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Blackjack
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 Posted - 18 Feb 2005 : 12:28:46 PM
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Anyone got a car to put this in? To put it in perspective - that E-Type is about three feet away.
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Hopped58
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Posted - 18 Feb 2005 : 1:43:19 PM
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Blackjack,
Is that a Bugatti straight-eight? Looks vaguely like a turbo hanging off the Jag side of the engine, but I never heard of a turbo on Bugatti, so maybe something to do with waterpump?
Rich G
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Blackjack
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Posted - 18 Feb 2005 : 2:51:15 PM
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Rich
It is a straight 8 Bugatti. There were no notes about its origin and I wonder whether it was one of the Royale engine converted for duty in a rail car.
I think it is a water pump on the other side. But it would be very easy to turbo charge through those two downdraught carbs!!
One of the interesting things is how much of the block is made up of 10mm sheet ally with just the cylinders cast in what seemed to be bronze.
Hmmm, I wonder if this would fit in my T modified and would it upset the elitists??
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Hopped58
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Posted - 18 Feb 2005 : 3:43:49 PM
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Geoff,
It probabaly is a railcar engine, and would be very similer to the lump used in the Royale. There are a few of these engine (and a couple of Royales!) in the Schlumpf museum in Molsheim. Well worth a look if you ever go that way.
Rich
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kapri
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Posted - 18 Feb 2005 : 4:30:21 PM
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Blackjack, pretty sure that IS a water pump on the side as I've had these through work for reconditioning before ( well not Bugatti's but certainly modular style standalone water pumps on vintage engines )
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Blackjack
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Posted - 18 Feb 2005 : 6:03:00 PM
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Kapri - it was just sitting on this stand with an E-Type and a few moth-eaten posters. No-one actually on the stand all day.
We were seriously wondering whether to go and buy a couple of storeman's coats and borrow a trolley and wheel it away!!
What would it look like sorted & cleaned up with all that ally plate engine-turned and gleaming!!
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rottenpop
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Posted - 18 Feb 2005 : 6:25:19 PM
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Big block? where......?
This is a BIG BLOCK!!!
Note the bloke......
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rottenpop
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Posted - 18 Feb 2005 : 6:27:40 PM
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Hang on! Somethings just hit me. That crank.......how big do you reckon the lathe is that they did the machining on?
D, ell.
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Andy
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Posted - 18 Feb 2005 : 8:04:52 PM
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But if the lathe was that big imagine the lathe that turned that lathes leadscrew and then how big was the lathe that turned the leadscrew for that lathe, etc, etc.
I expect the crank was machined in an off set grinder thingy tho.
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Battersea Boys
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Posted - 18 Feb 2005 : 8:15:02 PM
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What about the bloke who was operating the lathe??.....
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Paul G
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Posted - 18 Feb 2005 : 8:44:18 PM
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How are they going to get the head gasket home without creasing it?Or are they going to rely on four & a half thousand tubes of gasket paste?
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Hopped58
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Posted - 18 Feb 2005 : 10:43:55 PM
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Wonder what it'll sound like on open headers?!
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A32Flathead
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Posted - 19 Feb 2005 : 01:07:25 AM
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Local Nova.....
712ci, and yes, it does get driven!
Dave
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stevieb
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Posted - 19 Feb 2005 : 01:42:48 AM
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You'd be surprised how big some lathes are......cutting tools you could'nt even lift!!!!!!!! What about how the leadscrew was made for the first lathe ever with a leadscrew (to cut a thread)?????
hhmmmmmmmm
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mikeyboy
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Posted - 19 Feb 2005 : 02:34:22 AM
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It made 47,789hp and 54,467 foot ibs on the dyno.All tests were carried out on pump gas.
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Battersea Boys
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Posted - 19 Feb 2005 : 09:03:01 AM
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I don,t think its real, I was watching it for 10 minutes and nothing moved!!...
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gingabloke
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Posted - 19 Feb 2005 : 09:25:11 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Battersea Boys
I don,t think its real, I was watching it for 10 minutes and nothing moved!!...
If my engine's anything to go by, that's real!
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muthaswurry
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Posted - 19 Feb 2005 : 10:19:13 AM
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how about this one then?
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Blackjack
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Posted - 19 Feb 2005 : 2:08:53 PM
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Is that the same 1800cu V12 air-cooled Patten tank engine that Jay Leno has in the Blastolene Special?
If you've not seen the Blastolene cars have a look here;
http://www.blastolene.com/
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muthaswurry
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Posted - 20 Feb 2005 : 07:19:54 AM
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certainly is! twin turbo'd. this one is in Rodney Rucker's 1927 studebaker sedan!
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