favorite engines of all time ?

[Brian Skeoch]

Mine are the following

Judd V 10
Offenhauser 4 cylinder turbo ( Champ car 1973 )
Lotus V8 twin turbo
Alfa V 8 turbo Champ Car 1990
Ferrari V12 Columbo
Cosworth DFV
Gurney Westlake V 12
Novi special ( widow maker ) Indy car, Duke Nalon
Alfa dual blown inline 8

need I say more ?

[Autocross7]

I'd have to say, in no particular order...

Ferrari boxer 12 (great sound)
Cosworth DFV
BMC 1275cc I4
910 Lotus 2.2 (yes... I like it - the 4 that sounds bigger)
Do not know the motor designation, but the motor in the Porsch 917 was awsome. Sounds like a really pissed Banshee coming up from hell!
1.8ltr Mazda I4
Mazda RB13 Rotary
Pratt and Whitney JF35
Continental IO-360


Some not too impressive, but it is what I like...

Cameron

[Brian Skeoch]

I should have included the X180 R motor. that thing pulls like a freight train yet kicks like a mule.

165 mph at the back stretch at Road Atlanta in a 4 cylinder .. .

Lotus.. nothing more powerful, yet nothing less violent.

[dpr59]

OK the obvious....Lotus 912 slant 4


Then..

The Matra and BRM 12 cylinder engines of the mid/late 70's

Listening to the sound as they climbed Pilgrims Rise at Brands.
Under full load, wonderful.

[WayneB]

BRM V16 (this will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE

BRM H16

Cosworth DFV

Lamborghini V12

Rolls-Royce Merlin V12

Ferrari Dino V6

Loads more, those sprang to mind quickly.:)

http://index.hu/cikkepek/totalcar/blogok/belsoseg/2007_04_27_h16.jpg

[eurosport]

hard to add to great lists...

as a family, I prefer the 13BREW and 20BREW wankers, wish I could have been at Le Mans in 91, the sound of a racing 4-rotor is seriously unholy...

F100-PW-220, there have been bigger and better since but this is the only one I've had the awesome pleasure to "ride": full afterburner flyby= sound of freedom :cool:

9xx, nuff said

Cossie BDx (esp. BDTE :eek:)

+1 on the Merlin, star of best scene in "Empire of the Sun" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=tztl6ZEjrw4)

E.

[WayneB]

+1 on the Merlin, star of best scene in "Empire of the Sun" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=tztl6ZEjrw4)

E.

Been lucky enough to be standing in proximity to the Canadian Lancaster when it was over at CFB Trenton a few years ago, as they started it up and warmed the engines. 4 Merlins running at the same time sounds like pure armageddon, spitting fire and belching smoke!

Loved it.:)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Lancaster_MkX_Canadian_Warplane_Heritage_Museum_1. jpg/800px-Lancaster_MkX_Canadian_Warplane_Heritage_Museum_1. jpg

Also like the sound of gas turbine and jet engines spooling up.

(probably as result at watching to much batman as a kid!

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdu0xRmq3AY

[Brian Skeoch]

awesome.... is that a spitfire in the background ?? next to a B25 ?

Brian

[Brian Skeoch]

I forgot to mention the Porsche 917 / 30 flat 12 engine. 1200 HP.. in a chassis that weighs only 80 pounds..

at 140 mph, the thing would still spin the tires of stomped on.

I believe Donahue set a speed record at Dega in the thing at 221 or so MPH ?

[WayneB]

Yes you are dead right, a Spitfire and a B25 Mitchell bomber are part of the Canadian Warplane Heritage collection (and the Lancaster) , and are airworth /flown regularly out of Hamilton airport where they are based.

The Porsche 917 is the only Porsche I really give a damn about, I was at the Glen a couple of years ago when Bobby Rahal turned up with the awesome "hippy car" 917 that he bought with the severance package that he got from the Jaguar formula one team.:money:

http://www.gt-eins.de/Bilder/CER04/Porsche917_31.jpg

[dpr59]

Been lucky enough to be standing in proximity to the Canadian Lancaster when it was over at CFB Trenton a few years ago,


Saw this at Toronto Hamilton earler this year.
We were parking the hire thing and it climbed out at about 150ft with all the taps open.....

Very very unexpected and utterly brilliant.

Then later this summer....

Scarborough. Sat in cafe having fish and chips.

From outside the unmistakable sound on a Merlin.

Popped outside, leaving Sue to order dessert, and yes a Spitfire doing circles of the harbour.

Guess it was from the Yorkshire Air Museum.

Sue thought it made that you could recognise an engine/plane from the sound. But it was a Merlin after all.

[WayneB]

I know exactly what you mean, that Lanc did a tree level pass over CFB Trenton 3 weeks ago , and I knew straight away what the sound was and rushed outside to feast my eyes(and ears).

I can have a flight in it for a minimum $10,000 donation!:(

They were built in Canada by Victory Aircraft (Avro) in an hangar that is still in use at Toronto Airport (my dad worked in it in the late 50's)

http://www.lancastermuseum.ca/photos/p_lanccanadian1.jpg

[Brian Skeoch]

now that is cool.