Patent ID: 7950229

Claim:
An exhaust system of a 4-stroke 8-cylinder internal combustion engine having a V-design, a first cylinder bank including a first, a second, a third and a fourth cylinder arranged in series side-by-side, and a second cylinder bank situated opposite the first cylinder bank having a fifth, a sixth, a seventh and an eighth cylinder arranged in series side-by-side, wherein the internal combustion engine has an ignition sequence of a 90° crank angle from cylinder to cylinder, the exhaust system comprising: a first exhaust gas turbocharger for the internal combustion engine; a second exhaust gas turbocharger for the internal combustion engine; a first, a second, a third and a fourth exhaust line, each exhaust line extending from two of the cylinders to one of the exhaust gas turbochargers, wherein the first and second exhaust gas turbochargers are assigned two of the exhaust lines; wherein of the two cylinders assigned to each exhaust line one cylinder has an ignition interval of a 360 crank angle relative to the other cylinder; and wherein the two exhaust lines extending to each exhaust gas turbocharger have a their respective two cylinders' 360° ignition intervals offset from one another by a 180° crank angle.