Bore and Stroke limitation

I’m trying to recreate a BMW S65 V8 (M3 E92 engine), but unfortunately I can’t get the Bore and Stroke sizes I want in the same engine block size.

If I choose Large I can only go down to a 76mm Stroke, which is the size I’d want to achieve a 92mm Bore, but I need a 75.2mm Stroke.

Likewise if I choose Medium, the maximum Bore is limited to 88mm? I think the issue is the overlap between the engine block sizes.

http://imageshack.us/a/img140/4474/borestrokev8.png

If you look at where Small ends and Medium begins, there’s only a 3mm margin in Bore and a 6mm margin in Stroke.

The problem is, how long is a piece of string? This could go on forever, till we have 1mm Bore in Extra large and 150mm Bore in Small, but without being too extreme, I suggest that the margins could be increased a bit more, my engine for example would only need 1mm of room in the Large for Stroke, or 4mm of room for Bore in Medium.

This was one of the first things we fixed in the ongoing revamp of the Engine Designer :slight_smile: There are NO block-sizes anymore: instead you can move bore & stroke within 30% of each other between 50mm and 120mm.
Cheers!

Hi I hope this is in the right post, I tried to recreate a VW polo 2008 1.6 trendline my ex-wifes car :laughing: , the specs are this

Engine Layout
transverse inline 4
Aspiration natural
Valves sohc 2 valves per cylinder
Bore / Stroke 87.0x76.5
Capacity 1598
Compression Ratio 10.0:1
Power Output 74kw@5500
Torque 140nm@3300

when I try copy these bore/stroke settings I get a I get a 1819cc, its not a problem as all I done was change other settings to get a close kw output but for authenticity it should be right, I hope yous dont think I am being picky :open_mouth: was just trying to copy these specs :mrgreen: , thanks for reading

Regards, Jazeel

Ahh, I see your problem. Its bore/stroke is 76.5x86.9, not the other way.

Hi an thanks Kubboz for pointing that out to me I did not think of changing the 2 around as the source was reliable :unamused: , I am sorry I posted with out trying that way :mrgreen: but how else was i gona find out , thanks for reading

Regards, Jazeel

[quote=“Killrob”]This was one of the first things we fixed in the ongoing revamp of the Engine Designer :slight_smile: There are NO block-sizes anymore: instead you can move bore & stroke within 30% of each other between 50mm and 120mm.
Cheers![/quote]

Wow, how awesome! That’ll solve it for sure, thanks for answering Killrob!