Thread: Radial engined Plymouth,,,,

See your Plymouth and raise you:

Radial engined gogomobil:
Awesome, Defined: The 10-Liter, Radial-Engined Goggomobil

Wrong adjective - should be ludicrous, not awesome.

Also be very interesting to know exactly how he plans to cool it - those engines need proper cowling and a very well planned airflow if used at more than idling speed. As shown there would be very little cooling at all for the lower cylinders.

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Wrong adjective - should be ludicrous, not awesome.

Also be very interesting to know exactly how he plans to cool it - those engines need proper cowling and a very well planned airflow if used at more than idling speed. As shown there would be very little cooling at all for the lower cylinders.

John

This shows him driving it around on the street - fast forward to 9:00
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t2M6fwsvzs[/ame]

There doesn't seem a lot of cooling for the bottom of the motor.

I wish i could find a pic or video but guys my dad knows fitted a 14ltr Hispano-Suiza WW1 fighter plane engine into a 1914 Delage, 1000hp at the rear wheels with only rear wheel brakes.

well that kept amused for a while!

thanks....

Originally Posted by loanrangie

I wish i could find a pic or video but guys my dad knows fitted a 14ltr Hispano-Suiza WW1 fighter plane engine into a 1914 Delage, 1000hp at the rear wheels with only rear wheel brakes.

As far as i can find, no H-S (or any other manufacturer) WW1 engine came anywhere near 1000hp - and I know of no piston aeroplane engine that ever came anywhere near that from 14l!

If it was a WW1 engine, 14l is quite feasible, but would have been under 200hp - quite enough for a 1914 Delage!

(for contemporary speeds with vehicles at that time, a more or less standard Stanley with a streamlined body and high ratio final drive was timed two ways at 120mph over a measured mile in 1908 from memory - and a further run was timed one way at 190mph before the accident. With two wheel brakes.)

John