, wouldn't be "work". I think it would be awesome to have a job building one of the finest cars on the planet. Even if my salary didn't allow me to actually own one. But maybe a good used one. At least you know you'd save money on the maintenance of it, which I'm sure is quite expensive.
From somebody whom took R8 v10 engines a lot of times for just an oil leak or damaged chain I'll have to say that was really amazing to watch and the lil ideas that are used do open my mind to a lot thank you for posting that clip
painmagnet1 the disadvantage is cost sometimes but when a human is doing the job it checks the product he is assambling on defects etc etc. A robot is not that acurate on that. You can use vision systems but sometimes defects slip true it. But a robot does not have to go for lunch and toilet and coffee. Its a balance you have to find. Specialy your industry airplane parts. 10 km up in the sky there are no emergency lanes and parking spots.:-)
+J IJzer Wow. That is unbelievably insulting. Some of those workers mightn't know what it takes to design an engine, but I'll bet what they do have in spades is the ability to concentrate for long periods of time whilst paying attention to the smallest details.And I'm also sure that whilst it is an unusual configuration, the fact that it's a W12 is irrelevant - it will still function that same as any other IC engine, so I'm sure the assembly line worker know exactly how they work.
This engine broke 7 endurance records in 2002 and one of them was 24 hour endurance record. VW's Nardo W12 Coupe concept covered a distance of 7000+ km at an average speed of 300 km/h.
Any engine can run well and impress when new. The real test is how it stays together after 20 years and several hundred thousand kilometers. Most of these newer designs will suffer all kinds of problems even just out of warranty. And good luck trying to service them while they're installed in a car!
12:00 HOLY MOLY! Thats a massive engine assembly, last time I saw something that big it was having a semi-tractor being built around it. Fitting though, Ettore Bugatti famously called the Bentley of his era the worlds fastest lorry. ;-)
1:21 - I know lets make a car with two 6 cylinder engines strapped together! That engine block looks like it could do 0-60 right there on the machine! Beautiful :)
Wonderful video! Thanks for not adding any BGM and removing noice (Could've added the ENGINE running sound as all others say); it was lovely to watch it peacefully
Now I understand what the W configuration is. Love that ring compressor with the locating pins. Used to use fuel line hose for the lower conn. rod guides when installing pistons. Obviously a clearance engine the way he rotates those cams in place. Was the tester at the end of the engine build testing exhaust valve leakage? All hand built, beautiful and rare these days. That is one potent looking power plant. Very quiet, too ;-). Thx for the vid.
Yes, and that is why there are sections of dead air. That dead air is when an automated robotic arm reaches down and cattle prods the workers in the back of their necks for talking on the line.
Mike Collins Yeah Horsepower is supposed to be the work produced from a horse within a certain time period -- an hour I think. But think about it, a Clydesdale Horse can do a hell of lot more work than a Shetland Pony --- right?
+rbagel55 Sorry to be pedantic but horsepower would be the instantaneous power developed. Over a period of time it would be joules, or whatever the imperial version of that is.
+dopiaza2006 Well, if we're really into pedantry, 1HP = 746Watts. If you Google "Measurement of a horsepower", there's any amount of detail on how it was developed. Basically, a dray horse lifts a weight by pulling on a rope that runs over a pulley. The work done is (weight lifted) x (distance it was lifted), and power is (work done) / time taken. The horse can lift 1lb easily, but it can't lift it far in a given time because it can only run so fast. It can lift 300lb, but it can't lift it far because it's damned heavy, and it struggles. They messed around with the weight, taking measurements, till (Weight x distance / time) was at a maximum, and that was declared to be a developed horsepower.
The W12 engine of VW Group (and very specially, its twin turbo versions for Bentleys) is simply a stunning wonder of engineering. Congratulations to all the people involved in its creation (from the first to the last: R+D mechanical design engineers, workers building it at Bentley Factory... and so on...). Good job!!! Kind regards from Barcelona, Joan (John in Catalan).
All OHC engines have plastic timing chain guides. All the European, American, Japanese, all of them. That they don't use a more durable gear drive just drives home the idea that they really aren't concerned about long term durability.
This is more than an internal combustion motor;this is a work of art!
