|
|---|
Showing posts with label racing engine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racing engine. Show all posts
Sunday, February 17, 2013
700 Hp, 199 cu in, AMC Rambler straight 6, 105 lbs of turbo boost, and all in a 1967 Indy 500 race car. Only Barney Navarro.
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 9:49 PM
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Heard of the Boss 302? Of course. The Boss 429? Probably. I doubt you've heard of the Boss 494. 10 were made, one for Mario Andretti, here's it's second life with just 777 hp at the flywheel
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 8:38 PM
Thursday, May 17, 2012
close up and thorough gallery of the Smith Master Valve Special, designed and built by Harry Lewis
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 9:37 PM
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Offenhauser engine, built by Meyer and Drake. A thing of beauty in design, power and performance. (I've read about 700-800 hp offy's)
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 6:29 PM
Monday, January 2, 2012
The Salt 2 Salt Studebaker set some records at Bonneville this year, with an interesting 182 cu in v8
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 8:29 PM
The trick of getting such a small displacement is using a tiny one year only block, and the crank from another model year to get the right numbers.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
JR Competition has a couple special offers for hot rodders and performance engine owners
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 7:45 PM
Friday, January 28, 2011
people wonder what the largest displacement factory car engine was, here's the biggest piston engine, and the 2nd n 3rd biggest that I've come across
0 comments Posted by Unknown at 9:02 PM
1910 Fiat S76, the "Beast of Turin", 28.4 liter engine that is about 1730 cubic inches, 4 times as big as my 426 cu in Max Wedge. Try and imagine 4 hemis, 3/4's a hemi, or 6 of the hemi cylinders per cylinder in this aircraft engined straight 6 cylinder. Yeah, that is huge, but made relatively little power or torque because engines weren't as understood and developed in the 1910's.An outrageous creation that debuted in the early 1910s, the Tipo (Type) S76 was built by the Fiat factory in Turin presumably to break the world's Land Speed Record, which then stood at 125.95 mph. The chassis was a flimsy 1907/08 Fiat production unit with a Tipo S76DA six-cylinder airship engine of 28.4 liters (1,730 cu. in.), which developed 300 hp at 1,900 rpm.
Standing about five feet high at the radiator cap, the frighteningly top-heavy car was referred to as The Beast of Turin. Except for a brief appearance in England at the Brooklands racecourse, where it was timed at about 90 mph, it never made an impact on any records and was returned to the continent to be lost during the confusion of World War I. http://www.airportjournals.com/Display.cfm?varID=0611015
The Beast of Turin’s engine cylinder's were so large, a man could stick his head in one. When it drove down the road, flames shot 10 feet out of the exhaust.
Count Louis Zborowski, a racer and racing patron, was incredibly wealthy and his stable included a 1914 GP Mercedes and a 1919 Ballot, and he raced a Bugatti at Indianapolis. He returned home with a new American Miller race car.Chitty I was created in 1921 after Zborowski obtained a war reparations Maybach aero engine from a Gotha bomber. The 23-liter (1,409 cu. in.) six had four overhead valves per cylinder. At a modest speed of 1,500 rpm, it put out 300 hp. The chassis was an old Mercedes that had been lengthened and topped by a primitive aerodynamic body. To show it was all in fun, the exhaust pipe ran the length of the body and culminated with a turned-up tip with conical shield.
1912 Mercedes with a 21.5 liter engine, only 4 cylinders and was already posted athttp://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/if-you-have-wondered-what-largest.html
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
LinkWithin
