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Breathing New Life into an Iconic Engine
Car Zero’s brand new 4½-litre engine, originally designed by W.O Bentley himself, has been created with the expert support of specialists including NDR Ltd in Watford. Featuring many innovations of which a sports car engine of the 1970s would be proud – aluminum pistons, an overhead camshaft, four valves per cylinder, and twin spark ignition – the renowned 4½-litre engine has been paired with a newly machined Amherst Villiers roots-type supercharger.
The Next Step
With the build of Car Zero now complete, a program of real-world durability testing will begin. Sessions of gradually increasing duration and speed will check functionality and robustness under ever harder conditions. The test program is designed to achieve the equivalent of 35,000 kilometers of real-world driving across 8,000 kilometers of track driving