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The sad thing is, machines like Bentley are expensive for one reason and one reason only; human fallibility. You can send a human to work to do the same job for 40 years, and despite his/her vast experience, they will eventually, at some undetermined and unforeseeable point, come to work one day and just f*** up. If you want to build a sophisticated product that is "flawless" and operates "perfectly", you have to institute computer control systems to track EVERY SINGLE THING the humans do.....day after day, year in and year out...for that day when they come to work and f*** up. And THAT type of monitoring and oversight is EXPENSIVE. This is why manufacturing is excited about robotics... machines are already "baby sitting" the humans, so take the humans out of the equation and just let the machines build the thing EXACTLY as it is designed. This way, no one's motor fails because Joe was having relationship problems, or Becky has a drinking problem, or Jimmy's in love and can't focus at work. Humans are magnificent, yes... but they are not well suited machines for flawless, repetitive manufacturing. Humans shine on the creative side. Let's leave the mechanized work to robots who have no social life. ;-)
+Mike Bernard Maybe but Joe, Becky and Jimmy need their weekly wage. Plus, makes life more interesting if one makes a mistake, when you look back on it of course ha ha
It would be nice to have some commentary voice explaining what is happening. Because I sometimes lack the knowledge and I think I am not the only one (I hope).
Super insight into the amazing engineering process of building one of these. I still cant help thinking we have got to move away from building such massive, fuel hungry and expensive things for transporting a few people around if we are ever to save this planet?
I am still wondered by the fact that these engines are called "W Configuration". I see 2 banks of 6 cylinders in a "V" configuration requiring 2 cylinder heads. For it to be a "W" configuration it would be required to have 3 banks of 4 cylinders requiring 3 cylinder heads (2 at 90 degrees to each other and a third in between them) I' know that they are called W12's and me saying that it is wrong isn't going to make every manufacturer change their design but i still think it isn't a true "W" configuration.
You have a point. Filed under "there is nothing new under the sun", Allison (General Motors) made the v-1710 throughout WW2, powering the P-40, P-38, and P-39 fighters...... Later in the war, when a more powerful engine was needed for the new Boeing B-29 bombers, Allison submitted their entry-the V-3420....essentially 2 V-1710's laid out around a common crankshaft ala this VW-designed Bentley motor....The Germans did the same thing with the Diamler (Mercedes) DB600 series engines in an effort to also produce a more powerful bomber engine. Neither the Allison nor the Diamler was a particularly good engine, and both were laid to rest without all of the "bugs" worked out, in favor of simpler 14, 18, and 28 cylinder radial engines...... FYI
Nice to see automation/robots being used to assist humans and not replace them. Wonderful to watch a finely cast and machined piece of hardware, skillfully assembled by hand.
Do basically, it's a Volkswagen engine? You put two VR6 engine in a V6 configuration but still in the same block to make a W12? So it's basically a twin VR6 in a VR angle to add another VR6 engine? Is that it? Cause that's really what it seems like, and if I'm wrong I'm not being sarcastic or rude. I'm truly trying to understand. It's a double VR6 engine design?
It would be better if we didn't have retards bitching about free videos that are offered to them on the internet. Go bitch about something you actually paid for you useless tool.
I'd love to see the new V8s being made, with their cylinder shutdown system. It'd be interesting to see how it works, exactly, when being put together.
Interesting to see the W12 engine come together. I'm still partial to the V12 design, but I suppose the space savings can't be discounted. Interesting to see the front differential integrated with the transmission. I was surprised the half shafts aren't bigger to handle all the power. I'd still rather have an AMG.
4:05 The secondary timing chain tensioner is plastic? Jaguar made that mistake in the 1990's and learned from it. Why is Bentley Motorcars still applying the same concern?
+Apocalyps i noticed too. thats stupid. if its about economy on price or weight, Bentley is expensive toy and very heavy for sport car. they could use duralum
The Mercedes AMG plant makes these guys look like toddlers playing with legos. One guy in this video hit a cam lobe with a wrench, another fella torqued a bellhousing bolt fully while all the others were still loose. Even the machine that puts rtv on the block doesn't even go around the bolt holes completely. AMG also uses a single Master Mechanic to build a single engine from start to finish. There is really no comparison, except for Ferrari.
interesting, but... that's not a true w12 configuration; it's a modified v12... a true "w" configuration has 3 banks of 4 cylinders running off of a single crankshaft... the block has a distinct w shape... sorry, just saying...
+dave oh (dave oh13) and you are so right !!!!! I said the same thing at another video site, and by the nasty responses that came back, a person would have thought I had suggested peeing on the virgin Mary's grave. this is a compound V, NOT a W lay out. thank god there is at least one other person out there who understands / realizes that. VW should have their ass kicked for promoting this misunderstanding by incorrectly calling the compound V veyron engine a W.
