It looks looks some 4 cam 32 valve V8in thee "Land Speed" display. Next to a familiar looking Yellow Plymouth/Ford engine. Maybe the Jim Feuling Oldsmobile.https://www.museumofamericanspeed.com/fuelingoldsmobile.html
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I love the variation of engines that this thread shows and have a question that this Synergy family of engines has made me ask.......in that pic of the Synergy engine design it shows what I assume to be the oil filter upside down at the front between the cylinders........so when you change the oil I would think with the filter in this position the filtered oil would still via gravity run down thru the engine..........or, if you change the filter before changing the oil oil from the filter would run all over the engine, albeit only at the front but still not the best from what I can see.............so.........is it me that has this wrong and am I missing something?............Oh and I am certainly NOT an engine designer in any shape or form and dips my lid(hat) in respect to all those that have been and are........lol..........Andy Douglas
There was a movie made of the race that the special was entered in, and I watched the whole thing in 1955. I remembered it leading most of the race, and the fact that it didn't finish. I didn't remember why it failed to finish, but I do remember how excited everyone was that a Diesel was in a position to win until the engine died. Bob
I have been running a Hone o Drive in my truck since 1971, and although they stopped making them for awhile, they are now back in production. I didn't check the prices, but when I bought mine in 1971, it cost me $700. I don't know what the new units cost, but in today's dollars, I paid $4,336.00, and it was worth every penny, because I ran 4.57 gears and still got good mileage. http://hone-o-drive.com/ If I wanted to to add an OD in a less expensive way, I would find and install a T5. Bob
The vertical tube for the bevel gear/shaft drive of the OHC along with the green paint say it’s a Duesey to me. Might be a Duesenberg Model A.
Loudbang....can I guess?.......Duesenberg?........its got eight plugs and is that bright green that the J & SJ's are always painted it seems.......can't read the plaque....can I have it if its unclaimed?...........lol.........andyd
The reason the car didn’t finish the race, I’m told, was because the intake for the air had a fine screen mounted kinda low to the track and picked up rubber bits from the tires. This clogged up, started the diesel smoking, got black flagged due to smoke. IIRC, they then outlawed the diesel for the 1956 race because of that. Bones
How about an air cooled Franklin with Weber side drafts in a Packard chassis speedster. Sow this few years back at a cruise in in the Hudson Valley. Sounded great. https://content.invisioncic.com/r277599/monthly_09_2013/post-89954-143142180605.jpg
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