I would hate to imagine how much it would cost to repair one of these engines with their varying-length stroke. Porsche Just Patented a Radical Engine Design—Here's How It Works The German automaker sees your four-stroke engine and raises you... two more strokes. …

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Description: To paraphrase the Captain Renault character in Casablanca… I’m shocked! [Casablanca gambling? I'm shocked!] Claude Rains was really good in that role.

Two, aware of those, have a model of a rotary in a WW I biplane, arg, cannot remember the manufacturer,Spad(?), maybe French. Those especially make me wonder how they were carbureted. As noted before, flew in a Ford, three radial engines. BTW, my comment was facetious.

[image] Purebred: have a model of a rotary in a WW I biplane, arg, cannot remember the manufacturer,Spad(?), maybe French. Could it be an Anzani engine? [image] Anzani 20-Cylinder Aircraft Engine The Anzani 20-cylinder radial was one of the largest and most-powerful aircraft engi…

Wowser, quite advanced for 1913. To my knowledge, WWI fighters only used single row radials. Found it: Nieuport 11 biplane [IMG_2618] To bring it back to cars, some WWI AC were powered by OHC engines. Yet for the most part, with a few notable exceptions, American cars were powered by flathead…

[image] Purebred: Yet for the most part, with a few notable exceptions, American cars were powered by flatheads until Olds/Caddy OHV V8 in 49, Studebaker OHV V8 in 51. Yup! Buick actually led the way–in 1903–but other manufacturers were slow to follow them. [image] 111 years ago, B…

Imagine my surprise at seeing an overly complex mechanical design of German origin… :grinning:

[image] TwinTurbo: Imagine my surprise at seeing an overly complex mechanical design of German origin… To paraphrase the Captain Renault character in Casablanca… I’m shocked! [Casablanca gambling? I'm shocked!] Claude Rains was really good in that role.

Likely the most advanced aircraft engine from WW1 would be the Hispano Suiza water-cooled, overhead cam V8. Designed by a Swiss engineer and built in Spain as well as in the US under license. All aluminum block/head. The head wasn’t separate from the bores so no head gasket worries. The crankcase wa…

One of the reasons the SPAD was so successful.

[image] Purebred: American cars were powered by flatheads until Olds/Caddy OHV V8 in 49 @VDCdriver mentioned the Buick but Chevy introduced their OHV Stovebolt 6 in 1929. There were expensive American cars that had even more advanced engines like the Duesenberg… Straight 8, DOUBLE overhead c…

After the war, Hispano Suiza made some fantastic, high-performance cars. This one is a 1933 J-12, with a V-12 under the hood: [image]

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VDCdriver September 20, 2024, 8:16pm 18

To paraphrase the Captain Renault character in Casablanca…
I’m shocked!

Claude Rains was really good in that role.

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