How a Radial Engine Works

[PA.]

Just came across these videos.

 

 

 

[PA.]

Radial engine in a car.

 

 

 

[gandalph]

!!!!!!!

 

 

[pmccarthy]

Sometimes you just gotta ask WHY?

 

 

[gandalph]

Sometimes you just gotta ask WHY?

I think the answer to that questions would have to be "Because he could".

Try making that in Australia. The Nannies would have fits

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Reminds me of another aircraft engine shoehorned into a car. Although not a fan of excess, I loved the stories about Maseratis and Porsches being overtaken at high speed by a mystery Rolls Royce...

 

http://www.supercars.net/blog/1931-rolls-royce-phantom-ii-merlin/

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226932/Classic-Bentley-fitted-27-litre-SPITFIRE-engine-goes-sale-500-000-Top-Gear-stars-wince-fuel-bills.html

 

 

[Yenn]

Not a Merlin as he admits at the end. The unsupercharged version is the Meteor. We used to use 4 gals per mile in the Centurion tank, which weighed 52 tons. Great fun to punt around on rough country. I had an accident in one once. An officer came round to where I was and told me he had just run into me with a truck. I never felt a thing.