OK, I'll admit it, sometimes I'm slow ... real slow
I pasted some pics of the 8 cylinder Konny being raced at Depue today on Screamandfly and there were some questions from guys who had never seen a Konig opposed 4, much less a monstrosity like the stacked up 8. They asked about the rotary valves and pipes. The rotary valves were easy to explain, but to answer why the pipes were paired the way they were actually escaped me. I knew the cylinders fired as pairs, top two together as one pair and bottom two together as the other pair 180∘later than the top pair. It never occurred to me until today that the pipe pairing, front and back rather than the cylinders that fire at the same time, is a continuation of the Christner 180∘firing "converging" system as used on so many Mercs.
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