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[Rasputin]

The Porsche Flat-16 is difficult to beat;

 

Edited by Rasputin, 19 May 2015 - 17:23.

[BlinkyMcSquinty]

1935 Scuderia Milano Ruggeri-Speluzzi Air-Cooled Transverse-8 2.5-Litre Formula 1 Project

 

[BlinkyMcSquinty]

In 1973 Russ Collins built a drag bike named Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe

 

 

[Henri Greuter]

I never saw a picture of it but I once read that Alfa Romeo had built a 3 liter V12 for the 3.0 supercharged/4.5 atmo formula.

 

Each bank of 6 cylinders had an triple RootsBlower arrangement (thus 3 Roots in series) and both these arrangements were fed by a single centrifugal supercharger, so a grand total of 7(!) blowers!

 

I never saw a picture of but how thus had to be built into a chassis, whow!!!

 

 

Henri

[PlatenGlass]

I've seen far more spectacular racing engine installation threads than this one.

[Jvr]

I never saw a picture of it but I once read that Alfa Romeo had built a 3 liter V12 for the 3.0 supercharged/4.5 atmo formula.

 

Each bank of 6 cylinders had an triple RootsBlower arrangement (thus 3 Roots in series) and both these arrangements were fed by a single centrifugal supercharger, so a grand total of 7(!) blowers!

 

I never saw a picture of but how thus had to be built into a chassis, whow!!!

 

 

Henri

Not sure if this is the one, looks quite spectacular but is 2.5 liters and 180 deg boxter:

 

 

 

[Rasputin]

The Honda transverse 1.5 V12 of 1964, spectacular indeed;

 

[LeClerc]

The Porsche Flat-16 is difficult to beat;

 

I once touched one of those. Had a semi for the rest of the day 

[Radoye]

[Atreiu]

Didn't Honda once have a V6 bike?

I wonder what it's engine was like.

And who has a good pic of the RC211Vs engine?

[Gyno]

[Gilles4Ever]

Didn't Honda once have a V6 bike?

I wonder what it's engine was like.

And who has a good pic of the RC211Vs engine?

Honda's most impressive bike engine. 

 

[Rasputin]

The 1935 Alfa Romero/Ferrari Bimotore;

 

[Amphicar]

How about this:

 

 

Jim Lytle's "Quad Al" - a four wheel drive dragster (very) loosely based on a Fiat Topolino - with four V12 Allison aero engines churning out a meagre 12,000 BHP

[chunder27]

Honda did quite a few impressive bike engines.

 

250cc six.

 

125cc Five cylinder

 

50cc twin

 

500cc 4 stroke oval piston like the NR750 above.

 

But the best was of course the Moto Guzzi 500cc V8

 

Car wise, some of the mome brewed stuff I ahve seen in autograss takes some beating, supercharged Rover V8 in the back of a Mini pickup, or a 205. Twin bike engines in just about anything. 

 

The 250cc 2 stroke turbo sidecar Swissauto developed in the 80's.

[chunder27]

And don't even start about tractor pulling

 

4 Russian helicopter engines in a 4.5 tonne tractor. 6 Keith Black nitro burning engines in a tractor. 3 Packard Mustang engines in one machine.

[Rob]

It's a straight-6. Not that impressive. Only it's just 250cc in capacity and was mated to a Honda RC166 in the 1960s.

 

 

Have a listen to it.

 

[Amphicar]

 

Two Ford DOHC Indy engines in Jim Busby's 1971 AA/FD dragster

[MikeV1987]

How about the 4 rotor Wankel from the Le Mans winning Mazda 787B? At least you can't say it doesn't sound spectacular.    

 

51 - 57 seconds in... 

 

 

Edited by MikeV1987, 19 May 2015 - 21:39.

[Atreiu]

And don't even start about tractor pulling

 

4 Russian helicopter engines in a 4.5 tonne tractor. 6 Keith Black nitro burning engines in a tractor. 3 Packard Mustang engines in one machine.

 

Pics or not true.

[Atreiu]

It's a straight-6. Not that impressive. Only it's just 250cc in capacity and was mated to a Honda RC166 in the 1960s.

 

 

Have a listen to it.

 

 

Sweet revs.

[Amphicar]

Pics or not true.

Well here's a tractor with three Allison aero engines:

 

[ensign14]

 

Porthos from 1907.

[Jimisgod]

 

 

 

[BlinkyMcSquinty]

Smokey Yunick's sidecar racer.

 

 

STP turbine engine racer.

 

 

[Rasputin]

The four fuel-injected Chrysler Hemi V8s of the Summers brothers Goldenrod packed a total of 2400 Hp;

 

[midgrid]

The Fiat S76, built to break land-speed records in 1911, featured an engine with a displacement of over 28 litres, and was known as "The Beast of Turin":

 

 

Edited by midgrid, 20 May 2015 - 13:34.

[midgrid]

Lotus 56B gas turbine engine.

[chunder27]

Sorry chaps I dont know how to upload pics, but the f turbine tractor does exist, just type it into google or watch the tube, there are plenty of 3 turbone units around too.

[johnmhinds]

[Jackmancer]

Little sidestep:

The Bloodhound has the world's most insane fuel injection pump: a Cosworth F1 V8 engine.

 

[Rasputin]

Audi V8 Twin turbo DTM;

 

[windy1603]

Desperate Dan with 5 out of the 6 Keith Blacks Fitted

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=NFKqzvizem8

 

[BlinkyMcSquinty]

Gotta love the Morgan, so outrageously wonderful.

 

[Victor_RO]

Little sidestep:

The Bloodhound has the world's most insane fuel injection pump: a Cosworth F1 V8 engine.

 

Sadly that is no longer true, due to several technical issues they have gone from the CA2010 to a supercharged and modified 5-liter Jaguar V8.

[quaint]

Many engines may have been spectacular for their time. Unfortunately we had our most spectacular engine (irrespective of time) almost ten years ago...