Posted on 12/05/2014 7:43:00 PM PST by virgil283
"This thundering thing is the Beast of Turin. The Fiat S76 land speed record car. It's a behemoth, nearly as tall as a man, with a four-cylinder engine displacing a staggering 28.5 liters. In 1911 that massive engine propelled the Fiat S76 to 135-mph, an extraordinary accomplishment at the time,.....
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“Uh hello, is this Pep Boys? Yeah I’m looking for a head-gasket for a 1914 Fiat....what? Yeah, it’s the 28.5 liter... OK I’ll hold .... “
Does anyone know how large those WWII Packard V-12s they used in PT boats were?
Is the warranty still valid? Seriously , though I love the way things were overengineered back in the day. I can leave my ‘55 chevy in a dairy barn for 5 months, come back- throw in a freshly charged battery, spritz some carb cleaner/ ether in it and she fires right up. That stovebolt 6 (first produced in 1929, and used in one form or another until 1980) just refuses to die.
CC
don’t know the cubic inches but a PT boat had four of them.
Mmm-m sweet
Rabin
It wouldn't surprise me if they didn't have a little guy in the back that could whip out a head gasket and assign a part number. ;)
/johnny
Very cool.
Back in the days when you could work on them.
I thought it was two.
So as far back as 1911, Tony was Fixing It Again?
27 litres or 1,650 cubic inches. Your mileage may vary.
CC
I cannot imagine hand cranking an engine that size. I have almost had joints pulled out of their sockets cranking a VF4D Wisconsin on a Lincoln SA200 welder.
The bruises that crank would leave were impressive.
Love the Barracuda in the background.
There was an ad for several PT boats for sale last year stating they were without the 4 engines......that what I was going by....Maybe wrong.
Well, one source says 2490 cubic inches. Three engines and 1200 to 1500 HP.
Back around 1960 my best friend had to plow his parents field with a Farmall Cub. It looked like a large tractor only a bit smaller.
One day he got it stuck in a hole and it would not pull itself out. He got out the hand crank which you had to use to start it, and literally cranked it out of the hole by hand.
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