24/02/2026
Le plus beau souvenir du début de ma carrière !! j'ai participé à la conception du faisceau moteur et la mis au point de l'injection sur banc moteur du Garage de l'étang de St Chamand Avignon..... il y a 30 ans ! 🤪
The Jimenez Novia W16 engine is one of the most extraordinary custom automotive engines ever constructed. Built by engineer Ramon Jimenez, this 4.1-liter W16 was created by combining four 1003cc motorcycle engines sourced from the Yamaha FZR1000. The result is a compact yet immensely complex sixteen-cylinder powerplant that showcases extreme mechanical ingenuity and precision engineering.
Performance figures are equally remarkable. The engine produces approximately 560 horsepower at 10,000 rpm and around 318 lb-ft of torque, delivering superbike-level revving characteristics in a multi-cylinder automotive format. With 80 valves in total—five per cylinder—it maintains the high-flow breathing design typical of advanced sport motorcycle engines. Power is transmitted through a six-speed manual transmission driving the rear wheels, emphasizing its raw and mechanical driving experience.
Technically, the engine features a 76.5 mm bore and 56.0 mm stroke, maintaining the oversquare, high-revving nature of the original motorcycle engines it was derived from. The W16 configuration is not a conventional factory layout but a hand-crafted engineering statement—demonstrating how modular motorcycle engine architecture can be combined into something radically ambitious and entirely unique.
