FFS, I can't afford another one!

wouldn't it, though?

Here's a hint: take a letter "L", and rotate it 45 degrees
anticlockwise.

 

Except that it's not; it's an L because of the 90° angle
and the fact that one cylinder is vertical and the other
on the horizontal ... just like an L.

 

Yes. I. Know.

I was just trying to explain why, regardless of orientation, an "L"
engine was the same as a "V".

 

Until you start going uphill

 

Damn! Hadn't thought of that...
<rushes off with notepad and pens>

 

Only if you're looking at it from the RHS.

 

Yep, ta, I at least worked that bit out. Tchh, anyone would think I was
stupid or something!

 

In Australia, it's a gamma-twin