Weird Engines

[justyfied]

Nice little article on some of the different ways to put together an engine:

www.caranddriver.com/features/the-10-most-unusual-engines-of-all-time-feature

[lincolntbird]

You gotta love love those engines ;D. Have read about or seen some of those engines . There where a couple of Knocker Commer engines for sale earlier in the year only about 40K's from home, was almost tempted to go & have a look . I think the Veyron would nearly be my favorite .
There was a lot of ingenuity & creative lateral thinking went into all of those engine .

[justyfied]

I like the Lanchester twin crank for its smoothness and the Chrysler multi bank. what would happen if a modern engine was tied together with 4 more of it.s brother engines, Who wouldn't like to hear the roar of a 30 cylinder engine eh?

[lincolntbird]

Thirty cylinders certainly would be something awesome to hear .
What sort of brain food do these guys consume to come up with these designs ;D.
A modern day thirty cylinder engine could be something to think about, what would you use as the basis for such an engine .

[justyfied]

Oct 12, 2013 10:45:16 GMT -4 lincolntbird said:

Thirty cylinders certainly would be something awesome to hear .
What sort of brain food do these guys consume to come up with these designs ;D.
A modern day thirty cylinder engine could be something to think about, what would you use as the basis for such an engine .

How about a very strong well proven Japanese 4 cylinder design times" 5" It would ONLY be a 20 cylinder engine but more compact. Say 5 Over 2 liter K series engines from Honda. The whole batch turbo charged getting a reliable 400 hp each. So that would be over 2000HP from 10 liters of engine. That would get the job done! ;D

Another idea would be to stack 2- 6 cylinder Subaru boxer engines one on top of the other like the H engine. I would think you could even get that to fit into a car.

[lincolntbird]

I like the idea of the two Subaru 6 cylinder boxers ;D, how about with turbos as well
For the thirty cylinder job I was thinking something along the lines of 5 Ford Falcon in-line sixes, maybe even the XR6 turbo ;D .

[justyfied]

So I was looking for a link to info on a 2 engined small block Chev dragster from the 60's.
Found someone doing a tribute build that explores all the questions of mating 2-- V8 engines together side by side.
Lots of info here:

www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=533613&showall=1


And this website dedicated to twin dragsters:
twotogo.homestead.com/index.html

[justyfied]

How about an engine with 5 cylinders set up like a revolver?

pixelbark.com/13045/how-the-duke-engines-increases-the-efficiency-of-the-internal-combustion-engine

[justyfied]

Oct 12, 2013 10:45:16 GMT -4 lincolntbird said:

Thirty cylinders certainly would be something awesome to hear .
What sort of brain food do these guys consume to come up with these designs ;D.
A modern day thirty cylinder engine could be something to think about, what would you use as the basis for such an engine .

Here is the Chrysler engine in detail:

www.autospeed.com/cms/article.html?&A=112613

[sikari2015]

Rotaries are just incredible engineering. They're actually 2 strokes as they use ports instead of valves. They are also incredibly flexible in design, you literally add a joining plate and bolt on another rotor.

I envision a ceramic rotary, which would counter the less efficient nature of existing rotary technology, by improving heat efficiency... the one killer for all internal combustion engines.