This has got to be a first
http://positiveapeindex.blogspot.com...nd-clever.html

 

haha....thats crazy.

 

that is insane......i cant wait to see what this car is like when its running

 

Someone beat you to it:

http://forums.bradbarnett.net/showthread.php?t=60155

 

story of my life....

apparently mine was noticed first though

 

No, it wasn't. I looked at his post first but didn't reply to it. That's how I knew he beat you to it!

 

*sigh*

 

I replied in the other.. but man... that car

I had people sending me repeated thanks over IM, JUST for forwarding that link to them. lol

 

He should race Jay Leno's Tank Car when it's done...

 

Wonder what it pulls for handling Gs??



And they say the GT500 is front heavy.

 

Even if it could barely make it's way around a corner, do you know how badass that thing would look and sound?!? Crazy!!

 

And it's a Ford . . . in a Ford!!

 

The engine is all aluminum and it still weighs in at 950lbs!

 

Well it is a 1,100 cubic inch (18.0 liter) engine... one would guess it to be fairly heavy!

 

...I see this, and think one thing to myself

God bless the blue blooded American Geniuses who had this idea

 

Yeah, it's heavy. But it isn't too bad and isn't that much heavier than an old, cast iron 426 Hemi which weighes in at 800lb+ if I recall. Food for thought.

I know...novel ain't it. And the shame of it is that Ford has so many truly interesting engines. Possibly more than any other car maker IMO. Along with this 'rare' example we have....the 427SOHC, the Australian Turbo Inline-6 engines (rare on our shores anyway), the DOHC Cosworth I4's and V6's from Europe (again, rare on our shores), old Lincoln V12's, DOHC Indy 289 V8's.....the list goes on and on. Yes, some of these are expensive, but when some of these guys spend 100k on a street rod and cram another LS1 into it I have to ask why bother?

For those with less cash, there are still interesting motors to harken back to. The old MEL big blocks were, and are for that matter, under-rated and not something you see every day. They were essentially an FE top end on a bottom end that could support more cubic inches. They're cheap as dirt these days too. Cleveland heads on a Windsor smallblock are still cool too, even if the old 'Clevor' isn't seen as much anymore. And of course, we have the 351 Cleveland itself which was a sweetheart of a heavy breather. Again, the list goes on and on.

 

On Discovery HD Theater they have a show called "Tank Overhaul" and they were rebuilding a Sherman tank with the Ford GAA V8. It was pretty cool watching them tear down and rebuild that beast.

 

I love this particular engine, always have, but honestly even as big as it is I always assumed that it was even bigger and it never occured to me that this could be made to fit into anything resembling a car, even if this extreme is taking libetrties with that term. Umlike this example I would prefer to find something in which the engine could actually be made to fit under the hood, even if it requires a bulge to do so.

IMO a far better place for such a large, heavy beast would seem to be Ford pickup or even a classic Lincolns. For the former the tank heritage and huge cubes create a theme that meshes well with a pickup. Huge cubes work for the latter too, but in this case it's the DOHC heads and aluminum construction that complete the theme.

Also, I wonder if this could be coerced under the hood of something like a Mustang through clever implementation of items like dry-sump oiling and more drastic changes like shortening the engines deck height or skirting. It is huge, but it would be interesting to see how 'small' it could reasonably be made.