odd ball engines!!!!!!!!

this is one of my favorites

 

Pretty cool motor.
Here's an amazing link on it and it's V-12 and mega-motor cousins...
http://www.6066gmcguy.org/GMCplaid.htm

Believe it or not, this plaid paint was stock for a short time:



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This is one of my favorites... a Falconer V12. Amazingly beautiful!! If someone has the cash for one of these bad boys ~$50k, I have the roadster already designed....

 

i want a falconer...real bad...but i dont wanna spend 50k...

 

My continental 1790 ci air-cooled V-12

It's going in my hot rod firetruck, when life settles down.

 

Here's a similar engine for a tenth the money. If you're serious this is a deal.
http://www.racingjunk.com/exec/ca/view/437892/V12-Engine-for-Street-Rod-Hot-Rod-Custom-Ca.html

 

Good information. I'd heard bits and pieces of the half-a-Ford-460 story, but wasn't able to find anything on it until you gave its full name. Might be cool in a hot rod.

 

37 Oldsmobile 6, not complete, yet.

 

Question: Does anybody have pictures of a '51 Pontiac straight 8? Did Pontiac make a straight 8 then? Flathead or overhead?
The first car I remember was a '51 Pontiac two-door sedan. I remember my Dad saying it had a really smooth, strong running straignt 8. I don't ever remember seeing the engine. I did run the battery down once playing in the car. I kept pushing the starter button without the key being turned on. The engine would turn over but wouldn't start. Mom was sure mad.

I'm looking for a picture I have of a real odd-ball engine. It an aircraft engine but its real ODD-BALL. Some of you have probably heard of it, a Rhone rotary. It's French so you can understand the odd-ball. No, its not anything like a Wankel/Mazda rotary. Its a 5 cylinder, air-cooled, piston engine, radial layout with a fixed crankshaft. The crankcase and cylinders rotate around the crankshaft. It has one helleva rotating mass. It was a bitch to turn to the left, but real easy to turn right. They attached the propeller to the engine case. There's no way you could use one in a car.

Phil, aka AZAV8

 

Phil

i have seen that rotory 5 jug airplane engine at either an air show or maybe one of the years at the EAA flyin at oshcosh... i know the pic i have of it isnt digital so finding the pic i have is going to take some time of searching boxes of prints

 

Did someone say Buick Straight-8?

Here's a pic I posted earlier from the Sydney Hot Rod Show but I thought it would be good here.

Buick Fireball 8 with home made intake for four SUs and home made exhausts with linkage operated cut-out valves. Very cool...



Then of course there's my Rambler 290. (Couldn't resist)

 

The GMC. Cleaned up a bit for a recent magazine photo shoot.

 

Maybe not traditional, definately not usable in a car, but oddball... hell yeah! The Napier Deltic Engine, it doesn't get any stranger than this. I wish I had one outside my garage.

 

1942 Ford six. Marine converted from new. Has done 300 hours in a boat and then removed in 1945. Has been started once since then. Complete with reduction box. In mint condition. Oil is like new. Dunno what we are going to do with it.

 

The oddest ball of them all: a stock, unmodified Chevy small block!

 

seeing as how the engines posted here are WAY outside the box. . .

how about a maytag single jug ringer washer motor?

they aint bad looking for a vintage motor, but they do have a little of the "i can crawl faster" factor at 3/4bhp, but they'd look cool in a homebuilt beach cruiser or a teeny scooter project i think.

 

Yup - its a mercruser. I think it was 140hp stock. It is literally half a 460...

My engine builder used to run one in the 4cyl class street stocks in a pinto. 230ci 4 banger with a SCJ head!

 

That's it, you win. That has to be the rarest of the rare.

 

they started at 170 hp and went up to 190 hp in stock form.cool engines,i ran 186mph with one at b-ville in 2003 Randy

 

E400, 361 cu in FE that was in Edsels. The 400 comes from the 400 ft-lbs torque it puts out. (I changed the color because the original yellow is lame and pastel looking) Its a work in progress.

 

That E400 Edsel engine would be rockin' in a roadster with a tele-touch column in it. I dig.

 

HOLY.....how many pistons are in that thing?

 

sold this a while back 43 fairchild pt-19 ranger motor, often used in sprint cars

 

This'd be cool for a "brass" era hot rod. The Curtis OX-5 V8 aircraft engine. A true hot rod engine in it's day.

 

I've thought about that and someday I would hope to do a fenderless model A or T (depending on what is available to me) with the Edsel E400 or even E475 (410 cu in) and make a grill shell with the Edsel horse collar and call it . . . . MODEL E

 

aussi 265ci MOPAR inline six... from an E49 Charger. 320bhp (donno bout that but...FWIW)

 

I'll bite... but you've seen it before-

My 230 Plymouth flathead six with all the goodies. I've put 1500 miles on it to date as my daily driver.

Pete

 

and to boot its a hemi,known as the big block killer and also used in the aussie "valiant charger"

 

Alright, already! Can't believe nobody's posted the Crosley CoBra (Copper Brazed) sheet metal engine. The CoBra block weighs 14.8 lbs. The engine Powell Crosley is holding in the photo weighed 58 lbs. Complete with all accessories including flywheel it still only weighs 133 lbs. Pretty cool, huh?

Gimme a 10 sec. head start--I'll kick your ass!

P.S. There's a Crosley engine for sale on the classifieds here now, but hooked to a generator -- don't have a cord long enough for my project.

 

wow... i forgot all abuot those... "Taylor tin motor" one of my great uncles had one, altho i remember his was a boat mill.