+carkunkula That is where English language sucks sometime. In Latin and Gernman languages, W is spelled "double V" instead of "double U". VW choose the former pronunciation which means the company is still technically correct.
Totally freaks me out that a guy appears to use a domestic electric drill to torque up the big end bearings on the con rods, and not even a bit at a time, just zap one bolt, zap the other. Same thing with the cam covers just zap up one bolt at a time, no attempt to cross torque them! I just hope there is another torque process that follows!
It's made by Bosch, and they have a line of precision fastening torque tools for factory assembly. Makita, Metabo, and a number of others do as well. Would I trust the assembly of such an expensive engine to it? No way! I also hope there is another torque process!
very cool but here is one thing i dont understand. Ive seen alot of these engine build videos. Why dont the guys fitting the crank. connecting rods. pistons. cams and anything to do with the timing chain. have an oil or assembly lube bottle? surely a high end company like this doesent dry assemble engines and rotating parts. It must be off camera that im not seeing it.
yes it must be off camera. If you check the movie between 1:25 and 1:30 you can see oil in the cylinders and you don't saw nobody put it there. It must be the same for the other parts.
Every single nut, bolt, washer and most parts have an anti corrosive oil on them to prevent corrosion while waiting for assemble and it aids assemble too. Notice he did oil the cylinders. But the next time you fix your own car, oil every single screw you put it. They'll go in easier and they'll go in farther which means tight, like on a new car. Dry nuts and bolts are the norm in the backyard and in the typical "pro" shop. Not so on the assembly line.
Let's do some calculations. This video length is 15min, plus the transportation time between different platform, let's say the totally time is 30mins, because they also has V8, V10, it's much easier than a W12. The Bentley announced they sold 10,120cars in 2013. Let's say, a worker in Bentley only work 150 days per year, 8 hours per day.10120 is diveded by 150*8, equal to 8.4 engine per hours.From the video, one worker can produce 2*W12 engines per hour. So it means in Bentley, 5 people produce engines and they only work 150 days one year,(which means working for 5 months and have 7 month holiday), nd then Bentley charge us huge amount of money to afford their holiday. oop. stop, stop, in this video, the number of workers are far more than 5, where are they from?
I have never seen a video with such bickering in the comments. I would be curious to know how many of the naysayers are engineers or have actually designed any type of involved process such as seen in this video. It would be interesting to see the ratio of "armchair quarterbacks" to actual professionals...
Well, i can point out a couple of mistakes that -in that quality class- is just plain wrong and bad, for example, you never tighten bolts one after one completely tight at first, you screw them in place, and then tighten them in a cross pattern, one of the simplest techniques a mechanic has to know
I can never decide what is more impressive and fascinating, the finished engine or the manufacturing process. That front drive transmission reminds me of the old Cadillac El Dorado, not exactly the same as the Eldo was all internal with integral differential, this has exterior driveshaft runnng forward. Impressive machine.
Nice to see VW vr6 tech work its way up the family tree. You know it's a tight German assembly production when a Brotha has a white polo shirt on assembling bottom and top end. Much respect
as someone who has been repairing cars since Reagan was president...I appreciate the engineering and the workmanship in these automobiles...that said, they have built a car that is virtually unrepairable.
it's not ordinairy plastic, but teflon, and that is used for decades. You see it also on a motor cross bike, as a chain tensioner, and it's also used i the kitchen to cut meat on. It never ages so it doesn't get hard and brital as normal plastic, and metal almost can't cut into it.
it does age and get damaged ... .my ford had the same bull stit and my nissan had it and after 180 k you hear the peices all over the place in the cover and the chain is very slack ..... the plastic is stupid cheap engineering make to break ...
I have had the privilege of being given a private tour of this factory in Crewe, and let me tell you it was fantastic. These are some of the finest craftsmen and women in the world. Their expertise is second to none. I'm not just talking about the engine though, the whole car is a work of art from beginning to end. Watching someone hand build an engine, or hand polish wood, or even put the final stitches into the leather on the steering wheel by hand "which can sometimes take 50 hours to make!) was just amazing to see. Only once you see it all in action will you fully appreciate what an amazing car a Bentley is. Also some of these people have worked in the factory for 30 years or more, so they understand the tradition that is upheld, making a Bentley totally Unique to any other car. I have to say that through personal experience, even a Rolls Royce doesn't quite stack up to a Bentley Mulsanne for example which is 100% hand built at Crewe (which is why they cost £250k), whilst the Continental ranges bodies are made in Germany before being shipped to the UK for the car to be finished at the factory using both handcrafting and machine processing. Overall though it is a great marque who make superb automobiles :)
I'm nine years late but woah that's impressive.
