There are numerous crankshaft configurations that are determined mainly by the design of the engine. For example, there are inline-four, V4, inline-six, 60-degree and 90-degree V6, inline-eight, V8, ...

When you get right down to it, many of the tasks involved in building a race engine are mundane. It isn't too difficult to drop a piston in a hole or bolt up an intake manifold. And neither is ...