Something Besides Ham Radio

[Chris P.]

Went to my favorite show this past weekend: The 55th anual Maryland Steam Historical Society "steam show" in Arcadia Md. I have attended this show for the last 35 years now, and it is my all time favorite.

Seems the Md and Pa. inspectors have kissed and made up on the pressure rules for the boiler inspections and there was plenty of BIG steam stuff! Not to mention acres of gas engines!! I was in hog heaven!!

So I felt obliged to post some more pix for others to enjoy!


                                                                 The Slab Bacon

Ha! I was there Saturday. They sure did have a nice show this year and nice weather too.

[SM6OID]

Hej !

Here you will see photos of a Rolls-Royce B80 mk5P.
Inline 8, intake over exhaust. If my memory is correct, 346 cubic inches.
169 bhp at 3750 rpm, idles happy at around 375-400 rpm with a very nice sound.
I had to get two of them since they are so small...     Weight is around 900 lbs each.

The engine on the photo has 220 hours of running time since october 1953, about the same with the second engine.
They (mk5P) were used to power the electrical winch of a Centurion recovery vehicle.

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Okay, now you've done it. All this talk about old engines caused me to go dig my Giant Slayer out of the garage for its yearly running. It's no Rolls Royce, but this monster will run for hours on a remarkably small amount of gasoline. It's designed to run radio gear or charge batteries. Got it at the last or next-to-last Hossraders at Deerfield back in the early 90s. Massive Castrol Oil storage container used for scale.

Slab's got a Tiger genny that's even MORE intimidating!  

[SM6OID]

Hej !

Well, that was a nice little engine! Easy to carry and not too expensive to fire up!

So, to next engine...
Meteor mk4B

V12 petrol engine, 650 bhp @ 2400 rpm
Bore: 5.4 inch
Stroke: 6.0 inch
Total displ: 1649 cubic inch

From the beginning designed from the famous Rolls-Royce Merlin (Aero engine)
A more powerful engine was needed for tanks in the UK, so a Merlin with the prop reduction gear milled off and with twin dual throat carbs proved to be the answer... The Meteor. And, some other changes of course.
My engine was overhauled by the Swedish Army in 1990, then never used since.
I have the things I need to start it, just put it together.... some sunny day.

By the way, friends are always welcome to visit me! I do agree it's a shame that the distance between US and Sweden is so big. But, feel welcome! 

[The Slab Bacon]

I love the chrome valve covers!!   

that one would be way kool in a T-Bucket street rod!! No one over here would have a fiddlers clue what it is!!    

[WQ9E]

That Meteor V12 is beautiful.  Build a walnut stand for it and it would look right at home in a formal study

Thanks for posting the photo and post an MP3 sound file when you start it up.

[SM6OID]

Hej !

Yesterday Santa's Representative called me and I was informed that I have been a good boy this year, so they will arrange with a truck to send this X-mas present to my garage.
This makes me wonder, can I trust the information that Santa collects? Can there be a mistake?
Either way, I'm happy!  
A russian tank engine, very low running hours. (used to power the T55 tank)
Diesel V12, all aluminium.
Displ: 2374 cu in (38.88 l)
Power 575 bhp

Google "Transmash V12" and you will get an idea of what it is.

[The Slab Bacon]

Cool piece!! There arent too many all aluminum diesels around, at least not in this country.  I assume that due to it's low horsepower to displacement ratio it is not turbocharged. But due to it's being all aluminum and lighter weight it might be a real good candidate for some engine swapping projects. also looking at the shape of the ports to the heads on the exhaust manifolds, it looks like it might be 4 valves per cylinder, so there is some performance potential to be unlocked!!

[WA1GFZ]

Was that the Merlin the Brits used in the P51 Mustang because we wouldn't give them our dual turbo V12 Allison?

[w3jn]

Was that the Merlin the Brits used in the P51 Mustang because we wouldn't give them our dual turbo V12 Allison?

No, they used the Merlin because it was better than the Allison and they used the Merlin in Spitfires, Lancasters, etc.  Then Packard built the Merlin under license here.

We gave the Brits hundreds, if not thousands, of Allisons in lend-lease P-39s, P-40s, and P-38s.

[WA1GFZ]

I seem to remember the Brits not getting the Turbos for the P51.

One of the guys I work with said his Dad drove a P38. My Dad's cousin was in a Recon squad of P38s as a ground pounder and carried a Tommy. He is 91 now and still kicking.

[The Slab Bacon]

Was that the Merlin the Brits used in the P51 Mustang because we wouldn't give them our dual turbo V12 Allison?

I know you're a GM guy, Frank, but you need to do a little more research on this one.
There is only 2 engines that GM made that I really liked. One was the older 2-stroke Detroit Diesels, and the other was the Allison V-12s. The Allisons were supercharged,
not turbocharged. They did use a fan type blower, but it was mechanically driven, and not an exhaust turbine.  They are kool engines, 1710 cubic inches, and 1Hp per cube right out of the box.

The real shame of it is that they used platinum bering inserts. that is why so few of them ever made it into the hands of Hot Rodders. It was by far too profitable to rip them apart for the berings than to surplus them out whole.

There was a local aluminum recycler that had a mountain sized pile of them in their yard about 30 years ago. Not knowing then about the platinum berings, I went in and tried to buy a few of them. I was literally just about run out of there at gunpoint ?? Not having a clue what I was asking for I made "exit stage left" out the door never to come back.

