Maserati's Engine Uses Formula 1 Technology

Maserati's MC20 uses pre-chamber ignition, just like Formula 1!

The Maserati MC20 uses a very unique combustion method. Most combustion engines use a single combustion chamber, made up of a piston, cylinder, and head. Maserati’s new engine uses a pre-chamber in the head, and combustion starts here in this tiny pocket. When the spark plug fires, it ignites the air & fuel mixture within the pre-chamber. At the end of the pre-chamber are little holes, which the combusting air and fuel then rockets out of, referred to as turbulent jets.

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[SCHMALLZZZ]

Nothing screams reliable like an Italian car testing new technology.

[icedad]

Had a Honda in 1985 with CVCC engine that did the same function. Was rock solid.

[DAmelonwolf]

"Maserati uses a very unique combustion process, instead of a basic single chamber for each combustion, Maserati just makes the entire engine Combust"

[leoborn]

The ultra modern 1900s Diesel technology!

[TheJared]

Similar to the old International 6.9 and 7.3 IDI diesel engines. They were called IDI for Indirect Diesel Injection and had a Pre-combustion chamber.

[pfsantos]

You know there are serious car people here when you see Honda's CVCC mentioned.

[vhateverlie]

Over a century later and we're back to Pre-combustion chambers like the old diesels of yester-year... So innovative....

[thTrombone]

Tune in for next week's show, when we discuss piston head erosion in Maserati's MC20 engines.

[valeriyreiter]

We had that in the 1980 GAZ-3102 "Volga", japanese had that technology in the 1970's, and I believe that technology is even older

[pcihector]

So....basically 1980 Honda Civic CVCC cylinder head technology. The famous 3 barrel carburetor with two idle mixture adjustments.

[LightSpirit]

The 1978 Honda Civic CVCC had done this. It had a precombustion chamber in its little 1200 cc 4 cylinder engine. I remember we would get over 50 mpg and with the car fully loaded. It was amazing. I remember one trip from Bakersfield to Los Angeles, we took a large dresser tied on the roof to a relative. We filled up before leaving and after the trip, we filled it again and checked the mileage then divided by the gallons we put in after, it came out to 52 mph. There were 5 people in that little car with a dresser tied to the roof!

[TheFarCobra]

They should call it CVCC, or Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion

[MJ-fhfw]

Always been a fan of your full length YouTube videos, which tend to be long, I'm a bigger fan of your shorts. Thank you.

[tomstech]

Also my brothers 1996 peugeot 306 Turbo diesel had this (XUD9 TE TD)

[donnycox]

In a gasoline engine it might be ground breaking but navistar has been using this idea since the early 80’s in the 6.9 and 7.3 IDI (InDirect Injection) Diesel engines. There’s a pre chamber with a glow plug and an injector, the glow plug heats up before starting, fuel is injected into the warmed up pre chamber compression then ignites the fuel and the combustion propagates into the cylinder. This is also the main limiting factor in this engine, and the reason it was replaced with the Powerstroke direct injection engine.

[sking]

Honda called their stratified-charge engine “CVCC” (Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion) — way back in 1975 …

[biomerl]

Man, they've been doing this on big diesel engines for ages. My grandpa tells stories about messing with them in the '50s

[yt]

Some people may remember flame ignition engines, Smokey Yunick had a demonstration about flame ignition as opposed to a spark plug. I was a Director at a museum where we had a number of flame ignition engines. For those that might not be understand, no magneto, no hot tube, no spark plugs, a flame. Some of these engines were fueled by propane or hydrogen or a combination of both.

[motorheadscottie]

Aside from comments a few other manufactures DID use a pre-chamber style system for emissions. BUT stopped because the cost vs profit wasnt there. It takes much more machining and precision to spread across 100, 000 cars. Im glad to see maserati step up to the plate and give customers finally what they pay for, F1 technology in a luxury car. Im not gonna disrespect anyone doing that. Good for them. Seriously.

[LeeVai]

50k miles of carbon buildup has entered the chat