So nice to find a video where they are not changing camera shots every 2 seconds and yelling at you about why this or that is the best. Thumbs up from a dude in oregon.
Thank you for not adding crappy music or annoying narrative over the top!
Wear headphones, dude directing in the background is annoying.
Un grand respect pour cette belle mécanique. Un oeuvre d'art.
Cool Video. I really like the fact that the original sounds and noises of the factory at work were left in and not some cheesy music dubbed over it. It gives me a better appreciation of the work they do. Which, to me, wouldn't be "work". I think it would be awesome to have a job building one of the finest cars on the planet. Even if my salary didn't allow me to actually own one. But maybe a good used one. At least you know you'd save money on the maintenance of it, which I'm sure is quite expensive.
Hit the nail on the head there!
From somebody whom took R8 v10 engines a lot of times for just an oil leak or damaged chain I'll have to say that was really amazing to watch and the lil ideas that are used do open my mind to a lot thank you for posting that clip
I find this oddly satisfying with how organised and clean everything is there
+joe hudson but think of working there.... screwing the same series of bolts 8 hours a day 5 days a week for 40 years...
+PHUSII So you think they made exactly the same engine for 40 years? And I'm pretty sure they're not stuck all there life at the same post.
+joe hudson You can't be in those rooms for long though. There is overpressure there so no dust get's in. Feels so very weird
painmagnet1 the disadvantage is cost sometimes but when a human is doing the job it checks the product he is assambling on defects etc etc. A robot is not that acurate on that. You can use vision systems but sometimes defects slip true it. But a robot does not have to go for lunch and toilet and coffee. Its a balance you have to find. Specialy your industry airplane parts. 10 km up in the sky there are no emergency lanes and parking spots.:-)
+J IJzer Wow. That is unbelievably insulting. Some of those workers mightn't know what it takes to design an engine, but I'll bet what they do have in spades is the ability to concentrate for long periods of time whilst paying attention to the smallest details.And I'm also sure that whilst it is an unusual configuration, the fact that it's a W12 is irrelevant - it will still function that same as any other IC engine, so I'm sure the assembly line worker know exactly how they work.
I found this very Therapeutic and relaxing
awesome. I got a VR6 gti crazy to see it like this! two of my motors in one! so sweet.
Nice to see an assembly like this not be ruined by voiceover, music or sound effects. So good.
This engine broke 7 endurance records in 2002 and one of them was 24 hour endurance record. VW's Nardo W12 Coupe concept covered a distance of 7000+ km at an average speed of 300 km/h.
do an endurance test beyond the warranty please
Any engine can run well and impress when new. The real test is how it stays together after 20 years and several hundred thousand kilometers. Most of these newer designs will suffer all kinds of problems even just out of warranty. And good luck trying to service them while they're installed in a car!
hhmmm🤔..wonder why vw doesnt make the W series w6 ,w8 & w12 cylinder engines anymore??
12:00 HOLY MOLY! Thats a massive engine assembly, last time I saw something that big it was having a semi-tractor being built around it. Fitting though, Ettore Bugatti famously called the Bentley of his era the worlds fastest lorry. ;-)
must be a very relaxing job. be neat to see bentley build a lightweight supercar based on their LeMans cars.
would never be bored working on this beast!
"No I'm not working overtime!" LOL
But in all seriousness, the level of engineering and design that has gone into these engines is truly phenomenal.
Lol....I just love the precision mounting 10:48..."Bang".."right".
It would have been nice to hear that sucker run during dyno testing.
Very impressive, how quiet these installation hall is. 😲
1:21 - I know lets make a car with two 6 cylinder engines strapped together! That engine block looks like it could do 0-60 right there on the machine! Beautiful :)
5:17 listening radiohead, THIS is the best engine by the best technician
Wonderful video! Thanks for not adding any BGM and removing noice (Could've added the ENGINE running sound as all others say); it was lovely to watch it peacefully
Chillest factory ever
Now I understand what the W configuration is. Love that ring compressor with the locating pins. Used to use fuel line hose for the lower conn. rod guides when installing pistons. Obviously a clearance engine the way he rotates those cams in place. Was the tester at the end of the engine build testing exhaust valve leakage? All hand built, beautiful and rare these days. That is one potent looking power plant. Very quiet, too ;-). Thx for the vid.
a head gasket job on this probably costs as much as an acura
A MONSTER OF AN ENGINE. IT'S MASSIVE!! IT'S THE SIZE OF MY WHOLE CAR!!
