if in doubt.. add bigger engine (radial powered subcompact) - Lateral-g Forums

deuce_454 · #1 02-25-2010, 01:48 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TIdQFnUvCA

**XcYZ** · #2 02-25-2010, 05:38 AM

lol, crazy. Just when you think you've seen/heard it all...

Musclerodz · #3 02-25-2010, 06:59 AM

Being aircooled, cylinders won't last long. Dude definitely knows his way around a machine shop.

71RS/SS396 · #4 02-25-2010, 08:08 AM

You would think with his fab skills he would at least build and install a cage! At least he wore a helmet ...LOL!

Garage Dog 65 · #5 02-25-2010, 08:56 AM

Here's the first start video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2V7B7-gdRA&NR=1

Brats and beer on the table with your buds cheering on the first startup - I guess we all can relate to that.

But... being a cold war B-52/KC-135 mechanic who spent may months in underground alert facilities waiting to launch our missle - that music in the first video always scares the crap outta me ...

Jim

**GregWeld** · #6 02-25-2010, 09:41 AM

Just because you can.... doesn't mean you should.

Kind of a complete waste of skills and perfectly good metal...

jmarsa · #7 02-25-2010, 11:10 AM

For you Greg:

--JMarsa

deuce_454 · #8 02-25-2010, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Musclerodz

Being aircooled, cylinders won't last long. Dude definitely knows his way around a machine shop.

there looks to be a couple of electric visible fans drawing air from the passenger compartment onto the cylinders... they are vissible in the shot of the interior of the finished car (3:30 min)...

and asside from that merlin v12 powered 55 chevy some insane australian guy built.. i think it is perhaps the most over powered car in existance... especially for that size rear wheels

**GregWeld** · #9 02-25-2010, 05:46 PM

Deuce -- You must be talking about Charley Lillards 55 Merlin!!

Blown353 · #10 02-25-2010, 06:30 PM

Very cool. Love how he managed to fit it into such a small car, the packaging wins an award! Awesome work on the transmission too.

Speaking of aircraft engines in cars... while not as cool as this one and nowhere near as nice as the Merlin powered 55 that was built at Castlemaine and now owned by Charlie, I missed buying this on ebay several years back by one bid... I got stuck in traffic on the way home and got "sniped" at the last minute. Got beat by $100. I would have stayed a few minutes late at work to bid but ebay is blocked by our content filter so I had to dash home... and didn't make it.

It's an Opel GT with an Allison V-1710 out back hooked to an Allison automatic transmission and axle out of a Greyhound bus. It was a little dirty but it ran and was all there. It was also pre-74 so I wouldn't have to worry about the California smog checks.

My plan was to clean it up and replace the muffled exhaust with zoomies out the top so I could cruise around town and be really obnoxious.

Don't know what happened to it. The ebay seller forwarded my contact info to the buyer (I wanted it bad!) but I never heard from the new owner. My guess is that it was parted out for spares for an aircraft or tractor puller.