airplane motor in a hot rod. hop up oct 51

any body got a scan of the 26 t on 32 rails w/ fairchild pt19 ranger motor out of oct. 1951 hop up. its in the hop up frist isues book. or any other rods w/ that motor. cus i got that motor.

 

Damn, get that thing from out behind da BBQ, put it on a stand and give us a better picture of it!

 

the hop piece has good pics. any body got it?

 

Its been a long time since I saw one in a sprint car but to the best of my memory the engine was mounted upside down and backwards. Very fast and loud and over 400 cubic inches. Good Luck I will try to find some refrences to help you out.

 

Yep, I saw a Ranger-powered sprint car running at an old timers dirt track event in MN around 1990.

 

bttt

 

Type:6 cylinder in-line air-cooled
Displacement:441 cubic inches
Maximum RPM:2,450
Maximum horsepower:200
Weight:376 pounds


http://www.bcam.net/engines/ranger.htm

 

"The L-440 air-cooled, six-cylinder, inverted, in-line engine was manufactured by the Ranger Aircraft Engine Division of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. Built in several versions ranging from 175 hp. to 200 hp., L-440 series engines were used to power the more than 6,000 Fairchild PT-19 and PT-26 trainers built during WW II."

 

Seems to me I remember Art Arfons having a Ranger powered Green Monster(#5 maybe?)back in the late 50's.I'll have to look.

 

this one is a 1943, it was intened to go in a draggster like the one in hop up.

 

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't an air-cooled engine such as this have overheating problems in a car?

With a whirring propeller or just the flight airspeed providing airflow the aircraft application will stay cool.

But what about in a car sitting in traffic or perhaps not running quite fast enough on an open highway?

In a race car for short-duration use there wouldn't be any big problems.

----- Bart -----

 

I would love to built a car around an engine like that!

 

GTO, its only 200 Horse...
A Porsche fan with some ducting would cool it.

 

Here's a Ranger-powered vintage sprint car owned by Mr. Cunningham from Des Moines. Photo was taken at Arlington, MN IMCA Oldtimer's meet.

 

There's a guy in Carlisle PA that has (had?) one of these in a roundy-round upright midget. Maybe someone from the So What crew knows him. He lives just to the west of the fairgrounds and builds exhausts for guys restoring Offy powered Indy cars. He also has (had?) a metalflake green '35 Ford wrecker called the Happy Hooker. Very active in the Maple Grove racing museum. That's about all the hints I can remember.

In case you're wondering how I know, I broke a leaf spring on my truck at the first GoogGuys meet at Carslile (on the way the NSRA SRN at Columbus) and I broke down at the end of his street. We're sitting there scratching our heads when this guys drives up and asks us if we need any help. Real nice guy.

Dennis

 

This one would be wild in a Car......

http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/engines/eng3.htm

 

If anybody wants to built a Green Monster clone, or build a big front engine roadster to race Jay Leno with...
There is a rebuilt Allison on Ebay right now with no bids on it.
I'm only telling you guys this because I dont have the 15 grand to go buy it...

 

[ QUOTE ]
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't an air-cooled engine such as this have overheating problems in a car?

With a whirring propeller or just the flight airspeed providing airflow the aircraft application will stay cool.

But what about in a car sitting in traffic or perhaps not running quite fast enough on an open highway?

In a race car for short-duration use there wouldn't be any big problems.

----- Bart -----

[/ QUOTE ] sure, good, right. i did'nt say i was building one. just gettin info. engine anyone?

 

GTO check out the sprint car photo. This combo was use in a number of sprint cars and they ran a lot of 100 mile races. A friend told me that they never ran hot.

 

zgears I sent you a PM with a contact who restored a sprint car and can help out with info

 

There's a pic of that car in one of those Hot Rod Cars style annuals that Mechanics Illustrated (or their publisher...it's the same size/format) put out in the early 50's. If I can dig it out tmrw., I'll post a picture.

 

How about Rod Hadfields Merlin V12 in his 55 stovebolt.

http://www.rodshop.com.au/project.htm

 

Dean Batchelor's book "The American Hot Rod" has some pix of it, as does the Hot Rod first 12 issues book. They aren't that great in the '12 issues book, but they do talk about it somewhere!

Jay

 

How the heck would you hook a tranny up to it??

 

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How the heck would you hook a tranny up to it??

[/ QUOTE ] custom addapeter, to a 32 top loader in hop up.

 

hop up had a cutaway. i need to finsh my car, so im not building one. i'd like to see some else build it.

 

I've seen that #22 car that SJ posted run many times at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds dirt track in Davenport, Iowa, in the late 80's & early/mid 90's. Keeps up with all the other antique sprinters just fine.

BTW; if you're ever passing through Davenport, stop at the Iowa Machine Shed to eat (yeah, it's a restaurant). The food is really good, there's LOTS of it, and they have a lot of antique machinery and other mechanical "things" to look at.

 

Here are the pics reproduced without permission .... some of the detail is lost when uploading to StarPhoto. If you have a high speed 'net hookup I could email the originals (nice and big!) which are quite legible (~1.6Mb)

ana 1


ana 2 cutaway ...



... cool idea for a powerplant

later,
papa al

 

rad, thanks laverda.