Do the workers get beaten if they talk?
All too busy chewing gum.
TAOFLEDERMAUS don't you have your own channel where you shoot stuff?
Yes, and that is why there are sections of dead air. That dead air is when an automated robotic arm reaches down and cattle prods the workers in the back of their necks for talking on the line.
ssshhhhhhhhh youre going to get them in trouble
Wilson il Perso
They do if they fuck up
The Technology involved in this process is astounding and inspirational.
For those of you interested the specs of this engine are:
Horsepower-616 @6000 RPM Torque-590 ft lbs @ 2000 RPM Engine Displacement - 5998cc
+rbagel55 It may be apocryphal, but I heard a story of a punter asking "What is the horse power?", to which the answer was given "Sufficient!"
Mike Collins
Yeah Horsepower is supposed to be
the work produced from a horse within a
certain time period -- an hour I think.
But think about it, a Clydesdale Horse can
do a hell of lot more work than a Shetland Pony --- right?
Ah - but it's not just any old dobbin - it's a *standard* horse, kept in the office of the exchequer! :-)
+rbagel55 Sorry to be pedantic but horsepower would be the instantaneous power developed. Over a period of time it would be joules, or whatever the imperial version of that is.
+dopiaza2006 Well, if we're really into pedantry, 1HP = 746Watts.
If you Google "Measurement of a horsepower", there's any amount of detail on how it was developed.
Basically, a dray horse lifts a weight by pulling on a rope that runs over a pulley.
The work done is (weight lifted) x (distance it was lifted), and power is (work done) / time taken.
The horse can lift 1lb easily, but it can't lift it far in a given time because it can only run so fast.
It can lift 300lb, but it can't lift it far because it's damned heavy, and it struggles.
They messed around with the weight, taking measurements, till (Weight x distance / time) was at a maximum, and that was declared to be a developed horsepower.
What a beautiful piece of mechanical precision.
What a quiet ass factory.
I'm impressed at the lubricants and metallurgy that let them pump that much power through those tiny main and connecting rod bearings.
It would be great to work for a company like Bentley, but watching this gives me flashbacks to the nightmares of factory work.
The W12 engine of VW Group (and very specially, its twin turbo versions for Bentleys) is simply a stunning wonder of engineering.
Congratulations to all the people involved in its creation (from the first to the last: R+D mechanical design engineers, workers building it at Bentley Factory... and so on...). Good job!!!
Kind regards from Barcelona,
Joan (John in Catalan).
4:04 ,with chain instead of timing belt!Good engine!!
+Magic mirror sarcasm?
it is such a pleasure watching things got tighten up by spinning those screws
I'd like one of these in my garage, just to look at.
These videos are therapeutic.
Now add binaural audio so they become the ultimate car guy therapy videos :3
Imagine rebuilding one of those!
TheAssassin650 not hard
TheAssassin650
Odious Ktenology I see plastic bit's were the transmission chains are
All OHC engines have plastic timing chain guides. All the European, American, Japanese, all of them. That they don't use a more durable gear drive just drives home the idea that they really aren't concerned about long term durability.
Beautifully compact engine. There must be a bunch of side thrust on those piston skirts.
Good lord that's a hulking great big engine....
only a v12
Its a W12. Would'nt fit under the bonnet of a Honda.
Lyndon Pedersen honda wouldn't need a w12, a v12 would do just fine.
Lyndon Pedersen Well seems it doesn't fit the Golf either seeing it as they had to use the entire rear end.
The engine is actually really short. Nice for front engine AWD, and for mid engined cars.
This was pretty neat. I had never seen how a W12 engine was configured. Its no wonder their cars are so big. That's not a small engine.
No sound on the one part i really wanted to hear. Im so sad right now.
This is more than an internal combustion motor;this is a work of art!
The sad thing is, machines like Bentley are expensive for one reason and one reason only; human fallibility. You can send a human to work to do the same job for 40 years, and despite his/her vast experience, they will eventually, at some undetermined and unforeseeable point, come to work one day and just f*** up. If you want to build a sophisticated product that is "flawless" and operates "perfectly", you have to institute computer control systems to track EVERY SINGLE THING the humans do.....day after day, year in and year out...for that day when they come to work and f*** up. And THAT type of monitoring and oversight is EXPENSIVE. This is why manufacturing is excited about robotics... machines are already "baby sitting" the humans, so take the humans out of the equation and just let the machines build the thing EXACTLY as it is designed. This way, no one's motor fails because Joe was having relationship problems, or Becky has a drinking problem, or Jimmy's in love and can't focus at work. Humans are magnificent, yes... but they are not well suited machines for flawless, repetitive manufacturing. Humans shine on the creative side. Let's leave the mechanized work to robots who have no social life. ;-)
+Mike Bernard
Maybe but Joe, Becky and Jimmy need their weekly wage.
