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barely adequate for yer needs, right?

Might make those 10-ton hauls a little easier up the grades

Yeah, those Falconer racing engines are based on Chevy engines, primarily used in pylon aitcraft racing and in boats as an alternative to heavy and expensive dedicated V-12 aircraft engines. Here's a link to the site, don't all line up at once to buy one Falconer

Mechainiac, maybe you could just mount another stovebolt next to your existing one and get the same effect...

Don't you need two, one for the front and one for the back?

imagine if someone put one of those in their stovebolt. The first thing I would think after putting it in is "hmmmm. I wonder if the hood will close..."

Put that in a longbed AD and step on it and you have an instant shortbed...

Suuuure its chromed, but how reliable is the oil pump?

And for those of us without the $20-50K for one of these Falconer engines, may I suggest the Packard 4M marine engine used to power PT boats during WW2.These engines are sill available NOS for a measly 10 thousand bucks.
V-12

Well, those packard engines would work but at 158 gallons per hour for one engine I think I will pass

For those that missed it, My Classic Car had one of Jay Leno's cars this week, a 1915 Hispano-Suiza. Had an aircraft V8 in it, the one used in the Spad. 300+ hp and over 1,000 ft-lb of torque. The chassis would twist when he punched it driving down the street.

Hey Luke, just get a 55 gal. drum and drive it 20 minutes at a time.

I'm putting one of those V-12s into my Austin-Healey. 800HP, 2000lbs, I like them odds...

-Boyo

Just in case 12 cylinders won't get the job done, maybe this 28 cylinder, 4600 cubic inch radial is for you.At wide open throttle ,gasoline engines use half a pound of fuel an hour per horsepower.... Imagine this thing in Chiphead\'s 50\'s Chevy car?

I can't believe you guys are even looking at those ity bity motors. Check out this 42 cylinder water cooled monster. I don't think you could close the hood on this one.

http://www.weakforcepress.com/ :p

Markw, the Tornado never flew. It was dropped before they got that far. It was built in sections. A few 14 cyl engines were built first. Then several 42 cyl versions were built and tested. It had the capability to go to 70 cyls. It had great throttle response and must have been a sweet runner, when everything worked right. Personally I doubt it would have ever made a good engine. Too many parts, the pumping losses had to be horrible, getting the right mixture through all that plumbing to all the cylinders. It had to be a nightmare to work on. But it is an interesting engine. It was kind of like 7 l6 engines sharing a common crank. Mike

hahaha

I just went to the site and listened to one of their engines. Find the line that says "Click here and listen for the thunder..."

You should have seen my cats wake up and put their ears at full attention!!!

One of these days, I'm going to learn how to cast an engine like these guys: http://www.acmefluid.com.au/larry/dmd1.html

Except it'll be a V-12, built to accept off-the-shelf Chevy V-6 parts. If I could just figure out how to bolt two crankshafts end-to-end...

Seriously, this is on my "to do" list for the next 5 years. And I wasn't kidding about the Healey... That unmistakable V-12 purr is something, ain't it?

(I just played that audio clip for the missus - she said "That's pretty obnoxious." Cool!)

-Boyo

Boyo, just build it to use an inline 6 crank and use special rods. Much easier.