The Car or Thing that gets you Inspired Thread

[WABIT]

[16v_kid]

[WABIT]

wow... pistons..... care to share whats so inspiring about them?

[16v_kid]

The finish on them. I got a chance to see them in real life and hold them in my hand to. Compared them to other pistons as well and no were near Mahle's finish.

Also, the design.

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[Preen59]

The finish on them. I got a chance to see them in real life and hold them in my hand to. Compared them to other pistons as well and no were near Mahle's finish.

Also, the design.

Sorry dude but I can smash that.

Chrysler 392 HEMI blown nitro pistons made by CP..



Pistons are pistons.. Now back to our regular programming...

The AA/FD of Tim Beebe/John "Zookeeper" Mulligan. Lions Drag Strip (Longbeach, CA), 1968.

[Peter Jones]

Pistons.... Meh!

The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel ship engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today. The Aioi Works of Japan’s Diesel United, Ltd built the first engines and is where some of these pictures were taken.
It is available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines. These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships. Ship owners like a single engine/single propeller design and the new generation of larger container ships needed a bigger engine to propel them.
The cylinder bore is just under 38″ and the stroke is just over 98″.
The engine weighs in at 2,300 tons and is capable of delivering 109,000 horsepower.

[MattyT]

Have seen that engine before, I wonder what it takes to get it started :O

[Mr Messy]

THat's just awesome.

So is this (I love F40s)


Also Preendog, you must see this.

http://speedhunters.com/archive/2010/01/11/museums-gt-gt-the-nhra-museum-revisited.aspx

[gareth_oau]

Have seen that engine before, I wonder what it takes to get it started :O

here it is being started now Matty:

[16v_kid]

lol ..

[Preen59]

Also Preendog, you must see this.
http://speedhunters.com/archive/2010...revisited.aspx

F40's are pretty awesome..

Thanks for the link dude.. I went to the museum at Pomona in 2007. Just amazing.

[Mrk_Mickey]

n00b question, is the winder on the front of that old car something to wind compression up or something? I've never known what it does

[static1800]

it's a crank handle, it starts the car. This was before starter motors

[Jarred]

This actually gets me inspired!

If I had a mk 2 2 door, this is what I'd be doing!