My kinda Hot Rod engine!

[Andy Brown]

 

[Robert Pickard]

Now thats sweet

 

[Andy Brown]

I like how he kept it all under the hood and has the stingers exit behind the front wheels.

That bad boy is going to be LOUD!

 

[Robert Pickard]

I hope he keeps that car in the chrome color be awesome

 

[the german]

Wow Andy !

which chassis is it ?

 

[John Beardslee]

Hi Andy,

Is that a V8 outboard power head?? Those look like really long tuned pipes.

Thanks, John

 

[Andy Brown]

Just a photo I found on the internet. I think there was a write up. I should check for details.

John, I guess they are long to keep the power curve closer to a 4-stoke. Otherwise it might need 6.50 gears in the axle.

Old Volvo!

The guy has a Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/Rudezon

 

[John Beardslee]

I'm looking at the exhaust coming out of the valley in the V, most auto engines have the intake there so I thought it might be an outboard adapted to auto. There were a few people running midgets years ago that adapted 6 cylinder inline mercs to midgets, of course they even cut small block chevys in half and ran them in midgets too.

John

 

[John Beardslee]

The top left of the video says it's a 2 stroke V8 evinrude. Neat stuff, glad to know there are still people doing crazy things. How about a go kart with a 4 cylinder 48 ci Crosely engine mounted transverse and direct chain drive? I know a couple of brothers that pulled that off. Did zero to 50 mph in 2.5 seconds!

John

 

[RaceMechaniX]

Very cool.

 

[Andy Brown]

John, Did you notice the location and entrance to the intake tract?

I've always imagined a Top Fuel drag boat with 500 CI V8 Two Stoke on nitro. The HP would be MASSIVE. Way too much for a current T/F drag car.......because Goodyear does not make tires that would put the power to the ground.

 

[John Beardslee]

It's hard to tell for sure from the pic but I think it is under where an oil pan would be on an auto engine. The current Top Fuel cars are putting out between 8000 & 10,000 HP from what I hear, there are no dynos big enough to measure them right now. I always thought it would be neat to build a horizontal 12 cylinder engine with two of the 6 cylinder jugs off the F boat in my avatar picture. The size would have fit the Indy car sizes if I remember right. Chuck White from Michigan Center, Michigan put one of the 6 cylinder Quincy looper engines in a snowmobile to run in the winter drag races. It was scary fast!

Thanks, John

 

[moparbarn]

John, that is the intake & plenum on the bottom. A kid down the canal from me growing up in miami built a go kart with a DR 80 hp merc powerhead laid down across the back!! Direct drive,2 of us had to hold it up like an A or B hydro & ease it down when ready to launch. They actually let him run it at maimi-hollywood dragway at the wed. night run whatcha brung races. He ended up being a Mercury Marine factory rep, Ricky Lindheimer was his name.

 

[lohring]

My favorite high hp two stroke is this 800 hp with nitrous, turbocharged snowmobile engine. However, the V8 fits the car perfectly.

Lohring Miller

 

[mercguy]

Dick O'Dea of outboard racing fame once built a midget with a V-6 Mercury that was beating the Offy's so they outlawed it because it made too much smoke. There is a picture floating around somewhere of the car but I can't find it.

Bill Hoch

 

[moparbarn]

Saab's used to be 2 stoke V-4's, & Suzuki's first jeep style vehicle sold here had an OMC 2stroke V-4 in it. Not a "new" concept, but big block hipo outboards sound soooooo cool!! I love the style & visual flow of the pipes they crafted for it, but can you old racers imagine what it would sound like as a "stacker"?

 

[John Beardslee]

Hi Robin,

The 6's literally sounded like sirens across the water with mega phones, didn't run tuned pipes when I was running. I remember Dick O'Day, great competitor and good racer. The Saabs had a unique exhaust note and smoked a lot if I remember right.

Thanks, John

 

[moparbarn]

Yup John, as a kid in Miami I lived about 6-7 miles (as the crow flies) from Pelican Harbor Yacht Club. We could hear the stackers running at that distance, even including 1 mile of that distance inland! On our bikes or in our runabouts, we would haul butt to watch! A well tuned 2 stroke stretched out under a load is a beautiful sound to me, but stackers, with their straight bell megaphones had a surreal howling moan to 'em that was unique to ONLY stackers. Saab's, unfortunately had only a sick sounding blaaaattt to go with the clouds of 16:1 (crude) 2 stroke oil available back then. Now this OMC powered Volvo, with a modern powerplant, I assume digital ignition & possibly efi should be a tick better than the old Saab's - LOL!!

 

[Patrick Mulvany]

Hey John,

It was a long time ago but do you remember Jerry Simison from North Dakota?? He put a Looper in a snowmobile to run drags up there and had to get a 300 pound friend to drive it because he wasn't big enough to hold it down!!

Later!!

Pat

 

[dwilfong]

When I was running my Cagiva dirt bike. The guy that put the sleeve in it had a flat 6 two stroke eng in the corner of the shop.

Can't remember what he said it was but it looked like a air cooled Porsche eng but two stroke.

Thy ran it in a road race car.