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Last week, we introduced you to Robert “Jocko” Johnson, the desert-dwelling sculptor/cylinder head-porting master/would-be land speed record-breaker profiled in the May 5, 1997 issue of ...
Weird Met Awesome and This 3-Cylinder LS-Based Radial-Engine Meyers Manx Is Their Baby. A vision so strange and cool that it could only come from the combined brains of a dune buggy maker and an ...
Wright Aeronautical originally designed the Wright R-975 Whirlwind, which was a series of nine-cylinder, 975-cubic-inch radial aircraft engines, all manufactured between 1929 and the 1950s.
Horsepower: 2,500. Cubic inches: 430. Boost pressure: 45 psi. Cylinder pressure: Absolutely ridiculous. Running 6.80s at nearly 210 mph, today’s 275 drag radial ...
Russell Sutton is a man after our own heart. The craftsman has spent the last four years building a nine-cylinder radial engine using a smattering of Honda XR600 singles for his airboat. After a ...
The North-Lucas car was a 1922 two-door saloon shaped like a boat in an early attempt at streamlining. The other standout feature was the five-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, with a 1,460cc ...
The Napier is a complicated extrapolation of a basic opposed-piston engine. Your average “engine” has cylinders and pistons lined up with a cylinder head on top feeding the gas and air mixture.
New Garmin GI 275 Brings Engine Monitoring Tech to Vintage Aircraft Expanded compatibility adds 7-cylinder radial engines found in classic Cessna, Beech, WACO, and Howard models. Meg Godlewski ...
The TECHING 5 Cylinder Radial Engine Model Kit is essentially a 250-piece puzzle that, when finished, results in a fully functional radial engine like those found in storied aircraft of the 20th ...
DFX Moto’s “Radial Nerve” – a 7-cylinder radial-powered motorcycle that got to have some time in the spotlight at this year’s DGR rides. Media sourced from DFX Moto’s Facebook page. The Radial Nerve’s ...
A radial engine. Like you’d find in a vintage piston-powered aircraft. And moreover, it has GM LS1 DNA, too—inside the custom cylinder jugs and triangular crankcase are parts derived from the ...