Plus, makes life more interesting if one makes a mistake, when you look back on it of course ha ha
Or just swap this POS for an LS and be done with it for the next million miles.
I love cars, and here in Brazil is difficult to see these cars on the street, are impressive, I would love to see more of them here.
I am disliking ONLY because there were ZERO engine sounds when it was running. Blasphemy.
agree, besides that, it was amazinig
Yea seriously, go through all this engine porn and fuck up the moneyshot.
Thirded. Whoever the old hag in charge of the sound oughta be hung.
AimlessMoto 😂😂😂😂
AimlessMoto 🎮🎮🎮🎮
Exellent engine!... Perfect engineer work.
It would be nice to have some commentary voice explaining what is happening. Because I sometimes lack the knowledge and I think I am not the only one (I hope).
He would of just said an over complicated version of "bits of metal combine to make car fast"
Most shows are destroyed by commentary and background music. loved the raw video.
Cheesey 80's music and patronizing voices ?
Zib Zoolander You got it!
Basically through the whole video they were just assembling the engine and transmission
that's one hell of an engine, i have never heard of these before
Best part has no audio !! :-(
It would sound rubbish due to the room acoustics and extractor fans.
Even the assembly machines are awesome:)
I would go mental with that robot warning noise
agree,,very irritating noises
Super insight into the amazing engineering process of building one of these. I still cant help thinking we have got to move away from building such massive, fuel hungry and expensive things for transporting a few people around if we are ever to save this planet?
I am still wondered by the fact that these engines are called "W Configuration". I see 2 banks of 6 cylinders in a "V" configuration requiring 2 cylinder heads. For it to be a "W" configuration it would be required to have 3 banks of 4 cylinders requiring 3 cylinder heads (2 at 90 degrees to each other and a third in between them) I' know that they are called W12's and me saying that it is wrong isn't going to make every manufacturer change their design but i still think it isn't a true "W" configuration.
well the original W engines were as you say, 3 banks with one camshaft, you can refer to modern W engines as double V or VV aswell
It's called a 'W' because it's a double banked 'V'...hence 'W'.
I understand why its called a W but from an external view with the engine fully assembled it makes a V shape, that is all i was saying
You have a point.
Filed under "there is nothing new under the sun", Allison (General Motors) made the v-1710 throughout WW2, powering the P-40, P-38, and P-39 fighters......
Later in the war, when a more powerful engine was needed for the new Boeing B-29 bombers, Allison submitted their entry-the V-3420....essentially 2 V-1710's laid out around a common crankshaft ala this VW-designed Bentley motor....The Germans did the same thing with the Diamler (Mercedes) DB600 series engines in an effort to also produce a more powerful bomber engine.
Neither the Allison nor the Diamler was a particularly good engine, and both were laid to rest without all of the "bugs" worked out, in favor of simpler 14, 18, and 28 cylinder radial engines......
FYI
what about the plastic at 4:05?
Nice to see automation/robots being used to assist humans and not replace them. Wonderful to watch a finely cast and machined piece of hardware, skillfully assembled by hand.
And we don't get to hear it run? What's the deal?
Swoją drogą to fajny taki silniczek V12.
engine so nice they gave it a shirt
very neat, very clean , precision work that i love
5:50 a piece of foam padding is left inside what looks to be a turbo inlet before it's capped off.
+Povl Besser it looks like foam, however look closely, is an inlet in the turbo! probably for air sensor or something, :)
Kommentator the one is assembled in this video is twin turbo
@@komentierer What are you talking about, this is a twin turbo W12 for a Bentley GT
Quelle magnifique machine !
Merci pour la mise en ligne !
Patrick Le Mans
one day in the near future some kid will say. "i dont want to ride in that car, its so old, and it can only go 240mph"
and it makes so much noise
the cinematography in this is actually really cool.
Do basically, it's a Volkswagen engine? You put two VR6 engine in a V6 configuration but still in the same block to make a W12? So it's basically a twin VR6 in a VR angle to add another VR6 engine? Is that it? Cause that's really what it seems like, and if I'm wrong I'm not being sarcastic or rude. I'm truly trying to understand. It's a double VR6 engine design?
