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 An overhead camshaft (OHC) engine is a piston engine in which the camshaft is located in the cylinder head above the combustion chamber. This contrasts with earlier overhead valve engines (OHV), where the camshaft is located below the combustio ...

, shaft-driven through bevel gears. It was equipped with a single dual-choke updraught

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, and twin spark

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through four

magneto A magneto is an electrical generator that uses permanent magnets to produce periodic pulses of alternating current. Unlike a dynamo, a magneto does not contain a commutator to produce direct current. It is categorized as a form of alternator, ...

s. The

crankshaft A crankshaft is a mechanical component used in a reciprocating engine, piston engine to convert the reciprocating motion into rotational motion. The crankshaft is a rotating Shaft (mechanical engineering), shaft containing one or more crankpins, ...

was a flat plane with three bearings and four throws, each pair of cylinders sharing a master-slave

connecting rod A connecting rod, also called a 'con rod', is the part of a reciprocating engine, piston engine which connects the piston to the crankshaft. Together with the crank (mechanism), crank, the connecting rod converts the reciprocating motion of the p ...

onto the same crankpin.

Variants

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

Applications

* Dorand AR.1 - Renault 8Gd - 1917 * Farman F.80 - Renault 8Gd * Dorand AR.2 - Renault 8Gdy

Specifications (8Gd)

References

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