variety of cool engines

Ford Motor Company, High performance engine decals, 406 and 390 Cubic Inch Displacement

Caterpiller powered hot rod!

thanks Mike!

700 Hp, 199 cu in, AMC Rambler straight 6, 105 lbs of turbo boost, and all in a 1967 Indy 500 race car. Only Barney Navarro.

 

1968 GTX 440 factory detail photos in this months Muscle Car Review

From Frank Badalson, http://www.rogergibsonautorestoration.com/aboutus.htm  partner of Roger Gibson, (Mopar restoration expert) is a photo gallery of all the minutiae of the unique aspects in the Muscle Car Review magazine Dec 2012 issue

Shelby crate engine prototype, 427 Hemi

those damn Chevy engine reference codes I've never learned

L36 390 hp 427
L48
L68 400 hp 427
L71 435 hp 427
L72 425 hp 427
L78 425 hp 396
L79 350 hp 327
L88 480 to 560 hp 427 only 60 pounds heavier than the L79 (327) but with 130 more hp, it cost $950 more
L89 aluminum heads on the L88 only 16 sets made
the 36 gallon fuel tanks for the coupe were only made in 2 corvettes

L84 mechanical fuel injected 327  360 hp
LT1 370 hp 350 with solid lifters and a carb until 1972, then 255 hp

ZL1 was a special L88, in 1967 20 were made, in1968 80 were made, in 1969 116 were made. 69 went to Gibb Chevy for Camaros, and Duntov got 2 put into customers cars, 1 for his developement mule, and 3 in engineering cars

ZR1 stands for Zora Racer 1.0 (1970-71) this was a drivetrain package with the LT1 engine, M22 trans

ZR2 Zora Racer 2.0 (1972)

LS5 365 hp 454 (1970-71)
LS6 425 hp 454 (1970-71)

8 of the ZR1 LT1 packages were made
12 of the ZR2 LS6 packages were made
Both were heater and radio delete for racing

If anyone knows a source for more of these codes and what they meant in simple terms, please email me a llink at jbohjkl@yahoo.com 

1935 Alfa Romeo, bi motor

found somewhere on http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com

3000 still photos, 11 months, one video. It is killer. An engine gets torn down and rebuilt.

Thanks to Andrew of Trips and Turns http://www.tripsandturns.com for sharing with all of us!

close up and thorough gallery of the Smith Master Valve Special, designed and built by Harry Lewis

 I don't remember seeing friction shocks chromed before

 Army gauges, very cool.

previous post was brief and based on a Auto Enthusiast Magazine article about the Justice Brothers Museum http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/02/auto-enthusiast-march-2012-has-article.html

Offenhauser engine, built by Meyer and Drake. A thing of beauty in design, power and performance. (I've read about 700-800 hp offy's)

the Cyclemaster motor

Found on http://southsiders-mc.blogspot.com/ I believe

The above is from a Blog devoted to the Cyclemaster http://cyclemaster.wordpress.com/ thanks for the link from Vincent!

The Salt 2 Salt Studebaker set some records at Bonneville this year, with an interesting 182 cu in v8

photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/70716191@N00/sets/72157627367551319/ where they have a gallery of Bonneville photos or go to their home page (the home of the 1953 Studebaker coupe that established the records in: XO/BGC, XO/BFALT, XF/BFALT, XF/BGALT, F/CGALT, and F/CFALT )  for links to many years of Bonneville galleries http://www.salt2salt.hutman.net/

The trick of getting such a small displacement is using a tiny one year only block, and the crank from another model year to get the right numbers.

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