Yes its two VR6 engines mated together basically.
GraniteBees
and the same goes for Bugatti's W16, basically that's two VR8 bolted together in a V shape :)
Freakschwimmer yessir
You are totally right i can't hear them saying w12, w16, etc.. it is an v-vr 12
Don't listen to other people when they say it is an w-engine. it is a v-vr i learned it as a mechanic in germany
sry for my bad english
Que buen motor, que buena organización !
All I need to do now is fit that into my Austin 1800.
xD
With a great deal of difficulty and a lot of money lol
lol
Без суеты, без клича "Давай, Давай", ровно, планомерно и качественно.
would be better if we could hear the fucking engine.
It would be better if we didn't have retards bitching about free videos that are offered to them on the internet. Go bitch about something you actually paid for you useless tool.
wow, you are having a very bad day. please spit your venom on to someone who cares about your opinion, thankyou.
alberto gordillo wow that's cute I see what you tried to do there....
I'd love to see the new V8s being made, with their cylinder shutdown system. It'd be interesting to see how it works, exactly, when being put together.
remember when real craftsmen built things? the humans were there for esthetics.
kleetus92 amen..
Now that is a MASSIVE W12 engine. Man this is like from a Tank. POWAAA!
Somebody likes Johnny Cash!
Interesting to see the W12 engine come together. I'm still partial to the V12 design, but I suppose the space savings can't be discounted. Interesting to see the front differential integrated with the transmission. I was surprised the half shafts aren't bigger to handle all the power. I'd still rather have an AMG.
No sound for start up? Feel like I got set up for blue balls here :/
I could watch this all day. You gotta hand it to the Brits, they're good at some things and this is certainly one.
4:05 The secondary timing chain tensioner is plastic? Jaguar made that mistake in the 1990's and learned from it. Why is Bentley Motorcars still applying the same concern?
+Apocalyps Being Volkswagen, I'd be prepared for anything to happen.
+Alex Serrano lol Well put.
+Apocalyps i noticed too. thats stupid. if its about economy on price or weight, Bentley is expensive toy and very heavy for sport car. they could use duralum
+Alex Serrano I just wanted to say cheers from my 24 year old VW Golf which is still going great, without any general repairs :)
Wojciech940 Modern Volkswagens have nothing to do with old ones. Modern cars have barely anything to do with old ones at large, I'd say.
Amazing and fascinating how they make these high quality engines, must require a lot of knowledge and dedication to make these engines.
The Mercedes AMG plant makes these guys look like toddlers playing with legos. One guy in this video hit a cam lobe with a wrench, another fella torqued a bellhousing bolt fully while all the others were still loose. Even the machine that puts rtv on the block doesn't even go around the bolt holes completely. AMG also uses a single Master Mechanic to build a single engine from start to finish. There is really no comparison, except for Ferrari.
Manual engine building should be a religious order done by ordained monks...
Just awesome hands down, no wonder they cost so much and that's just the engine!
interesting, but...
that's not a true w12 configuration; it's a modified v12...
a true "w" configuration has 3 banks of 4 cylinders running off of a single crankshaft...
the block has a distinct w shape...
sorry, just saying...
Yeah I thought I seen true w motors being made in a video and was for a bugatti
+dave oh (dave oh13) and you are so right !!!!! I said the same thing at another video site, and by the nasty responses that came back, a person would have thought I had suggested peeing on the virgin Mary's grave.
this is a compound V, NOT a W lay out. thank god there is at least one other person out there who understands / realizes that. VW should have their ass kicked for promoting this misunderstanding by incorrectly calling the compound V veyron engine a W.
+dave oh (dave oh13) Yup. This engine is just two VR6's joined together.
+DrathVader good great vtech
+carkunkula That is where English language sucks sometime. In Latin and Gernman languages, W is spelled "double V" instead of "double U". VW choose the former pronunciation which means the company is still technically correct.
that looks like the most satisfying and soothing job.
Totally freaks me out that a guy appears to use a domestic electric drill to torque up the big end bearings on the con rods, and not even a bit at a time, just zap one bolt, zap the other. Same thing with the cam covers just zap up one bolt at a time, no attempt to cross torque them! I just hope there is another torque process that follows!
It's made by Bosch, and they have a line of precision fastening torque tools for factory assembly. Makita, Metabo, and a number of others do as well. Would I trust the assembly of such an expensive engine to it? No way! I also hope there is another torque process!
