odd ball engines!!!!!!!!

Not a car motor, but how about a 63 scout slant 4

 

Anyone running an Offy four banger? That be fun in a little roadster.

 

mmm...if i could afford one, this is what i would do...but in my TD...

 

I know wherer the castings are..........

 

you would wouldn't you

 

Gasfor, Notice the BUSYBEE was by Gladden of Glendale Ca.They were a WW2 company that had a good engine after the war and tried to find uses for them.They had an upright industrial engine that powered their most famous product, namely the Mustang scooter which showed Cushman eagles the way home until the Jap small motorcycle invasion.I have a Busy Bee like yours and have seen about 4 more at engine shows.The only one that I know what it was supplied on was a clearing machine(2 wheels on a frame with handlebars and a belt driven circle saw that could be horizontal at ground level or vertical as a cut -off saw).Well designed engine should be on a homebuilt scooter or repowered Cushman.

 

since there hasn't been much going on here, figured i would blow some brain cells...and it is on a model T block

 

Was that in Tilamook? I was there a few years back but only saw a regular RR Merlin

 

That's pretty awesome looking, but wtf?

How does that work? Is it using four valves per cylinder and the and the intakes and exhausts are side by side in stead of front to back? Seems like it makes it much more complex than necessary... But dammit, it is freaking be-you-tee-ful!

 

Look on the Miller-Offy webpage, they make new 270 blocks now.

 

http://www.6066gmcguy.org/

Here's a website that had some GMC v-12 info. He had one for sale a while back

3.5" stroke wasn't a good idea for trucks. My granddad ran a 478 V6 on his irrigation well for years.

Always though one of those would make an interesting rod engine--but skinny front tires would definatly be out!

 

This thread is a little old but I just had to post this pic of a Toyota hemi that I saw at the local World of Wheels. I is reputed to have come from a Toyota limo that they only have overseas. It sits real nice in the track T roadster!

 

Who can forget the cool rear engine blown flattie of Steve Grimes.

 

I love this thread. I had thought it would look cool to make a V8 using Harley Davidson Jugs and heads and a custom block.

I think it would be asthetically pleasing in a rod.

 

Here is my 85hp '36 REO. Purrs like a kitten.

 

hmm...I have a 55 Studebaker 224 V8 with Edmunds 2x2, 3 on the tree with overdrive in my 31 Plymouth.

i have the original numbers matching Super Wildcat Nailhead in my 64 Wildcat Sport Coupe. Yeah, thats the 365hp 425 Nailhead with factory 2x4 and finned valve covers.
Got a 56 365 Caddy sittin in the shop that will eventually reside in what used to be one of Rocky's T coupes

Got a 59 Desoto 325hp 383

How about a Subaru flat-four? hehehe

Oh, yeah...got 10 or so Nailheads of assorted years and sizes.

Just got a new puter and haven't transferred all my pics, so I'll have to add pics to the post later

 

How oddball do you want??

 

1936-1948. Some speed equipment was mfd back in the '40s but now extremely rare. I believe Edmunds did heads & manifolds (He did stuff for a lot of oddballs & orphans that other mfrs wouldn't bother with.)

 

thanks Dale...I'll take that as a compliment. I went with the S2D engine just so I could listen to people call it an oddball and an orphan. hehehe

Snapped a pic of the 55 224, dust and all. Intake is an Edmunds that was originally for a Caddy. I'm using Stromberg WW carbs from 56 Buicks. The front one is the secondary with the choke removed, Idle circuit plugged, and the starter switch milled off. The rear carb in the picture is not the one that goes on it. The primary is apart and cleaned, ready to pt back together. I'll use the starter switch like it was orignally used on the Buick.

Valve covers were orignally made for a Rocket. Air cleaners are O'Brien Truckers Edmunds oil bath repops. Not a strip burner, just a loud cruiser with those open lake pipes

 

I know what it is, and I can guarantee Cosmo knows too. What I can't figure out is what that SU carb is doing in there? Is the thing really so tuneable that it works well there?

 

well, actually...it is a stagger valve front conversion for a model T

 

I'd love to see a '20s-style racer built around the Liberty aircraft engine.

Either that or I'd like to own a WWI British CMB with retrofit Liberties.

 

Air cooled jugs... 180deg opposed...

some kinda airplane or rotary wing mill???

kool as all hell either way

 

loogy,love the look of that blown Volvo,here.s a pic of the blown Ford 4 banger in my son,s rod.It,s been punched out to 1700cc and runs 10lbs of boost.

 

I could stick any old SU on any engine you care to name and be sure that it will fire up and idle - getting it to run well troughout the rev range is the issue.

This conversion is made by Blackjack cars and works really well. It's in my trike;









See the websites

http://www.oakes.co.uk
www.blackjackzero.com/ -

 

cool

 

Well now that we know what it is, explain how it works... please!

 

May be in here already but didn't cadillac have a V16? Was it flathead? What about V12s?

 

well, honestly i don't rightly remember. But if i recall correctly the intakes and the exhausts valves were just swapped from side to side, and i have no clue if it did any good at all, other than look really bitching!!!

 

How about The 1931 Oakland v-8 in 1932 it became the Pontiac V-8 the only flathead V-8 pontiac ever had.