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Originally Posted by geeteeone
Not in 1998, it wasn't. They ran the V12 CLK-GTRs at Silverstone, and then switched to the V8 engined CLK-LM from Hockenheim onwards. The Persson team continued to run the old CLK-GTR V12s.
The reason the V8 used in FIA-GT sounded different to the Le Mans engine was because it was a flat-plane crank V8, which is very much like having two four cylinder engines driven off a common crank. The Le Mans engine was cross-plane crank, which uses a completely different firing order and results in the characteristic US-style V8 'burble'.
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Interesting, I was dissapointed with the V8 CLK-LM's when I saw them at Donington, they sounded like a Mondeo V6 Touring car!
Similarly, the V12 CLK-GTR's were nothing like the old Jag V12's, just a quiet woosh.