1923 Bugatti (Veyron)
carguy123 wrote:
What is this?
Doc Brown wrote:carguy123 wrote:
"What the hell is that?"
It's a blown hemi running in the 4cylinder blown class.
Doc Brown wrote:carguy123 wrote:
Looks like a Lakester at Bonneville.
I'm not sure of my engines, but it looks like some kind of Hemi, but missing a head. Something like F, G, or H- L. Probably more F, since the engine tends to be massive.
Now for something completely, and unfortunately, different:
Nice flame job!
Hydrogen powered and yes those are the bottles on the side.
carguy123 wrote: Hydrogen powered and yes those are the bottles on the side.
Anybody else see this and think "This doesn't look right without Gurney bubble?"
Smokey Yunick
Karacticus wrote: Anybody else see this and think "This doesn't look right without Gurney bubble?"
Not me. I was lusting for GT40's before I knew what lust was and before Gurney ever sat in one.
Doc Brown wrote:carguy123 wrote:
Somebody only had enough money for one Ardun head?
Wait... no exhaust... Ardun headed flatty running on only four cylinders?
Wait, the head bolt pattern is all wrong... Four cylindered V8 running in a displacement class?
Salt flat racing is weird sometimes. I remember a story of a guy who blew up spectacularly, looked at the class records, disabled all but two cylinders in what was left of his engine, and went for the new displacement's record.
In reply to Knurled:
I read that was a hemi being run in a 4 cylinder class. It was built like that on purpose.
In reply to Chadeux:
Indeed, and I know where to find people who have the experience to balance such a beast. And other people who will say it's better to run two inner and two outer cylinders instead of sharing a bank. And other people who will argue that the irregular firing order makes it easier to accelerate on a loose surface like salt. And twelve pages later it somehow turned into a thread about why old Hemis had the same size intake and exhaust valves.
Anyway, I still kind of want to get a blown up LS1/LS2 so I can run half of it as a large four cylinder.
Knurled wrote: In reply to Chadeux: Indeed, and I know where to find people who have the experience to balance such a beast. And other people who will say it's better to run two inner and two outer cylinders instead of sharing a bank. And other people who will argue that the irregular firing order makes it easier to accelerate on a loose surface like salt. And twelve pages later it somehow turned into a thread about why old Hemis had the same size intake and exhaust valves. Anyway, I still kind of want to get a blown up LS1/LS2 so I can run half of it as a large four cylinder.
Here, or is there somewhere else this cool?
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