Guess the Engine
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Zip said:They didnt
There are 2 engines. You were just guessing the wrong one
Not according to several websites I wasn't....
As Chris1712's quote reckons:
When one page says it's a 503E, and another says it's a 3S-GTM, I made the obviously fatal error of going with what the manufacturer reckoned it was!
JRS said:Not according to several websites I wasn't....
As Chris1712's quote reckons:
When one page says it's a 503E, and another says it's a 3S-GTM, I made the obviously fatal error of going with what the manufacturer reckoned it was!
Im yet to see an officle quote from toyota saying what it was and if it was there mistake
Who wants to email them and find out
Chris1712 said:
The only thing that I know of that has that big a fan in that place is the Porsche flat 12 from the 917 and given that it's a closed car I'm going with a 917K
EDIT: Don't think it is now, the 917 doesn't have dampers as in the pic.
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Zip said:Im yet to see an officle quote from toyota saying what it was and if it was there mistake
Who wants to email them and find out
Toyota wouldn't fess up to a mistake even if you did ask them. They still haven't admitted that they screwed up on the cylinder heads for the 7MGE/GTE engines, and that must be coming on for 20 years ago now!
JRS said:
There might not be a mistake in the first place though. Just some websites not getting info first, those thing that Chris said were said on forums i think because i came across them on my travels. But i found a website selling the actual 503E engine itself
Chris1712 said:Ok heres a clue, the engine is german, the car was built in wycombe and was funded by crazy japs.
Fear i've given you too much there
Yup that and google is all I need - it's a Schuppen 962CR.
Now what threw me was that the exhausts are completely wrong for the engine. It's a bog standard 3.3litre twin turbo flat 6 from the 962 race car but in normal circustances the exhausts went straight out the sides in front of the rear wheels. I suppose the over the top and out the back routing is so that they could get the road legal silencers on it.
Edit: that's cheating Zip, I at least paraphrased and hand typed mine!
rpstewart said:
All i typed into wikipedia was. wycombe Engine Japanese
You can have the next engine though
Also this confuses me
Is that Really Australian because i would have thought that sounds Austrian
Edit: Well what doya know, he is Australian, He comes from a crap town though
Zip said:You can have the next engine though
Thanks, didn't know Vern Schuppen was an Aussie, he doesn't look it...
Anyhoo, I'll go for an easy one. Anyone who fails to get this gets taken outside and given a good slapping for having no soul
rpstewart said:Thanks, didn't know Vern Schuppen was an Aussie, he doesn't look it...
Anyhoo, I'll go for an easy one. Anyone who fails to get this gets taken outside and given a good slapping for having no soul
http://www.rpstewart.co.uk/ocuk/20060823/103_3003.jpg
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Is it a H16 engine?
Thats an Auto Union. (in rpstewarts post)
The engine was originally the V16 engine that Porsche had started designing earlier; when, starting in 1938, the maximum engine displacement for Grand Prix cars was limited to 3 litres for blown engines, it became a V12. It was originally designed to 6 litre specifications, but would start at 4,360 cc and 295 bhp.
The engine was originally the V16 engine that Porsche had started designing earlier; when, starting in 1938, the maximum engine displacement for Grand Prix cars was limited to 3 litres for blown engines, it became a V12. It was originally designed to 6 litre specifications, but would start at 4,360 cc and 295 bhp.