Coolest-looking car engine ever

[danthecapriman]

Your all totally 100% wrong btw...

This is art, and an audible masterpiece!

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Bollocks! I should have read the whole thread title should’nt I!

Still, I bet it could* be made to fit in a car!?

[Inspector Morose]

Possibly.

 

[danthecapriman]

Possibly.

 

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Looks good. Fits like a glove!

[RayMK]

Front wheel drive simplicity (literally!). 

[forddeliveryboy]

 

 

 

Just three of many

[Honey Badger]

and a few of its 4 wheeled uses

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rolls+royce+merlin+car&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiekfjxj9vcAhUNy6QKHZx0BFcQsAR6BAgBEAE&biw=1366&bih=673

 

I'll take you your 12 cylinders and raise you another 12

 

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/napier-sabre-iia-horizontally-opposed-24-engine

[forddeliveryboy]

 

 

[Christine]

Can am cars look so safe !!

 

[chaseracer]

Looks good. Fits like a glove!

 

[cort16]

Hemi fire power. Also great name

 

[martc]

How about the engine in the FIAT S76 (the 'Beast of Turin')? 24 litres, 300bhp, made in 1911?

 

 

 

Bugatti made some nice looking engines as well, here's a Type 35, just look how simple it looks - no ugly castings, everything in it's place and the finish on it -

 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

[spike60]

Chris Williams Bentley Napier. W12 24L 1917 Napier Sea Lion boat engine.This does the historic rounds of hillclimbs etc, I papped it at Harewood.

 

 

[forddeliveryboy]

 

Darracq

 

[Asimo]

Cool is hard to define , but easy to recognize. Probably.

 

If it's transverse it has to be inline:

 

And if in line a vee:

 

But back in the real world, air cool rules!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

 

This is one of my favourite engines, but admittedly it not the looker I thought it was in my mind's eye.

[Inspector Morose]

Cool is hard to define , but easy to recognize. Probably.

If it's transverse it has to be inline:

True

[yellowperil]

I'll take you your 12 cylinders and raise you another 12

 

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/napier-sabre-iia-horizontally-opposed-24-engine

I knew someone once, who had one of those in a barn.

 

I don't know how he got it, or what happened to it after he passed away.

[Junkman]

 

 

This thread can be well and truly closed now.

[vulgalour]

 

The incongruous nature of the Tucker's powerplant sitting at odds to its unusual styling is particularly appealing.

[MorrisItalSLX]

[castros_bro]

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

I am honestly torn..... 

I love these - just cracking.

 

 

but for cool points - I have to go radial......

 

 

 

preferred...

 

[martc]

Here's another spectacular Edwardian engine, what was it with those boys? What were they drinking? In this case it's aboard a Lorraine De Dietrich, 16.5 litres contained in 4 cylinders! A competitor to the 'Beast of Turin' above, driven by people with knackers bigger than mine.

 

 

 

 

And here's another superbly made engine - just look at it, the attention to detail, the finish, why can't it be like this today? It's a 6 cylinder, OHC, 7982cc 194 hp Hispano Suiza engine from 1928.

 

[flat4alfa]

The car is called the dawb6. A machine shop owner in Ireland fancied making his own car so he did. Apart from the glass, gauges and other small sundries, he made it all himself or by his machine shop. This includes that engine - a flat six air cooled motor mounted transversely fuelled by triple twin choke side drought Webbers. The drive to the (he built that too, naturally) gearbox was via a chain at the centre of the crank.

When it was finally completed, he drove it for a year or so then parked it up and moved onto his next project - a yacht.

It’s still in Ireland, now on display at the ulster folk and transport museum. I’ve been to see it and to this day, it is the most awe inspiring car I’ve ever seen.

 

Not only that

 

It made 136bhp. From 1.4 litres! That gives a specific output of 97bhp/litre! For comparison, the Aston Martin DB4 GT, which was the fastest car in the world when the DAWB was completed, only had 65hp/litre. No production car got close to the DAWB 6 in terms of specific output

 

Looked lush too.

 

[flat4alfa]

Bi-Turboed Maserati

 

It's the red that does it

 

[320touring]

To be honest, I'm at the point where any functioning engine that completes a journey = coolest looking engine

 

Currently I'm coveting the 1.6 in the Picarsole..

[flat4alfa]

Your all totally 100% wrong btw...

This is art, and an audible masterpiece!

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I can't see that in a car myself.  What am I saying, one of those mahoosive modern US pickups might actually be strong enough to hold a Baby Deltic up

 

  I could watch this all day

[flat4alfa]

How about the 1905-6 Adams-Farwells, with their 3 and 5-cylinder rotaries.  That is 'rotary' as in the externals too.

 

 

Mesmerising.  So it must be a contender?

[Inspector Morose]

Someone did put a third of that into a car once. I bring you a TS3 engined mini: