Ok, right. I've had a crazy idea that I think would work, I've been watching Youtubes about all different engine types(I am a qualified mechanical engineer too). So my thinking is why not get 2x boxer engines and put one on top of the other giving you the benefits of every type? I mean, the crank is going to be a work of art and the biggest thing in the engine by far, but you probably ain't gonna need a flywheel with that beast spinning. But you would get all the advatages of V configurations, the balance of an inline 6 with the small size of a boxer. It'd be a....something 24.... there's not a sideways letter.... sort of like an X24 engine but the X bent at the crank so the cylinders were parallel. Is an X engine even a thing? That could work too... but I think that's basically a radial engine, but with not enough cylinders? No, I'm thinking a twin boxer inline engine. Sort of 4x inline 6s slapped back to back in twins.

It's going to be crazy expensive to build and maintain, so that's an issue, but why isn't this configuration already out there for race cars or something? To my very limited brain it just seems like it should be a thing, if you take away cost it should absolutely be a thing.