Post weird engine combo

Gregster said:

It could almost be German it's so complex but it worked and proved popular except with the US Amry!. US Amry preferred the Ford V8 which was for the period a very advance engine. The Sherman was originally designed around the radial R-975.

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Big Pat said:

To be honest, the Ford GAA V-8 was a technical jewel in it's own right, with 32V and DOHC all aluminium construction.

But by today's standard, pretty standard stuff...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_GAA_engine#/media/File:Bovington_091_Ford_V8_1.jpg

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Is this the most impressive engine in drag racing history? Read this and tell me it isn’t. You are looking at the blown, nitromethane burning 2.5L Daimler hemi in the back of British Drag Racing Hall of Fame member Russ Carpenter’s car. The engine was rated at 140hp, Carpenter wrote to British Leyland in the 70s saying that he thought he could make 400hp with one. They told him it would break in half just north of 200. Using a 3-71 supercharger, the world’s tiniest bug catcher, Triumph TR6 pistons, a stock block and rods, along with a stiff load of nitro, this little monster made 1,000hp plus. His dragster went 7.20s at more than 180mph in is prime. It gets better. The chassis was so narrow and the engine so small that Carpenter could not fit a typical slipper clutch. He made his own, literally from scratch after studying drawings of a CrowerGlide unit. The engine used a STOCK intake manifold under the blower. Carpenter made the fuel system from scratch, machining stuff all the way down to the jets himself. They made rules to stop him, he won. They protested him, he won. This thing even got forced into top fuel at a race and went rounds! The car ran until the late 1980s. He still has the car and has made runs in recent years for fun. 2.5L and 1,000hp. BECAUSE NITRO.

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lord_galathon said:

Ma Capri RS Turbo 1981 avait seulement UN turbo mais c'etait un carburateur aussi.

C'etait vraiment pas fiable. Parteux mais par moments selon la temperature/humidite il buckait a 3000RPM et boguait down si on essayait de se servir du boost turbo.

En plus il avait du back pressure a cause que l'exhaust dessus etait un jobber. Mettons que j'avais paye le char 1200$ en 1987 mais j'ai du depenser un bon 5-6000 en reparations en 4 ans que je l'ai eu.

Ah un ami a moi a une Acura Type S 2006 "frankenstein." Ca sort 300HP et le moteur est tune comme une S2000 avec cutoff a 9000RPM. Son char me fait peur.

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Nikkonos said:

Damn que j'avais passé proche d'en acheté une au Japon pendant la criss des imports JDM. Elle était en superbe état.

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Big Pat said:

Aviation does have it's share of fucked up design, but few come close to the Marine/Train/Industrial wonder, the Napier Deltic.

Supercharged, opposed piston, valve-less, mutlibank 2-stroke Diesel. 18 cylinders, 36 pistons, 3 cranks.

oh yeah!

https://www.mekanizmalar.com/napier_deltic_engine_large.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Deltic

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