Guest zebm1 Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 It's a heliocopter engine modified to run horizontally by Mr. Tucker's boyz.....don't remember tha copter's name tho.......
Guest zebm1 Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 yall got me...guess I'm gonna have to go esoteric on yuse guys.... here's tha T/A Camaro from back in tha day.... and tha heads..... Tha vehicle ID Plate and block number..... and what tha car looks like today...restored...
Biscuitbuilder Posted May 30, 2008 Posted May 30, 2008 It's a heliocopter engine modified to run horizontally by Mr. Tucker's boyz.....don't remember tha copter's name tho....... Not close at all Zeb!
samdiego Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 Is it a Continental converted to an Agricultural pump?
george 53 Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 A water cooled pancake four? Non foreign? Does it have a military application?
dub Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 It IS something usually found in an automotive application, right? Not a marine engine is it? I'm baffled too. Any more clues?
Guest zebm1 Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 Perhaps it's a Lycoming water-cooled flat-4...... and whilst yall are at it, try this one on for size.....
Biscuitbuilder Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 Perhaps it's a Lycoming water-cooled flat-4...... and whilst yall are at it, try this one on for size..... That's one of the Fageol Twin-Coach Spl's in a garage in Gasoline Alley, Indianapolis. Engine is a modified Fageol bus 6-cylinder engine. But, what is the engine I put up there? Biscuitbuilder
Guest zebm1 Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 OK, guys, this engine is??????? By the way, it's NOT an import! Biscuitbuilder Well let us look at this engine in closer detail....it has a Delco starter and a Delco generator with a Ford carburetor up top. Now it is painted in Olive Drab, which to me suggests Military Surplus. Going by the Delco parts, this must be a General Motors 1940s/1950s military application. I suspect that it is a rear-engined application, given that the exhausts exit upwards, perhaps a prototype application... Light Scout car.
CAL Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 (edited) Well let us look at this engine in closer detail....it has a Delco starter and a Delco generator with a Ford carburetor up top. Now it is painted in Olive Drab, which to me suggests Military Surplus. Going by the Delco parts, this must be a General Motors 1940s/1950s military application. I suspect that it is a rear-engined application, given that the exhausts exit upwards, perhaps a prototype application... Light Scout car. considering where the radiator and fan is, it would not get any airflow being a rear engine. The only two domestic flat 4s that I know of is Lycoming and Continental. Edited May 31, 2008 by CAL
Guest zebm1 Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 Well Cal, it's sitting on a skid, I suspect that in the vehicle it was originally intended for...that the radiator(s) were in a different location.
CAL Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 Well Cal, it's sitting on a skid, I suspect that in the vehicle it was originally intended for...that the radiator(s) were in a different location. What about the fan?
CAL Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 not to mention the direction of the pipes and the power takeoff end would at best make it a mid-engine.
Biscuitbuilder Posted May 31, 2008 Posted May 31, 2008 The car it was intended to power was to have been front engine, rear drive--and no, it is NOT a Subaru Biscuitbuilder
Guest zebm1 Posted June 1, 2008 Posted June 1, 2008 And how many of these engines did they produce Art?
george 53 Posted June 1, 2008 Posted June 1, 2008 It's begining to sound like this is a one off non production engine,in which case it would not be as known as a regularly seen and therefor known engine.I make this assumption from the reply"the car it WAS INTENDED to power".If it was not a regularly used production engine,And not a commercially available one, like an Offy, or Fronty,or likewise racing type that people would be familiar with,I don't expect anyone (exept maybe you)to be able to tell us just what it is.
Guest zebm1 Posted June 1, 2008 Posted June 1, 2008 Hey Art, waz that engine for this Dream car......
Biscuitbuilder Posted June 1, 2008 Posted June 1, 2008 It's begining to sound like this is a one off non production engine,in which case it would not be as known as a regularly seen and therefor known engine.I make this assumption from the reply"the car it WAS INTENDED to power".If it was not a regularly used production engine,And not a commercially available one, like an Offy, or Fronty,or likewise racing type that people would be familiar with,I don't expect anyone (exept maybe you)to be able to tell us just what it is. Funny thing though, on that other "big message board", the one that gets millions of hits, several people figured it out, all but one by email. This engine is a prototype, perhaps the only one still in existence, designed and built by Studebaker in 1959, for a still-born subcompact car intended to compete with the european imports then on a roll in the US. It was rated, if I remember the placard correctly, at 75hp, which if it had come to market, might well have powered the first "pocket rocket" econobox car. It was fun, both here and over on the other board, reading peoples' thoughts on it! Biscuitbuilder
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