pancake engine

The flat configuration - "pancake engine" is yet another common description - gives the chassis designer three main benefits.

The resulting engine was arranged in the form of a large disk, which he referred to as a "pancake engine."

The pancake engine (similar to that in the Ferrari Boxer) was air-cooled and needed no antifreeze.

The nickname Pancake engine has been applied to several types of internal combustion engine, including:

The low hood is made possible by a new version of Subaru's aluminum pancake engine, in which three cylinders on each side drive a central crankshaft.

In 1952, "Project Y", a "spade-shaped" fighter powered by Frost's revolutionary pancake engine proceeded to mock-up stage.

The added power is welcome, and along with the pancake engine's low center of gravity and the anti-lock brakes, it makes the wagon relatively nimble at both ends of the start-stop equation.