- 1. Piston Envy (score: 1)
- Author: "Jerry Erbesfield" <jerbesfield@mindspring.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 09:06:10 -0400
- Hi Guys. Saw this on the Corvette list and thought it might be interesting to you. http://performanceunlimited.com/illustrations/mostpoweful_engine.html MG Content - Wonder if we could figure out a w
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00237.html (7,410 bytes)
- 2. Re: Piston Envy (score: 1)
- Author: Chris Thompson <ct-mg@cthompson.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 04:46:01 -0400
- While that boggles the mind, especially the 1660 gallons of fuel per hour, I guess I'd have to ask why? Huge HP, you would have to imagine unrealistic Torque, but at 101rpm. I've been racking my brai
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00239.html (7,735 bytes)
- 3. Re: Piston Envy (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul M." <rowman22001@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 07:07:17 -0700 (PDT)
- Alas, I don't think it would fit. But imagine the joys of putting the top down, finding a twisty mountain road, and rowing through the gearbox to wind that bugger up into the 100 RPM "red zone" again
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00240.html (7,652 bytes)
- 4. Re: Piston Envy (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Root <proot@iaces.com>
- Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 10:23:36 -0500
- It'd be a bit nose heavy, don't you think? I guess kind of like a 'C. :-) The Merchant Marine Museum up in Duluth has a bunch of cool old engines, with pictures of guys standing on pistons. The have
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00244.html (8,141 bytes)
- 5. RE: Piston Envy (score: 1)
- Author: "Marc Siegel" <smarc@abs.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 11:28:08 -0400
- That is just truly amazing. The perfomanceunlimited website is pretty interesting. I was poking around it and came across this http://performanceunlimited.com/illustrations/sparkplugs.html where they
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00246.html (7,730 bytes)
- 6. Re: Piston Envy (score: 1)
- Author: "mgamgb" <mgamgb@ihug.co.nz>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 18:02:55 +1200
- There is also a new 14 cyl version of the same engine ( I cant find the link at the moment ) 108,000 HP at normal rpm. (12 cyl one exceeds 100,000 hp in overspeed). Nice fit in a super tanker. I saw
- /html/mgs/2003-05/msg00270.html (7,853 bytes)
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