Showing posts with label Engines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Engines. Show all posts

Friday, 28 January 2011

people wonder what the largest displacement factory car engine was, here's the biggest piston engine, and the 2nd n 3rd biggest that I've come across

1910 Fiat S76, the "Beast of Turin", 28.4 liter engine that is about 1730 cubic inches, 4 times as big as my 426 cu in Max Wedge. Try and imagine 4 hemis, 3/4's a hemi, or 6 of the hemi cylinders per cylinder in this aircraft engined straight 6 cylinder. Yeah, that is huge, but made relatively little power or torque because engines weren't as understood and developed in the 1910's.An outrageous

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

24 butterflies, 8 blowers, and makes 3400 hp worth of Nitrous powered grin... Mike Harrah's Detroit Diesel, does it make you feel a bit awed?

180 photo gallery of the intake and engine going together here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/learaviator/sets/72157623774941005learned about it on http://www.autoblog.hu/videok/video_24_hengeres_dizelmotor.html not much info on the www yet, but I did find that the guy is a millionaire real estate developer, and owns the biggest of the Blastolene cars (can't recall the name, it's the one with the

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Sweet Little Benelli With Engine Pics

A true work of art but it's engines like this that make me glad I'm into 2-strokes. LOL.


Sweet Little Benelli With Engine Pics

A true work of art but it's engines like this that make me glad I'm into 2-strokes. LOL.


Thursday, 17 June 2010

Ducati Engine PrOn...

Sigh... Desmoquattro to the left and Testastretta to the rear. 

Ducati Engine PrOn...

Sigh... Desmoquattro to the left and Testastretta to the rear.