NZR: V12 Chevy (not just any V12)
I don't think this is a repost.
I love the P-51 Mustang but HOLY $HIT! I was just at he Reno air races last weekend and I couldn't imagine opening this Bel Air up. I would think that it you hit the throttle too fast this thing would flip. Leno's tank car has nothing on this.
The racers at the air races this year had a new head design that allowed them to run at 50 psi making 3500 HP. At full clip they sound insane. The P-51s owned the Sea Fury's this time around.
No it wasn't at the air races, but being around Rolls Royce Merlins all weekend I can't even comprehend putting one in a car.
Piper — Okay. Sorry I misunderstood. Yeah, those Merlins are pretty mind-boggling to behold. when I was little my father had a friend of a friend who raced a P-51 so we'd often go watch them race around the pylons in Lancaster. Perhaps even more impressive than the raw power was watching the engine seize in one of the plane and this guy dead-stick land the plane right in front of us with no power — and no damage to the plane.
YORGO — that little V-12 is Amazing! Wow, what a cool project. Wonder what kind of numbers it makes. I think I want one for my chainsaw! LOL
Piper5177 Wrote:
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> No it wasn't at the air races, but being around
> Rolls Royce Merlins all weekend I can't even
> comprehend putting one in a car.
Why do you say this? Yeah they weigh a million pound but hey if you had one of these lovely engines laying around what would you do with it? I mean as an auto enthusiast you cant really build a plane so you do the next best thing...a car!
A car like that depresses me any place but at the flats. If the guy doesn't bring it there and actually use the power it's making....
"What's the point?"
It would be awesome to see this thing on the flats. After putting all that work into it, it would be kinda pointless just to look at it. I guess that's the whole show car mentality though.
"After putting all that work into it, it would be kinda pointless just to look at it."
More than that: They have taken a mill that goes 400+ mph and saddled it in something that maybe will go....what? 60, 100, hell even 200 mph? Who knows how fast it will go.
Thing is, unless they test it, it's like putting a Blown Hemi on a Lawnmower for a guy who has astroturf for a yard. Doesn't do anything, and doesn't improve any characteristics of the component pieces.
In fact, it severely handicaps the respective pieces...which really is sad.
From good components should come good creations. This I see as nothing more than a 'can we make it fit' engineering exercise. They play it up as some monumental tasking, but really it's a basic engine swap.
I have more respect for the guy who put the Helicopter Turbine in the 280ZX....at least he drives it at top speed. And it probably goes as fast or nearly as fast as the helo it came from in the first place.
Malcolm Campbell ran aircraft engines at Bonneville, and many others have done so...including the Merlin Engine. This swap is nothing new...it's just promoted as something spectacular.
Well, my vote goes to the guys that did this in the 50's and 60's and then actually TESTED their creation's top speed before retiring it 'to look at'...
Building it 'to look at from the start'---that's called Masturbation. Lotta activity, but no tangible result but something to look at and clean up aftgerwards.
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
— Ian Malcolm, 'Jurassic Park'
Y0RGO Wrote:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mutb7KgA9NM
> http://www.wawu.eu/index.php?lang=en
Ohh, I wonder if that is a 4 stroke or a 2 cycle. Sounds like a 2 cycle nitro RC car. Average RC nitro engine is 2.6 to 3 hp.. times 12.. 31.2 to 36 hp. I want to put that in my HPI Super Nitro RS4.
You had best come out of your dream world. That tiny V-12 has intake and exhaust valves. Those are the things under the 24 rocker arms ( no, not the pushrods). It sounds like a very small Ferrari V-12, not like a 2 stroke engine at all. You must have fallen asleep and dreamed all this. LOL.
Joe
From the video:
"It took a five years full time a fabricator to build this frame."
Seriously? Five man-years for a steel chassis? Why? There must be more to that story. Maybe they did several versions or something.
Yeah big whoopee do. Haven't they used Allison and Merlin engines in those tractor pull machines for years. At least the tractors are using the engine. Might as well have put the Merlin in an old tank instead of butchering a 55 Chevy
That little v-12 is awesome.
Yeah, that is true as well about those tractor pulls.
But subliminal search messages hidden in Chinese Proverbs are sure to get you pilloried here if you came right out and said it, huh?
LOL
Are you saying this car was at the air races? It's been built for a few years now but as far as I know has not been to the States. I'd love to see it in person as well.