Can Anyone Identify This Engine??

I have always been amazed at the wealth of knowledge housed between the ears of the HAMB members as a whole. A series of threads by me may test that combined brain power over the next few days.....

Here is the first... What is this engine?

 

Just taking a shot in the dark, but I'm gonna guess Nash. The only reason I say that is because the 4th pic

 

Nope, definitely NOT a Henway. I'm thinking a ****fer or a Pyecost.

 

LOL.. I don't mind picking through the joke answers if i can get some real ones thrown in too!

 

Packard?

 

Possibly from a fire engine? I don't know, maybe!
KK

 

It's a Pierce Arrow for sure.

Here's an interesting article: http://www.pierce-arrow.org/features/feature12/index.php

 

It kinda looks like a Lycoming 8. Auburn used them as did a few others I think.

 

I definately agree on Piece arrow... Check this sight in the photos, one of the last pictures in the slideshow shows a good side shot: http://www.dealsonwheels.com/cars/pierce_arrow/other_pierce_arrow_models/1929/D7rx47ok

 

what's with the five different threads on what you found ? cheezzzzz....

put all the clues in one post.....kinda helps us out.....

 

Definately close... The lycoming looks like it has some differences with the heads, and afew other things: http://forums.aaca.org/attachments/f120/118172d1329337836-lycoming-8-06022012594.jpg

 

The car is a conglomeration of several cars.... It is very unusual for sure. I am trying to ID the components without getting off topic on the car itself. I promise I will expose the entire car once I ID the parts. But it is supposed to be a vintage land speed record car.

 

Seagrave?

 

It looks like the engine is a Pierce Arrow Straight 8 for sure. However this engine has a custom made 4 carb intake set up.....

 

who cares what it is? It absolutely was never used in traditional hotrods.

 

Whats a ****fer ?

 

you'd prefer another small block chevy thread?

 

Most definitely a Pierce Arrow, oil filter has been changed but here is what it looks like in a 1929 Pierce.

 

Neither were dead dogs, but I see threads about them on here.

 

looks like the makings to a speedster to me

 

The engine (and axle and wheels from your other topics) are Pierce Arrow. Do a google image search for 29, 30 and 31 Pierce Arrow. You'll surely find all that stuff. Try scammin around on www.aaca.com/forums too. They have a Pierce Arrow sub forum. Now show us the damn car already!!

 

Here we go again.

 

I will be pulling it out tomorrow and taking it straight to a car show in St Pete Beach at Bay Pines after being stored since 1988..... I will post pics of the extraction and car show appearance tomorrow evening.

 

"who cares what it is? It absolutely was never used in traditional hotrods. "

In 1932 the Pierce Arrow roadster in Chris Stapley's picture averaged 112.91 MPH for 24 hours on the Bonneville Salt Flats, officially timed by the AAA contest board. Are you saying that's not hot enough, or not traditional enough?

 

HA!! If you owned a Pierce Arrow in 1923 you were one of the HOTTESt of the hot rods at the time!!!!

You would die laughing if you saw a drag race between a '23 Pierce Arrow and a '23 Model T Ford!! LOL!!!!

 

pic number 4, there is a unit being driven off the back of the water pump, but not on the pic of the restored one...what is that unit? ..an oil pump? for some sort of self lube system?........ Meaning ch***is lubricator.

 

I was wondering the same thing. I have to examine it closer but I do not see it on any of the other PA engines I have been looking at online.