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[manchild]

oh and P.S: 44.5litres? You're kidding...right?!

No he isn't.

General characteristics

* Type: 12-cylinder liquid-cooled supercharged inverted Vee aircraft piston engine
* Bore: 162 mm (6.38 in)
* Stroke: 180 mm (7.09 in)
* Displacement: 44.5 L (2,715 in³)
* Length: 2610.5 mm (102.8 in)
* Diameter: 830 mm (32.7 in)
* Dry weight: 920 kg (2,030 lb)

The engine ran off a mixture of methyl alcohol (63%), benzene (16%), ethanol (12%), acetone (4.4%), nitrobenzolo (2.2%), avgas (2%), and ether (0.4%) with MW (methanol-water) injection for charge cooling and boost pressure. 3,000 hp enough, it was believed, to propel the aerodynamic three-axle T80 up to 750 km/h on the Dessau autobahn in January 1940 during RekordWoche (Record/Speed Week). But due to the outbreak of the war in September 1939, the T80 (nicknamed Schwarz Vogel/Black Bird) never raced. The DB 603 engine was removed from the vehicle for use in fighter aircraft.

http://greyfalcon.us/Mercedes%20T80.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler-Benz_DB_603











http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_T80

[Belatti]

This is the link from where I posted the picture.
http://www.motorauthority.com/cars/merc ... ot-a-typo/

It seems that while the Nazi’s were quite a busy lot during their reign, they weren’t too busy to try and break some world speed records. They maneged to build the sinister looking beast below - the 1939 Mercedes-Benz T-80 Weltrekordwagen. The ‘car’ features the largest engine that Mercedes had ever been responsible for at the time – a 44.5 litre V12 that develops three thousand horsepower and originally designed to fit in an aircraft.

The T-80 was built to travel at 750km/h, however it was never given the chance to attempt this blistering speed record, and it was only by sheer luck that it managed to survive the Second World War as it sat in Austria. It now sits in the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. While it has been fully restored, Mercedes Benz has not officially attempted to see just how fast it can go and it seems unlikely that we ever will know. While it isn’t a beautiful car per se, it is extremely striking, and looks almost like a Nazi Batmobile – its just a shame that no one will be able to hear that 44.5 litre V12 starting up again.

The above photo was taken by a visitor to the new Mercedes museum. You can find more of his photos in this thread on the GM Insider Forums. http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/show ... hp?t=35257

This nice "blast from the past" page has got a lot of curious things like a Lamborghini motorbike!