A shameless image thread for the enginephiles

All that has to do with the power train, gearbox, clutch, fuels and lubricants, etc. Generally the mechanical side of Formula One.
J.A.W.
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BRM & 16 cylinders eh? Bloody marvellous as a technical oddity, but really not too practical..

Here is a another strange one from Blighty..
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/ ... 00118.html

Seems none of the many X-configuration mills tried were successful in gaining service acceptance..
"Well, we knocked the bastard off!"

Ed Hilary on being 1st to top Mt Everest,
(& 1st to do a surface traverse across Antarctica,
in good Kiwi style - riding a Massey Ferguson farm
tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).

xpensive
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The Alfa Romeo 1.5 turbo V8, such a shame it didn't perform as well as it looked;

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J.A.W. wrote:Seems none of the many X-configuration mills tried were successful in gaining service acceptance..
The Vulture gained service acceptance and went to war.

J.A.W.
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wuzak wrote:
J.A.W. wrote:Seems none of the many X-configuration mills tried were successful in gaining service acceptance..
The Vulture gained service acceptance and went to war.
But, alas not successfully.. ..& it was dumped, rightly recognised as a dog - even by its manufacturer..
"Well, we knocked the bastard off!"

Ed Hilary on being 1st to top Mt Everest,
(& 1st to do a surface traverse across Antarctica,
in good Kiwi style - riding a Massey Ferguson farm
tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).

wuzak
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J.A.W. wrote:
wuzak wrote:
J.A.W. wrote:Seems none of the many X-configuration mills tried were successful in gaining service acceptance..
The Vulture gained service acceptance and went to war.
But, alas not successfully.. ..& it was dumped, rightly recognised as a dog - even by its manufacturer..
Rolls-Royce had it cancelled, with other engines, so that that it could concentrate on Merlin and Griffon development and production.

The Manchester was too big an aircraft for twins of 1800-2000hp. The Vulture ran relatively trouble free in thr Tornado prototype.

gruntguru
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xpensive wrote:The Alfa Romeo 1.5 turbo V8, such a shame it didn't perform as well as it looked;
But boy, did it sound good!
je suis charlie

auaq
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GitanesBlondes wrote:The Lotus 43 an the BRM H16.

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/ ... 7vf7wu.jpg
What's with the presence of oil on the two lower exhausts?

J.A.W.
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This final piston design built by R-R, a real aero-monstrosity - burned petrol at 342 imp gal/hr at take off rating..
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/ ... 00626.html
"Well, we knocked the bastard off!"

Ed Hilary on being 1st to top Mt Everest,
(& 1st to do a surface traverse across Antarctica,
in good Kiwi style - riding a Massey Ferguson farm
tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).

wesley123
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Was posted a few minutes ago on Mulsannes corner Facebook page. Just love the turbo/intercooler placement of the 962

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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... permPage=1
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Carlos
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Ilmor and Bishop Innovations cooperated on the development of a V10 F1 sleeve valve project in 2006:
http://home.people.net.au/~mrbdesign...utoTechBRV.pdf

Edit: There's a thread somewhere ... that included an engineer that worked on the project.

flyboy2160
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xpensive wrote:Myself and sombrero have discussed this for a while and his latest contributions in the quiz-thread got me all wet,
so here is the thread where you can post you most p*rnographic of engine-images totally shameless......
This thread was started to show photos of interesting engines. So, at the request of the OP, please try to steer this back to photos of interesting engines rather than a free-for-all discussion of engine technologies.

p.s. I've just renamed this to reflect that it's intended to be an engine photo gallery.


xpensive
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Thanx moderator, another option for the OT brigade is of course to form their own thread rather than polluting other's.
"I spent most of my money on wine and women...I wasted the rest"

xpensive
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I saw one of these today, AMG 6.0 V12 Biturbo, what a monster, wish you'd been there Joao, or perhaps you got your own?;

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J.A.W.
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More images of the Lion, & still impressive - for a nearly century old unit..
http://www.deejay51.com/brooklands_napier_w12.htm
"Well, we knocked the bastard off!"

Ed Hilary on being 1st to top Mt Everest,
(& 1st to do a surface traverse across Antarctica,
in good Kiwi style - riding a Massey Ferguson farm
tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).

xpensive
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Looks a lot better this way, in a thread for images, doesn't it?

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