Now we know eBay can be expensive............

hhhmmmmm.....surely a V8 needs at least 16 valves .... 2 per piston , , , methinks he might have a spot of bother starting it with only 8.

V8 2 stroke with inlet valves and exhaust ports?

P.

Running away from the scary concep

Detriot Diesel? Will sound nice anyway!

In message , Paul S. Brown writes

You mean similar the old 'Roots' complete with blower?

I dunno, but a 3.5V8 with a supercharger sounds like a nice idea.

Alex

On or around Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:02:33 +0000 (UTC), "SimonJ" enlightened us thusly:

why stop there, why not fit a deltic?

My office is just adjacent to the railway at Keighley & we get a good few deltics through every day - make a fuckload of noise!!!!!

Nige

ooooh eeerrr local or what ? I live on the moors overlooking Bingley.

In article , Austin Shackles writes

And set up to push from the back all the way, so that the train doesn't come unglued in the middle...

Nice anorak, BTW.

Regards,

Simonm.

NOW you're talking! Two Napier "Deltic" 18 cylinder 18-25 engines, each producing 1650bhp @1500rpm!! God knows what the torque is, never seen it quoted. The number would be so large it'd be incomprehensible, I'd imagine! Something vaguely on topic.... ermmm......ahhh..... yep, wonder what gearbox and halfshafts would fit a 110 that could handle the torque.......

Badger. Anorak on back-order.

deltics through every day -

good few each way every day.

thunder by! Just as you think

Wasn't there a later class of engine that looked the same as a deltic

- the same shape, anyway, but ran an ordinary diesel? I can't remember which class as I'm not an anorak and I can't find my book at the moment

Alex

Sure are Austin, they are deffo deltics!!!

That's the ones, they set off (oddly enough) Land Rover car alarm in the car park next door. I'll take a snap of one, they pas about twice a day!

Nige

I actually live in Thackley, I work in Keighley!

On or around Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:30:33 GMT, SpamTrapSeeSig enlightened us thusly:

nice little air museum up at Caernarfon airport (ex bomber station) wherein a snapped a picture of (IIRC) a Bristol Hercules, 14-cylinder double-bank radial, anyway, about 6ft diameter...

I pass Thackley everyday (twice) , I work in Bramley

There is a nice animation of the cranks, rods and pistons in the Deltic here