April 2010 News

Auto Union Crankshaft

In April, Crosthwaite and Gardiner completed the machining and assembly of the crankshaft for the latest Auto Union project. In any ordinary car, this would be of little significance, but this is no ordinary car. The Hirth coupling, multi-piece crankshaft is the heart of the 6 litre, V16 supercharged engine. Like so many parts for these extraordinary cars, it is a great shame that (hopefully) nobody other than C&G will ever see this piece of engineering sculpture.

The crankshaft assembly comprises 1100 individual parts and took over 1000 hours to manufacture.