Renault 8G


The Renault 8G was a family of French liquid-cooled V-8 aero engines of the World War I era that produced from to.

Design and development

Construction used separate cast iron blocks for each pair of cylinders, mounted on a light-alloy crankcase with an included vee angle of 50 degrees. Each bank had a single overhead camshaft, shaft-driven through bevel gears. It was equipped with a single dual-choke updraught Zenith carburettor, and twin spark ignition through four magnetos. The crankshaft was a flat plane with three bearings and four throws, each pair of cylinders sharing a master-slave connecting rod onto the same crankpin.

Variants

;8G:
;8Ga:
;8Gb:
;8Gc:
;8Gd:
;8Gdy:
;8Ge:

Applications