That's just the initial torque to keep the caps in place. I guarantee you a machine set the final jointing torque.
coolest thing I've seen all day
We don't even get to hear the engine?! It seems that all the loud sounds in this video were edited out...
tubamacmac
I can't believe how clean that factory is.
very cool but here is one thing i dont understand. Ive seen alot of these engine build videos. Why dont the guys fitting the crank. connecting rods. pistons. cams and anything to do with the timing chain. have an oil or assembly lube bottle? surely a high end company like this doesent dry assemble engines and rotating parts. It must be off camera that im not seeing it.
yes it must be off camera. If you check the movie between 1:25 and 1:30 you can see oil in the cylinders and you don't saw nobody put it there. It must be the same for the other parts.
Every single nut, bolt, washer and most parts have an anti corrosive oil on them to prevent corrosion while waiting for assemble and it aids assemble too. Notice he did oil the cylinders. But the next time you fix your own car, oil every single screw you put it. They'll go in easier and they'll go in farther which means tight, like on a new car. Dry nuts and bolts are the norm in the backyard and in the typical "pro" shop. Not so on the assembly line.
What a beast of an engine, I am fortunate enough to know what one feels like at full throttle. Exhilarating.
yep, can I order one in a crate motor for my holden commodore?
So much complexity. It's amazing that they don't go wrong all the time
Let's do some calculations.
This video length is 15min, plus the transportation time between different platform, let's say the totally time is 30mins, because they also has V8, V10, it's much easier than a W12.
The Bentley announced they sold 10,120cars in 2013.
Let's say, a worker in Bentley only work 150 days per year, 8 hours per day.10120 is diveded by 150*8, equal to 8.4 engine per hours.From the video, one worker can produce 2*W12 engines per hour.
So it means in Bentley, 5 people produce engines and they only work 150 days one year,(which means working for 5 months and have 7 month holiday), nd then Bentley charge us huge amount of money to afford their holiday. oop. stop, stop, in this video, the number of workers are far more than 5, where are they from?
You're an idiot..
Like a big watch. Beautiful!
It'll be electric soon, thank heavens.
I have never seen a video with such bickering in the comments. I would be curious to know how many of the naysayers are engineers or have actually designed any type of involved process such as seen in this video. It would be interesting to see the ratio of "armchair quarterbacks" to actual professionals...
Well, i can point out a couple of mistakes that -in that quality class- is just plain wrong and bad, for example, you never tighten bolts one after one completely tight at first, you screw them in place, and then tighten them in a cross pattern, one of the simplest techniques a mechanic has to know
I can never decide what is more impressive and fascinating, the finished engine or the manufacturing process. That front drive transmission reminds me of the old Cadillac El Dorado, not exactly the same as the Eldo was all internal with integral differential, this has exterior driveshaft runnng forward. Impressive machine.
So many doctors in mechanical engineering in the comments who know better than VW.
Love the bit from 1.22 when they start fitting the pistons! 2.31 onward to see how all they all work!
so this is like two vr6 engines
+KRYS007 yep
I'd have said twin bank V rather than W lol
true. and the bugatti w16 is a double vr8.
Got to love the VR6. It's in many of Volkswagen groups brands.
Siegbert schnösel there's no vr8
A w8 with a 4.0 litres displacement
2 w8's together makes a w16 with 8 litres displacement
Nice to see VW vr6 tech work its way up the family tree. You know it's a tight German assembly production when a Brotha has a white polo shirt on assembling bottom and top end. Much respect
sound is missing in alot of places,
+MissMan666
Amateur videographer, no buzz track... not smooth audio and you can hear him cueing workers.
+N4CR5 Ahh, but it's so much nicer without all that crappy noise (they call music) in the foreground instead of the background.
as someone who has been repairing cars since Reagan was president...I appreciate the engineering and the workmanship in these automobiles...that said, they have built a car that is virtually unrepairable.
such a high end engine and they still use plastic inside the timeing chain cover .. fml
In the AMG assembly, they do the same.
Pretty damn stupid
it's not ordinairy plastic, but teflon, and that is used for decades. You see it also on a motor cross bike, as a chain tensioner, and it's also used i the kitchen to cut meat on.
It never ages so it doesn't get hard and brital as normal plastic, and metal almost can't cut into it.
it does age and get damaged ... .my ford had the same bull stit and my nissan had it and after 180 k you hear the peices all over the place in the cover and the chain is very slack ..... the plastic is stupid cheap engineering make to break ...
Michael Gutierrez
I never heared people complaining about early worn out teflon chain tensioners.
The most beautiful thing I have seen in my life...