JR Competition has a couple special offers for hot rodders and performance engine owners

The "identify that V8" challenge is on, I got 16 of 19

http://www.americantorque.com/game/60s-V8-engine-ID/

I missed the above, the Stude 289 R1, and the last one which is the worst photo and not in the original car.. it's in a hot rod, and that threw me off

It'd be cool to know how you do, and believe me I did guess on a couple, based on color, valve covers, or most likely to be multi carbed of the choices offered.

Or play these other games

Found on http://autoculture.org/

least known way to score a Ferrari engine

Buy a Lancia Stratos. It had a 2.4 liter V6 Ferrari engine. Bertone coachbuilt the bodies.

It won the World Rally Championship 3 times.

They only made 500 for public sale

The Lancia 037 won the World Rally Championship, beating the Audi Quattro, and was the last 2 wheel drive to win the championship

The Lancia Fima 8.32 had the Ferrari V8 from the Ferrari Mondail and 308 . It was a 3.0 liter though, and he body was by PininFarina

Or if someone should stumble over a lost ASA 1000 Gt. Not going to happen, they were very very rare and were only built from 1963 to 1966. They cost 40% more than the nearest competitive car, the Alfa Giulia Sprint

VW engines identification info

REMOVED FROM MANUAL: TECHNICAL DATA FOR SERVICES IN THE WORKSHOP - VW OF BRAZIL - 1979 EDITION

POSTED BY THE END OF THE TOPIC Ednei:

GAS-Gasoline / Alcohol-ALC

BA - 1600 - BRASILIA (1976)
BD - 1600 BEETLE GAS
BG - 1600 GAS AND KOMBI KOMBI EXP
BJ - 1300 BEETLE GAS
BK - 1300 LAC BEETLE BRASILIA
BM - 1300 LAC GOL
BN - BRAZIL GAS 1600
BV - 1600 GAS VARIANT
BX - 1600 LAC KOMBI KOMBI EXP
BY - 1300 GOL GAS
BZ - 1600 GAS VAN
UF - 1600 BEETLE GAS
UG - 1600 GAS VAN
UJ - 1600 LAC BEETLE
UK - 1600 LAC VAN

Motors above 90

UFA - 1600 BEETLE GAS
UJA - 1600 LAC BEETLE
UGA - 1600 GAS VAN CARAT

This info was pulled from, and only a small part of engine id post at http://carrosehistorias.blogspot.com/2010/08/numeracao-de-motor-boxer.html

great stuff on Rat Rods Rule

just a sample, see the rest at http://ratrodsrule.tumblr.com/

people wonder what the largest displacement factory car engine was, here's the biggest piston engine, and the 2nd n 3rd biggest that I've come across

1910 Fiat S76, the "Beast of Turin", 28.4 liter engine that is about 1730 cubic inches, 4 times as big as my 426 cu in Max Wedge. Try and imagine 4 hemis, 3/4's a hemi, or 6 of the hemi cylinders per cylinder in this aircraft engined straight 6 cylinder. Yeah, that is huge, but made relatively little power or torque because engines weren't as understood and developed in the 1910's.

An outrageous creation that debuted in the early 1910s, the Tipo (Type) S76 was built by the Fiat factory in Turin presumably to break the world's Land Speed Record, which then stood at 125.95 mph. The chassis was a flimsy 1907/08 Fiat production unit with a Tipo S76DA six-cylinder airship engine of 28.4 liters (1,730 cu. in.), which developed 300 hp at 1,900 rpm.

Standing about five feet high at the radiator cap, the frighteningly top-heavy car was referred to as The Beast of Turin. Except for a brief appearance in England at the Brooklands racecourse, where it was timed at about 90 mph, it never made an impact on any records and was returned to the continent to be lost during the confusion of World War I. http://www.airportjournals.com/Display.cfm?varID=0611015

The Beast of Turin’s engine cylinder's were so large, a man could stick his head in one. When it drove down the road, flames shot 10 feet out of the exhaust.

Count Louis Zborowski, a racer and racing patron, was incredibly wealthy and his stable included a 1914 GP Mercedes and a 1919 Ballot, and he raced a Bugatti at Indianapolis. He returned home with a new American Miller race car.

Chitty I was created in 1921 after Zborowski obtained a war reparations Maybach aero engine from a Gotha bomber. The 23-liter (1,409 cu. in.) six had four overhead valves per cylinder. At a modest speed of 1,500 rpm, it put out 300 hp. The chassis was an old Mercedes that had been lengthened and topped by a primitive aerodynamic body. To show it was all in fun, the exhaust pipe ran the length of the body and culminated with a turned-up tip with conical shield.

1912 Mercedes with a 21.5 liter engine, only 4 cylinders and was already posted at
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/if-you-have-wondered-what-largest.html

24 butterflies, 8 blowers, and makes 3400 hp worth of Nitrous powered grin... Mike Harrah's Detroit Diesel, does it make you feel a bit awed?

180 photo gallery of the intake and engine going together here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/learaviator/sets/72157623774941005


learned about it on http://www.autoblog.hu/videok/video_24_hengeres_dizelmotor.html

not much info on the www yet, but I did find that the guy is a millionaire real estate developer, and owns the biggest of the Blastolene cars (can't recall the name, it's the one with the PT boat Packard engine) and this titan engine is going into a Peterbuilt 359

Double Trouble, the '27 model T roadster made of eye magnet material

For a gallery of really good photography (hell of a lot better than I can do at a car show!) http://doubletroublehotrod.com/index.html with the photography of Anthony Mair

Inquistive guy huh?