I always wondered about those things. How'd they link up the engines? I know that Roth used two trannies linked to two rear ends (banjo?) with a common center section. Tractor pullers have run multi engines for years, so Maybe a HAMBer knows more about this. T.V. Tommy rules!
Wait for a few hours. I just a lacky at school, so I can ******** between cl***es. Some of these cats have, um ,jobs.
I'm just suprised so many people responded to the slot mag thread and not this one. Also not everyone sits in front of a computer all day at work like I do! I'll have to kick it back up after 5 P.M. P.S. Nice to see a young guy like you on here instead of ridin' around in a "Tuner" riceburner.
Thanks, how about some more "LO-Tech" street engine-type stuff, not so much radical, Top Fuel professional drag racing.
Some people get tired of "show me pics of..." that's what google is for. I'm gonna go check out the slot mag thread. Sounds COOL.
I hear ya, but Google is so vague, and here people seem to share similar tastes and have cool stuff at their fingertips, plus like to show off anything they may have a personal intrest in.
Here are some I can think of. ( might post some more pics later, if I can find them.) The Famous old Grand Prix BiMotore Alfa Romeo's ( There even was one they tested that had the Driver behind the Rear Axle, slingshot style...) There was a twin Engined Porsche powered Special in the '50s (***eol??) The Twinny Mini's ( Pic ) There was an early Saab that had two 3Cyl 2stroke Engines driving the Front Wheels I found this pic of a twin Engined Hillclimb Racer with 2 Renault CV4 Engines in it. ( Pic ) The Burkland Streamliner. (Pic ) The VW Bug that was built by the Fittipaldi Brothers. It had two flat4's mated end to end under a light fibergl*** Body, and it was fast enough to dice with Lola's... (Pics )
Actually I got a set up like this one on my drawing board right now. Without giveing all the particulars the mills are linked together with a tripple row chain, then the p*** mill has a flywheel/clutch setup behind it and the ****** goes in the p*** seat. I don't recall exactly as I was pretty young when i was up close enough to find out but if I recall TV Tommy's 4 mill car was 4WD. The engines were coupled snout to tail on the cranks, two drove the rear and two drove the front. It had an in and out box I think. I do know that it left the line on two motors and then the other tow fired by rolling 'em off. That is if someone didn't forget to turn the fuel on.
The saab was called the monster or something like that, Erik Carlson was to use it for record breaking, but i think it just broke... How could you forget the Citroen 2cv Sahara ... (one engine up front and one in the trunk with 2 transmissions and 2 shift levers linked to a common one in the drivers compartment.) website for crazy twin engine stuff: http://lehrer.freepage.de/wibmer/sahara.html
See, I told ya the count would be up. I don't think that there's alot of multi engined cars on the street, hence the drag pics. I might be wrong, but I think Iread that that that car has only one of it's engines actualy hooked up. Oh, and I dig anything with wheels or wings, including imports. I'm just not an ***hat that talks about it on a Hotrod/custom forum. (I do seem to jump all over aviation minded threads, though)
I believe that i read somewhere that the first car only had one mill driveing it also. I think it was or is a budget build with stuff found on the ba*****t of garage of an old racer. Its nice to think that someday it will be motateing on both mills even if it never sees the street.
Bustle Bomb was always my favorite. and Tom McMullins little sedan with twin small blocks (283 & 265) with the five carbs (2 fours and 3 two's) that he ran on the street was awesum and I've never seen a photograph in print last time I saw it on the road someone in Temple City had it
That's what I'm talkin' about, old parts made to work and look cool at the same time in somebody's garage, not necessarilly with a lot of $$$
I see what you mean. I'm hoping some former tractor pullers chime in here. Wouldn't it be cool to have two engine sitting sidways in your coupe?
A lot of $$$ is a realative matter. Today I'm about 300 away from owning the perfect mill for a period project I'd like to throw together, it might as well be a million. But tomorrow it could be chicken scratch. I've never built one that I considered cheap, but I've always built 'em on a budget. I do enjoy building 'em though
My dad and I have been wanting to build a twin 6 cylinder front engine rail using two 270 gmc six bangers side by side and doing so by meshing the fly wheels. He talks of one that he used to see at the strip years ago that was similar.
Ivo's multi-engine cars, as well as the earlier single-engine dragster were designed and built by Kent Fuller. Fuller is usually credited with the ch***is but his contribution was far greater than ch***is alone. In the two-motor car, Fuller reversed the rotation on the left engine and connected the motors together with meshed gears, without an idler between them. Power was taken off the back of the right motor which rotated normally. The car was both quick and fast and was amazingly well mannered, due in large part to the counter-rotating motors and a near-absence of torque bias. In the four-motor car, Fuller opted to simply turn the two left motors around, connect them end to end, and drive through a QC front axle fitted with 4WD steering knuckles. The right pair, also connected end to end, rotated normally and drove through a QC rear axle. Both the engineering and the build quality of these cars are outstanding. Fuller was as crafty a machinist and fabricator as he was a designer. You can see just how really good he was with examples such as the Bentley H-16 cabriolet he built for Gary Wales in the '80s. Fuller constructed this big phantom Bentley road burner from a collection of R-R and Bentley hardware and sheet metal, creating many new pieces in the process. To build the H-16 motor, Fuller began with a pair of R-R/Bentley straight eights, turned one of them arround so the exhaust manifolds were placed on the outsides with the intake manifolds in the middle. The engines both rotate normally, but with the one turned backwards they are counter-rotating and meshed with gears front and rear. Adjusters on the mounting plates permit precise gear lash adjustment. Power is taken from the rear of the left motor which is oriented as it was originally. As big and heavy as a 1-T pickup truck, this monster flies! Mike
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