I've seen the multi-engine set up on these "tractor pull" rigs and got thinking it would look sick on a t modified! Does any one know how I would mate two 200 I-6's? Would you just machine a solid coupling between the 2 cranks or what? Would you also need to extensively modify the ignition to synchronize them some how? Just brain storming.
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Ya a machined coupling might just be trhe ticket. Although the crank snout of the rear engine might not like it.
You would have to build Two very indentacal engines.
While at Crane Cams my superviser was a guy named Bob Stratman.
He raced a twin engine (SBC) Digger for many years. He said something about using a steel crank in rear engine and having a bigger snout welded to it. He aslo mentioned the downside of buying 2 of everything.
You would have to build Two very indentacal engines.
While at Crane Cams my superviser was a guy named Bob Stratman.
He raced a twin engine (SBC) Digger for many years. He said something about using a steel crank in rear engine and having a bigger snout welded to it. He aslo mentioned the downside of buying 2 of everything.
Or you could do like Tommy Ivo did, and place the engines side-by-side. If I recall, he doubled up on the flywheel ring gears and meshed them together to connect the engines. The clutch and driveshaft were on the left-hand one, which matched up with the offset in the rear axle housing.
Way back in the 30's or maybe 40's, somebody (Auto Union?) took two straight 8's and joined them by gearing their flywheels together. They called it a U-16 arrangement, and it made a ton of power, but was too peaky to be controllable.
Twin 6's would be way cool, imho. Especially if you could find a second engine that mirrored the first one - have both sets of exhaust on the outside of the whole thing.
Way back in the 30's or maybe 40's, somebody (Auto Union?) took two straight 8's and joined them by gearing their flywheels together. They called it a U-16 arrangement, and it made a ton of power, but was too peaky to be controllable.
Twin 6's would be way cool, imho. Especially if you could find a second engine that mirrored the first one - have both sets of exhaust on the outside of the whole thing.
Ivo also ran 4 engines, 2 coupled damper to flywheel driving each axle
http://www.tommyivo.com/hotrod-1.htm
http://www.tommyivo.com/cars.html
http://www.tommyivo.com/hotrod-1.htm
http://www.tommyivo.com/cars.html
Ahh, Tommy Ivo and his twin dragster...one of the things that got me hooked on old Buicks!
There are more twin-engined dragsters out there than I imagined, and several inline 6's!
http://www.twotogo.homestead.com/4_6cyl_twins.html
There are more twin-engined dragsters out there than I imagined, and several inline 6's!
http://www.twotogo.homestead.com/4_6cyl_twins.html
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Wonder what it sounds like????
What do it sound like?How about a dragon with massive indigestion.Hehehehe.Now if that could just be registered street legal.Leo
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Yup...Alot of twin engine Aircraft also. Neutralizes the torque effect of the props.
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Linc's 200":10rybyq0 said:Wonder what it sounds like????
Like two Bread Trucks drag racing...
Four V8s.Leo
Four Pontiac V-8's... think it ran 404 mph.
IIRC,it was 406.6 MPH.Leo
But he never set the Land Speed Record, The Summers' Brothers 4 Hemi-powered Goldenrod http://www.speedace.info/goldenrod.htm set it @ 409.27 in nov of 1965. Their record stood until Al Teague ran 409.986 powered by a single Hemi in 1992, making it quite possibly the longest lived record in all of motorsports. Then the Vesco Brothers Turbinator, powered by a helicopter turbine, ran 458.440mph on October 18th 2001. That probably puts the LSR out of reach of piston ebngined cars
actually SR I am sure there are some oddball classes out there with old records still standing (the record for a 3L class motor in a stock classic car is from 1974....33 years old vs. 27 for that one)
My bad. too lazy to open up the scta-bna web page and verify before I typed.
Can we at least agree that the only real land speed records are the wheel driven land speed record
Can we at least agree that the only real land speed records are the wheel driven land speed record
I thought those turbine powered ones were wheel driven off the turbine?
