I don't believe any of UK members have posted one of these. Napier Deltic. Opposed piston 2-stroke diesel. I discovered these watching youtube. Used in PT boats and railroad engines.
From what I've been able to research this is a fake engine made up of 2 R 4360 bolted together. It has no crank.
The Oakland design was almost identical to the Horsch or the other way around. Right down to the single plane crank. Anyone know which was first?
I think the caption in the article has a typo, should read v12. I if you count the spark plugs there are only 6 per side.
Interesting, I'd not seen a Horch before, Google says the Northway Oakland was 1930-31, Horch 1933-40.
1921 Hispano-Suiza 6.6L inline 6. Crank began life as a 600# billet. Engine produced a whopping 32hp. The car this came in is currently for sale on BaT if you have some spare change laying around (current bid is $101,000 with 6 days left).
Could not find on bring a trailer. Real confused with tire to left of engine & steering box in pic. Oh - spare tire on front fender…. Not confused now ( smile )
I first saw one of these when I was about 16. Since then, I've always wanted to put one in a T-bucket or roadster, something with an open engine bay.
Here are 2 versions of a somewhat odd engine. The intake was cast into the block and there was no exhaust manifold. The small shared ports emptied directly into 3 square holes cut into the exhaust pipe.
^^^^that is odd^^^ How about sharing what kind of vehicle; make, model, etc that its in Pretty interesting
I was wondering if anyone would recognize it. J Hansen is right. It is a Nash 195.6 cu in flat head six. The one in the car has a single I barrel carb and cast iron head. The one on the stand has a hi comp aluminum head an 2 x 1 carbs. My first car was 12 year old 1954 Nash Canadian Statesman. It had the iron head with a large (at least physically) 2 bll. If I remember correctly it was rated at 90hp. Another peculiarity was a very rudimentary water pump on the side of th engine driven from the back of the generator.
I found this in my basement archive today, we've seen the Lyons heads before but I thought some might like the additional information.
^ 2 grand for a set of exotic heads was real money in 1966!^ A brand new base model Chevelle was $2275.
Well I went through the entire post and I didn't see this so I am posting it. Title says unusual and I think a Maytag fits the bill.
If you've ever seen old photos of houses with a washing machine on the back porch, that's the reason why.
The Jalopy Journal
