The same engine was also built in England as the Wolseley Viper. It gave the Wolseley company experience with overhead camshafts which they used later in the car engines.
Probably a fairly well known engine by now because of the recent publicity caused by the recreation of the Beast of Turin. The Fiat S76. I note a comment in the link that the original as built for the record breaking car and it was later adapted, in pairs, as an airship engine. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/01/people-wonder-what-largest-displacement.html
The 1903 De Dietrich-Bugatti Type 5. The first photo I found on the net of the partly finished recreation. The rest I took at a Bugatti Rally in Molsheim, France, in September 2016.
Not unusual, but one BADASS motor! The Pratt& Whitney 4360 (4360 cubic Inches), 3,500 HP. Weighing 3,800 pounds . As a kid I could hear and I loved the sound of two of these mills lifting 75,000 pounds of C-119 Flying Boxcar into the sky, gaining altitude after lifting off at the then Portland Air Force Base.. I will never forget the sound! Talk about days gone by! BIG piston engine airplanes!!!!!!
My Dad helped maintain a fleet of those C-119 at Davis Field, Muskogee, Oklahoma, back in the sixties. Several times I got to go to work with my Dad on “ bring your family to work” days. Got to get up close to those airplanes and engines. My dad taught me the trade that would put food on the table 40+ years. Even thought he insisted that all of his kids get a four year degree, I made my living from what he taught me. It was good to have a good teacher. He always told me “ if a man made it, you should be able to fix it”. Used that saying to always enjoy jumping into something new. Bones
If we are talking about aircraft engines. When I went to work for UAL, these were my favorites to look at, Curtes-Wright R3350 Turbo compound. Exhaust drove turbins that were geared into prop shaft.
TB33anda3rd may have better info on this than I. Taken at an antique machinery show in Kent, CT. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Ford 300 inline six w/ prototype crossflow cylinder head in an altered roadster drag car. Same engine in a '30s era champ car replica.
I once read something about a differential-compound engine. If I remember correctly an exhaust-driven turbine drove an asymmetric differential which apportioned torque between a centrifugal compressor and the crankshaft. I seem to remember the thing ending on the math required to optimize the differential asymmetry not existing at the time of writing. It's a fascinating concept.
Nope. Hispano-Suiza J12. Maybach's automobile V12s had a single dist. at the front. Its kind of hard to see, but there is a little H-S logo on the firewall.
The Mopar turbine reminds me Ford had an experimental OTH truck turbine engine. Poor fuel economy ended the program. I think some of those Mopar turbine cars still exist as there were a handful built.
47 Knuck that is a Garwood (if you look ahead of the engines you will see Garwood Industries. It looks to be Gar Wood in the center seat and they appear to be Packard Liberty 12s. Probably one of his early Garwood gold cup boats in the early 20s. He won many gold cup titles with Packard 12 engines-both Liberty and later marine 12s. Here is a picture I took of Miss America X with 4 Packard marine engines. He won the Harmsworth trophy with this boat at 138mph I believe. This boat is owned by the Mistele family and Harold Mistele a coal dealer from Detroit saved and restored two Miss America boats and went to court over the ownership of a third. I saw this boat before it was restored and of course after-this picture is probably 12 years ago or so. Imagine the noise and the balls to stand behind these engines at speed.
More on the Ford turbine I posted awhile back Gas turbine mounted in 1955 T-bird engine compartment. Note huge exhaust pipe routing, heat shielding on firewall. Master cylinder is enclosed in metal heat-shielding housing. Creative’s aircraft engineers wanted to do something similar for Ford FX-Atmos and Mystere concepts. For the long story on the T-bird, a concept, trucks and others look here: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/more-on-the-turbine-1957-ford-t-bird.1057028/
Everyone has seen these: smallest US built V8, 215 Oldsmobile. 1/3 the production of the Buick (Simca had a smaller V8) this is the second design 427 Mystery 427 engine MKII Pontiac I-6 OHC engine Mark 1 Z11 engine using the W heads VERY few were built as they were waiting on the Porcupine heads
Love the Packard powered boats............if one is good, two or four must be better......lol...........andyd
Don't know who made this V-20 engine, but the design and mechanics look so cool. Now its a table, even thanks cool.
I love seeing these old exposed valvetrain engines. I can imagine some junior engineer suggesting putting covers on them to keep the oil contained, only to be laughingly mocked by his senior with, "zat iss what ze hood is for, dummkopf."
Bristol Hercules Engine. I thought this would be kinda cool to see cutaways of some of the engines that have been posted on this thread.
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