close up and thorough gallery of the Smith Master Valve Special, designed and built by Harry Lewis
Showing posts with label engines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engines. Show all posts
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Offenhauser engine, built by Meyer and Drake. A thing of beauty in design, power and performance. (I've read about 700-800 hp offy's)
Sunday, 8 April 2012
the Cyclemaster motor
Monday, 2 January 2012
The Salt 2 Salt Studebaker set some records at Bonneville this year, with an interesting 182 cu in v8
The trick of getting such a small displacement is using a tiny one year only block, and the crank from another model year to get the right numbers.
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Monday, 4 July 2011
The "identify that V8" challenge is on, I got 16 of 19
It'd be cool to know how you do, and believe me I did guess on a couple, based on color, valve covers, or most likely to be multi carbed of the choices offered.
Or play these other games
Found on http://autoculture.org/
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
least known way to score a Ferrari engine
Buy a Lancia Stratos. It had a 2.4 liter V6 Ferrari engine. Bertone coachbuilt the bodies.
It won the World Rally Championship 3 times.
They only made 500 for public sale
The Lancia 037 won the World Rally Championship, beating the Audi Quattro, and was the last 2 wheel drive to win the championship
The Lancia Fima 8.32 had the Ferrari V8 from the Ferrari Mondail and 308 . It was a 3.0 liter though, and he body was by PininFarina
Or if someone should stumble over a lost ASA 1000 Gt. Not going to happen, they were very very rare and were only built from 1963 to 1966. They cost 40% more than the nearest competitive car, the Alfa Giulia Sprint
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
VW engines identification info
REMOVED FROM MANUAL: TECHNICAL DATA FOR SERVICES IN THE WORKSHOP - VW OF BRAZIL - 1979 EDITION
POSTED BY THE END OF THE TOPIC Ednei:
GAS-Gasoline / Alcohol-ALC
BA - 1600 - BRASILIA (1976)
BD - 1600 BEETLE GAS
BG - 1600 GAS AND KOMBI KOMBI EXP
BJ - 1300 BEETLE GAS
BK - 1300 LAC BEETLE BRASILIA
BM - 1300 LAC GOL
BN - BRAZIL GAS 1600
BV - 1600 GAS VARIANT
BX - 1600 LAC KOMBI KOMBI EXP
BY - 1300 GOL GAS
BZ - 1600 GAS VAN
UF - 1600 BEETLE GAS
UG - 1600 GAS VAN
UJ - 1600 LAC BEETLE
UK - 1600 LAC VAN
Motors above 90
UFA - 1600 BEETLE GAS
UJA - 1600 LAC BEETLE
UGA - 1600 GAS VAN CARAT
This info was pulled from, and only a small part of engine id post at http://carrosehistorias.blogspot.com/2010/08/numeracao-de-motor-boxer.html
Friday, 11 February 2011
Friday, 28 January 2011
people wonder what the largest displacement factory car engine was, here's the biggest piston engine, and the 2nd n 3rd biggest that I've come across
1910 Fiat S76, the "Beast of Turin", 28.4 liter engine that is about 1730 cubic inches, 4 times as big as my 426 cu in Max Wedge. Try and imagine 4 hemis, 3/4's a hemi, or 6 of the hemi cylinders per cylinder in this aircraft engined straight 6 cylinder. Yeah, that is huge, but made relatively little power or torque because engines weren't as understood and developed in the 1910's.An outrageous creation that debuted in the early 1910s, the Tipo (Type) S76 was built by the Fiat factory in Turin presumably to break the world's Land Speed Record, which then stood at 125.95 mph. The chassis was a flimsy 1907/08 Fiat production unit with a Tipo S76DA six-cylinder airship engine of 28.4 liters (1,730 cu. in.), which developed 300 hp at 1,900 rpm.
Standing about five feet high at the radiator cap, the frighteningly top-heavy car was referred to as The Beast of Turin. Except for a brief appearance in England at the Brooklands racecourse, where it was timed at about 90 mph, it never made an impact on any records and was returned to the continent to be lost during the confusion of World War I. http://www.airportjournals.com/Display.cfm?varID=0611015
The Beast of Turin’s engine cylinder's were so large, a man could stick his head in one. When it drove down the road, flames shot 10 feet out of the exhaust.
Count Louis Zborowski, a racer and racing patron, was incredibly wealthy and his stable included a 1914 GP Mercedes and a 1919 Ballot, and he raced a Bugatti at Indianapolis. He returned home with a new American Miller race car.Chitty I was created in 1921 after Zborowski obtained a war reparations Maybach aero engine from a Gotha bomber. The 23-liter (1,409 cu. in.) six had four overhead valves per cylinder. At a modest speed of 1,500 rpm, it put out 300 hp. The chassis was an old Mercedes that had been lengthened and topped by a primitive aerodynamic body. To show it was all in fun, the exhaust pipe ran the length of the body and culminated with a turned-up tip with conical shield.
1912 Mercedes with a 21.5 liter engine, only 4 cylinders and was already posted athttp://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/if-you-have-wondered-what-largest.html
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
24 butterflies, 8 blowers, and makes 3400 hp worth of Nitrous powered grin... Mike Harrah's Detroit Diesel, does it make you feel a bit awed?
180 photo gallery of the intake and engine going together here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/learaviator/sets/72157623774941005learned about it on http://www.autoblog.hu/videok/video_24_hengeres_dizelmotor.html
not much info on the www yet, but I did find that the guy is a millionaire real estate developer, and owns the biggest of the Blastolene cars (can't recall the name, it's the one with the PT boat Packard engine) and this titan engine is going into a Peterbuilt 359
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Double Trouble, the '27 model T roadster made of eye magnet material
For a gallery of really good photography (hell of a lot better than I can do at a car show!) http://doubletroublehotrod.com/index.html with the photography of Anthony Mair
Inquistive guy huh?
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