I learned why some years later when I ran into an old friend running them in tractor pull tractors. I told him the story and he gigled and told me about the platinum berings!!

[The Slab Bacon]

It could be possible that they made a turbocharged version for some special application, but I have never heard of it. Hell, with 1710 Hp out of the box, we dont need no stinking turbocharging! ! ! !    

[WA1GFZ]

Frank,
I saw twin turbos on an Aliison V12 in a Budwiser boat years ago.
I agree they were belt driven blowers in the P51, sorry. Yea,
I'm a GM guy

[Ed/KB1HYS]

It was the P-38 lightning that was sent to England with out the superchargers, which were thought to be to high tech to fall into German hands if one was shot down.  The performance was so bad with out the superchargers that the Brits called them "Castrated Lightnings" and said "no thanks" to any more with out turbochargers.

[The Slab Bacon]

Frank,
I saw twin turbos on an Aliison V12 in a Budwiser boat years ago.
I agree they were belt driven blowers in the P51, sorry. Yea,
I'm a GM guy

Frank,
          I bet the builder of the budweiser boat installed them. I'm sure they made a lot more boost than the original primitive superchargers. My buddy that pulls tractors with them has made up all of the B/S to affix his with dual turbos as well, but he built it. It has a very interesting sound while pulling. He also runs his on alky instead of 115/145.
when idling it looks funny an this syripy blue flame kinda rolls out of the huge elbow outlets on the turbos. It sounds wierd when he puts the boot to it, kinda more like a low pitched rumble than the usual scream from a stack of V-8s.

[The Slab Bacon]

It was the P-38 lightning that was sent to England with out the superchargers, which were thought to be to high tech to fall into German hands if one was shot down.  The performance was so bad with out the superchargers that the Brits called them "Castrated Lightnings" and said "no thanks" to any more with out turbochargers.

Ed,
     I bet they were "castrated". Without the superchargers they prolly only made half the horsepower!!

[WA1GFZ]

While were on the subject.
Last night I'm sitting at a light in the Mercury GM my Dad left me.
This yuppie pulls up on my right staging like a funny car wanting to pass on the right and cut me off to get ahead of traffic. POS Loser LEXASS.
It was kind of funny but I pushed the little button on the shifter to make the green led come on. He stages about a half length ahead of me. Light turns and he comes off the line like a rail. I give him a length then nail Dad's Merc.....good-by. He is on my ass for 5 miles weaving around as I come up on a buzzerd driving way too slow for him. As he turns off so I flip him my little finger.  sorry Dad (but he would have done the same thing)

[The Slab Bacon]

that reminds me od a time about 20 years ago. i was sitting at a redlight, and this kid in as IROC-Z pulls up besides me. (I was driving a very innocent looking 66 Ford 6' stepside pick up) He was trying to bounce the front end and look bad-ass for his girlfriend in the shotgun seat. My wife looked at me and that was all it took. The light turned green and I busted his ass!! So bad that he wouldnt even pull up next to me at the next light. He never even considered that that truck only weighed 3200lb or had a 71 MoPar 440 under the hood.   He never realized that he picked a race with the equivelant of a 440 Dart.    Life was fun back then!

[WA1GFZ]

Ford 4.6 not a bad motor for lugging that beast.
Frank,
My Jethro mobile 72 one ton with rough cut oak flat bed. I could take a vet the first 100 feet. 350 bored and built. Old fuelie cam. 4.11s  Doug headers. Fugly.
It made many trips to Hostraders.
 I remember sleeping in it one night and Tim woke me he was all blasted taking a drain on my front tire.

[The Slab Bacon]

Ford 4.6 not a bad motor for lugging that beast.

Yea, but.......................... It didn't exist back then

Out of box 375Hp 440 Magnum did the job just fine   

[WA1GFZ]

yupper cubes rule

[SM6OID]

Hej !

MoPar 440 kicks ass.   
It was a very hot summer day...
My brothers car, but it me on the pic, sorry for making you cry.
 

[Bill, KD0HG]

I'm liking the new 2011 Ford 6.7L diesel as in the F series trucks...400 HP/ 800 ft/lbs out the showroom door. Prolly good for 600 HP/ 1200 ft/lbs with a chip, intake and exhaust. Good grief.

http://www.internationalpowerstroke.com/67psd.html

The chipped 7.3L diesel in my '02 really blows some nasty smoke when I get on it...I remember watching a ricer with a coffee can exhaust keeping up with me on the right, and I could see my exhaust smoke blasting into his driver's window and out the passenger side window. I don't know how he could even see. Still has me laughing.

[WA1GFZ]

I know a guy in LA who has his windshield washers aimed high so he can spray cars following too close. It was pretty funny to see from behind.

Black smoke now that is very funny.
Kid moves in next door into mopar 4 bangers. He programs his own injection profiles. He has a turbo Shadow that is running pretty rich. We bust each other all the time. I walked over with my Son last Saturday to check out his turbo set up and stopped and looked at him. Hey you only have 1/2 a motor...
He goofs on the goat roper who bought my Firebird. He always has to rev it up to impress me when he stops by. He just stopped by to show me the paint job. Looks like he used spray cans. I told him to wet sand it and try again.