V24 Engine?

Talk about BLING! Even cadipacer would need a bigger shoehorn for this setup! What a plumbing nightmare!

 

My old '89 XJS with 12 cylinders was bad enough! I can't imagine 4 heads. How do you keep THAT in tune?

 

VERY CAREFULLY!

I was reading an old column on the Early Ford V8 site about reading vacuum gauges, and it struck me that maybe we're making compression engines upside backwards. They run on air that creates vacuum. Maybe the trick to cutting fuel usage and maintaining HP output is to have them output vacuum that moves the mechanicals, instead of compressed air.

No, I don't know how. But you wouldn't need a fuel to ignite the fuel. Right now, you have to ignite ethers to burn more oxygen (7:1 up to 11:1 ratios). You'd need a pump (which is what Internal Combustion Engines are - ICEs), with nothing to ignite. Not free energy, but less fuel usage.

We have an average PSI of 15 lbs on our bodies, but our engines aren't happy unless they're in the 14 to 20 lbs of vacuum range. How do we offset the difference and move a 2 ton object from 0 to 200 MPH, in 25 seconds (not drag-racing acceleration)?

It's like a District Attorney asking a hostile witness a question. Ask the right question and you'll get the right answer. Maybe we need to turn the engine into a vacuum machine.

If we travel for less, we'd do more of it, right?

 

Hey guy. Thats "TV Tommie Ivo!" He had several multi engined diggers in the sixties and seventies. Including a 4 engined four wheel drive aluminum bodied wagon! I think he got his name from a tv show he was on? My father Tony "Fish" Castaneda had a couple of multiengined rail jobs when I was a kid and he took em all over the country when he wasn't driving the "Warlord" altered.

 

Yes thats a hand full, no cheap gas for him!

 

TV Tommy was one of the original 'Mousekateers'.
He got to play with Annette!!

 

TV Tommy was quite a well know figure in racing and hot rods. He was always smiling. I suppose if I got to play with Annette I'd been smiling too!

 

Oh yeah! Four Buick Nailheads and all-wheel drive!

 

It's two Buicks, so 16 cylinders and Tommy Ivo

 

I found two of these in an old warehouse I was tearing down here in Portland. Tell me what you think.

 

Here is one of them. Mind the photo. t This was taken a while ago. The other is in pieces in my garage. I am going to do some homework and put it together. I need a camshaft for the dissembled one. Everything else is wrapped in brown was paper and cosmoline. I've seen a few of these in hotrods on the internet and love the look. But for the most part, I am just sitting on them. Anyway, give me some of your views and ideas.

 

WOW....those ARE 2 GM 6 bangers hooked up. I have never seen one of those and, even at my young age, I never knew that they existed!

 

WHOA!! I thought you meant you found 2 POSTERS in that warehouse!
So...they made a V12 and someone hooked up 2 of those?? Man...still in cosmoline! I sure would have had those in a car long ago!! I would have kept them separate and had 2 V12's.

 

They weren't particulary good for their intended role, very thirsty I understand.
They are great fodder for hot rods now as they are so bizzare. A fellow local to me builds some of those truely strange rat rod looking things with strange combinations of parts. I hesitate to call them rat rods as his engineering is superb and also the quality of his work. They LOOK thrown together but they are not.
There is an old COE cab FS locally too.
unkldave you have PM

 

This is a single V-12 gmc block. Not two V-6's It uses the same V-6 heads but the block and crank and cam are all one piece units. It supposedly made around 625 ft lb torque @ 2400 rpm. YouTube vids showing one revving 5000rpm Pretty cool. I haven't revved mine that high yet. I am going to send the disasemmbled one to a shop to get it balanced and maybe figure a way to use different rods and pistons. The originals are slugs. The cylinder heads are not the greatest either. they flow about 190 CFM but it is all twists and turns. Not exactly performance friendly. The one in the photo is going to Wisconsin.