www.mofoco.com Went to their website today and they do sell an air cooled racing style cylinder head that they manufacture, looks like a nice piece. nice video of the shop
Imagine driving this at high speed - tube frame, bald skinny tyres and very little in the way of brakes. One of these was the first car to 100 mph - officially.
This reminded me of a Bristol Hercules: WWII sleeve-valve radial. In this pic, the cylinders are removed and only the valves are visible.
Those look like Burt-McCollum single sleeve valves: more common in aircraft engines than Knight double sleeve valves, and considerably more effective.
The four cylinder versions of this rattled so bad I would think you’d have no fillings if you was too near this!
GREAT THREAD! I haven't had the time to look through all the pages yet, so I hope my posts aren't repeats. The McGee top fuel 4 cam motor! Actually was competitive for a short time in the McGee T/F car, an Australian design, it was flogged by none other than Dale Armstrong for Kenny Bernstein. Never really ran like everyone thought it would. As a sidebar, it was the reason 4 cam OHC motors were T/F legal in NHRA for years, it was not banned, already running so NHRA allowed it. Ain't legal now. http://mcgeecams.com/history.html
Not so much an unusual engine because there are lots of them about - just the complex timing chain set up of a VW/Audi V8.
This one is a little heavy for early cars, but it's a piston engine! Makes plenty of HP and a whole bunch of torque though! This is a real engine, headed for a cargo ship. The Emma Maersks Wartsila-Sulzer Super Engine Another ship engine.
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