what else can you do with an automobile engine?

sorry if these links have been posted before.

hemi powered items

454 powered snow blower

looked like some interesting stuff to me. hope you agree.

 

My friend used to work for an oceanographic survey company. They used engine blocks for sea anchors.

 

272 Y block. Most of the cam is still stuck in there. It does better in the garden than it did in the car

 

The original Irwindale Dragstrip in Cali had a 392 Hemi block welded to a pole,& cemented into the ground.

It was right in front of one of the concession stands,& all the condiments were in stainless buckets,in all 8 cyls.
Wished I had taken a picture of that.

 

i think it was the folks the owned the strip in keokuk iowa , had a hemi motor for a mailbox.. it was just across the road from the strip anyway.. always wanted to have it when i was a kid...

 

If I ever get rich (which means I'll have more time than I do now, and the $$ to do stupid **** like this) I'm gonna take the perfectly good but underpowered and undersized 264-inch Nailhead I have and build an electric generator with it.

Frame with a radiator and early grille shell, I-beam axle and cool early style wheels will make up the trailer (grille pointed backwards when the thing is being towed). Dress up the Nailhead with a 3x2 intake and some nice valve covers, generator, the whole works. Behind the engine will be a vintage cowl, mounting the gauges and controls. A moon tank below that. Then, at the end of the bellhousing will be an agricultural PTO electric generator.

I don't know what I'll use it for, but it'll be the coolest generator in the neighborhood.
-Brad

 

how about a table?

 

Those tables are very cool, I hear some make great boat anchors.....

 

O.K. it's not an engine, but it put a junk 904 case to good use.

 

About 4 old farts in NC told me about a Straight 8 Buick running a sawmill.

 

I've seen irrigation pumps made from car engines. I've used my Jeep and a strap around the rear tire as a rope tow/ski lift.

 

Link to V8 chain saw video

check this out its bad ***

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/154

man I love that thing.


bret

 

that chainsaw is bad***. impractical, unsafe, but just too cool.

 

That's ****in' awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thats the first thing I thought of when I saw this post.

Very nice, Like a samurai sword thru ****er.

 

Air compressor of course.Do a search for Gordon Smith of Bowling Green, Ky. They made a practical kit to convert your Ford model A, which was inexpensive and reliable to a portable self powered air compressor.Special head and add a unloader and receiver-- used rad/grille/hood and fuel tank as original.Thousands were made and the company I think is still in buisness but now more sophisticated.
Schramm of Pennsylvania used a variety of engines for the same purpose but by the late 40's they had a beauty made from a Ford 85 HP v8--later engines were I-H 6 cyl gas,6 cyl diesel, and v8 Cat like the 3208.

I have seen flathead Chrysler 8, Leroi v8,Hercules flathead 6, and Ford 351W used for this.
The 351W conversion was by Grimmersmitt and was used a lot on tire service trucks.
You have to witness the running of these "half engines" to believe how smooth they run.
I always wanted to build one from a VW opposed 4.Light, portable, compact, and reliable but wouldn't a Corvair be cl***y or maybe a run out Lycoming aircraft or it's military stationary brother.

Just dreamin'

 

mill/lathe
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/

 

I went to school at Parks College in Cahokia, IL. In the engine run area there was a 28V GPU trailer that used a Chrysler Industrial 354 hemi for power.

I always wanted to back a truck up to it and pull it away. How cool would it be to have Chrysler Industrial script valve covers?