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  1. stude54ht
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    That thing has an awful lot of cylinders for a 4360. Which as a 4 row engine 7 cylinders per row. I don't know what that is. this is a 4360 800px-Pratt_&_Whitney_R-4360_Wasp_Major.jpg
     
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    Your right. This engine was on display at the Reno Air Races. I Think it is derived from the 4360.
     
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    Is that trailer rated for this?
     
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    12 rows? The airframe that was made for this thing would be pretty odd looking, I think. Weight and balance might be problematic.
     
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    1912 Hispano Suiza T-15 Alfonso XIII SWB

    1engine 1912 hispano suiza T15 alfonso XIII SWB.JPG

    1923 Mercedes Targa Florio

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    Maybe mounted midship as in P-39 Airacobra.
     
  9. I considered that too but how would you cool it? Judging by the cooling fins I would say this is an air-cooled engine and a P-39 had a radiator since the Allison engine normally in them was liquid cooled.
     
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  10. Wasn't there an awkward looking long-nosed Corsair?

    Might be from that?
     
  11. Great thread! I love the art of early engineering. Magnificent specimens from the seemingly simple to the intricate and complex. I am almost a little surprised that no one has posted Chrysler's inline 6 Hemi prototype based on the flathead engine of the day. They used it to prove out the hemi concept in passenger cars before tooling up for the V8.

    hemi6.jpg

    Along those same lines - I always chuckled a little bit at the advertisement for the first Hemi in Dodge trucks 133Hp compared to the 136hp found in the "economic" flathead 6 with factory dual carbs and dual exhaust: 43878728_1944438962277472_6951190292657602560_o.jpg

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    1934 MG K3 Magnette

    note plugs on firewall

    1engine 1934 MG-K3-Magnette-engine a.jpg

    supercharger
    1engine 1934 MG-K3-Magnette-engine b.jpg
     
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  13. This is the very FIRST V8 engine
    Patented in 1902 by Leon Levavasseur. He had a successful running engine, called the Antoinette V8, in a racing boat by 1904, shortly thereafter in aircraft.
    Here's whats really amazing about it. It had a simple form of Direct Injection. Note the 8 individual injector units. And it was very light.
    The picture is of the second generation larger aircraft engine. 110mm bore, 105mm stroke...7.9 ltr. and it weighed only 190 lbs. Making 50hp at 1100 rpm . Its power/weight ratio (normally aspirated) would not be exceeded for 25 years.
    By geoffrey.gregory
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    Yup, it looks like an early mechanical injection. Nowadays "direct" injection usually refers to injecting fuel directly into the cylinder at the appropriate time like Diesel engines and the more advanced gasoline fueled auto engines are doing.

    I do like the staggered stack heights too.
     
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    1954 OSCA

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    1920 Vauxhall Type E 30 98 Velox

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    1933 Alfa Romero 8C Monza

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    GN Jap special

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    1929 Sunbeam

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    1933 Packard 12 Sport Phaeton

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    1929 Mercedes Benz SSK

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    just beautiful...
    But I always thought those exhaust header pipes would have looked better as solid stainless steel tubes. Those corrugated pipes evoke thoughts of the J.C. Whitney (Warshawsky) catalog to me.
     
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    1927 Vauxhall 30-98 Quicksilver

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    1928 Stutz Blackhawk

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    ^^^ It`s internals 1 a car.jpg
     
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  24. The Goodyear F2G Corsair used the R4360; very few built, a few in museums and one flyable one left.
     
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    1915 Pierce Arrow 48 B3

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    1920 Cunningham Series V3

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