A shameless image thread for the enginephiles

[xpensive]

A Volvo 164 with a Jaguar V12 engine!

[andylaurence]

Meh! 27 litre Rolls Royce Meteor in a Rover SD1...

[Tommy Cookers]

sprinkle a few turbochargers around and you have your 2000 bhp hypercar engine, otherwise only 900 (if derating etc cancelled)
I had one

[flynfrog]

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-videos/ ... =soc_fcbks

The beast of Turin Lives!

http://vimeo.com/113158655


OLd silent movie of it making a pass

[J.A.W.]

sprinkle a few turbochargers around and you have your 2000 bhp hypercar engine, otherwise only 900 (if derating etc cancelled)
I had one

& what manner of trans to handle the massive torque/ short rpm range T-C?
An Allison multi-speed auto?

Centurion tanks thusly powered but with awful manual gearboxes gave 'agricultural' - a bad name..

[1158]

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-videos/ ... =soc_fcbks

The beast of Turin Lives!

http://vimeo.com/113158655


OLd silent movie of it making a pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZtkw-hJODg

Love that they finally got this running! Everything about this engine is ridiculous!

Gigantic conrods? Check.


Gigantic pistons? Check.


Oversize Gudgeon/Wrist Pin? Check.


Amazing that this car was driven to 137 mph! Talk about having large stones!

Edit: In my reading about this marvelous beast I found that claimed horsepower was 300 at 1800RPM. I read someone who stated torque was around 2000 ft/lb but using the simple hp/torque relationship I found peak torque would be right about 900 ft/lb. Peak torque and peak hp occur around the same rpm. Of course with this engine being quite unusual I'm not sure if the standard formula would apply, though I can't see why it shouldn't.

Any guess about idle rpm? I was thinking maybe 200 rpm.

[Just_a_fan]

Meh! 27 litre Rolls Royce Meteor in a Rover SD1...

An F1 engineer friend of mine, who is now retired from F1, has two of these engines. He's very slowly putting one into a Phantom II chassis. If he ever gets it finished it will quite something.

Took the exhaust headers off one of the engines and he rigged up various drums for cooling, fuel etc. Ran it up in his back garden. By crikey it was loud!

But oh, the noise...

600bhp never sounded so good, not even the McLaren F1 which is probably the best sounding road car ever to my ears.

[xpensive]

Ii all began as an effort to challenge the Ford Coswort DFX with a home-gron 2.65 turbo V8 in 1984.





The engene ran indeed on the dyno, very well at that.



But due to a lack of investors, read Roger Penske, the project collapsed. Below an atmo-version though.

[FW17]

what is that small turbine in front of the engine for?

[Just_a_fan]

Water pump?

[countersteer]

Nice write up on the Callaway V-8.
http://www.enginelabs.com/engine-tech/e ... 00-engine/

[xpensive]

Nice write up on the Callaway V-8.
http://www.enginelabs.com/engine-tech/e ... 00-engine/

So you found the source, congratulations to you then.

[nokivasara]

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-videos/ ... =soc_fcbks

The beast of Turin Lives!

http://vimeo.com/113158655


OLd silent movie of it making a pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZtkw-hJODg

Love that they finally got this running! Everything about this engine is ridiculous!

Gigantic conrods? Check.
https://scontent-a-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... e=551C4D0A

Gigantic pistons? Check.
https://scontent-b-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... e=55168103

Oversize Gudgeon/Wrist Pin? Check.
https://scontent-b-atl.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... e=550AA86C

Amazing that this car was driven to 137 mph! Talk about having large stones!

Edit: In my reading about this marvelous beast I found that claimed horsepower was 300 at 1800RPM. I read someone who stated torque was around 2000 ft/lb but using the simple hp/torque relationship I found peak torque would be right about 900 ft/lb. Peak torque and peak hp occur around the same rpm. Of course with this engine being quite unusual I'm not sure if the standard formula would apply, though I can't see why it shouldn't.

Any guess about idle rpm? I was thinking maybe 200 rpm.

Amazing!! I nearly fell off my chair when the Beast fired up, it was like all hell broke loose, incredibly sinister sound

I had to register to this forum just because of this thread, I've read through it all and enjoyed every single page =D>

[strad]

I guess I'll never grow up..I want this for Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZY-7SR4UCI

[djos]

Growing up is overrated!

I'm shocked they didn't at least double chock those front wheels tho! I'd have tied the Damn thing down myself.