The Merlin engine was a V12 produced by Rolls-Royce and utilized ... DOHC architecture, alloy block and heads, and flat plane crank which is a feature on the Shelby GT350's Voodoo V8 as well ...

Each of the dozen Aeroboats to be built will pack a reconditioned, marinized, fuel-injected Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 engine – the same 27-liter powerplant that propelled the Spitfire. With 1,100 ...

the real reason that the bent-12 engine program is being dropped is simply because the block is too long. A V12 is, for all intents and purposes, the same length as an inline-six, and the German ...