History CWC Engine

Found this engine at an Acme (Wise) scrap yard in Roswell, New Mexico. Thought some of you would know the application or what company it was made for. What do you think?

https://youtube.com/shorts/u_X93gtz0fI?si=FV_SZy9OKzz-ZbjQ

 

CWC will probably be the foundry that cast the block rather than engine manufacturer I think it’s a Continental https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Motors_Company

 

Do they have the space ship that crashed out there in 47? I’m asking for a friend.

 

Museums with newspaper articles, fragments of rocks and metal. Supposedly the crash site was moved several years ago. Tourism?

 

A spaceship powered by a flathead 6? I think we have discovered what Captain Kirk's Warpdrive really was!

 

Scotty was a genius! Flathead powered warp speed ain't easy!

 

Maybe the flux capacitor has been around longer than we thought.

 

neat, I can't find anything like it.

The top mounted distributor was used on several flathead six engines, but none of them have it mounted outboard of the valves like this one.

The timing cover extending out to the generator is similar to a Model T, and other early engines, so it might be pretty old.

 

This is a 1930 Dodge six that I think were made by Continental, the architecture is very similar but not exactly the same that’s why I thought it was a Continental engine

 

CWC Textron is a foundry in Muskegon Michigan. Before the Textron days it was Campbell Wyant Cannon. My family is from Muskegon, CWC was casting engine blocks back when my 90 year old dad was a kid.

 

That one's close enough that I'd call it a match. Good work.

 

Coincidentally, the original Continental motors factory was also in Muskegon, before moving to Detroit.

 

It’s the intake/exhaust relationship that’s off though. That’d be a different block.

 

Yeah, but from the same manufacturer.

I was looking into continentals earlier, a guy on the AACA forum said he had been making a list of different Cont engines based on applications for parts he found in parts catalogs, and his list was like 20 pages long. Of engine models. Crazy.

 

I guess it’s like Cummins or Detroit Diesel or Rolls Royce or Volvo, there’s so many vehicles that use their engines that you don’t even realise they’re out there.

 

Looks very similar to the one they dragged over to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio,

 

Continental built 100s of varieties of engines ...

 

Does the 9-20-28 look like a date code? I've seen some that turned out to be casting numbers or shift codes. The link on Contenntal engines looked right but the variations didn't exactly match this one.

Just a thought, Duesenberg's were made in 1928 but I thought the carburetor would be different or maybe multiple.

 

Where did you get Duesenberg? They never made a six or a flathead. If the '28' is a date code, at that point their engines were made by Lycoming.

 

A man told me it looked like a B427.