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roverman
Art Gertz
Winchester, CA.
(3188 posts)

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04/24/2009 11:02AM

Main British Car:
74' Jensen Healy, 79 Huff. GT 1, 74 MGB Lotus 907,2L

RV8 x 2
Posted by: roverman
Date: August 07, 2019 12:26PM

As in V16, yeah, I know-huh. Scaring-up the parts and benchtop engineering. Not like freight-train dragster ! Shortest, reasonable length combo. No mods to blocks, dry-sump and accessories are gear driven from between the two blocks. One piece girdle of .75" thick 7075 T6 and one piece cast alum. pan. Rear of front crank broached to 1 3/8'-10, spline. Snout of rear crank, male splined to fit.
For more gray hair and beyond, Art.


88v8
Ivor Duarte
Gloucestershire UK
(1041 posts)

Registered:
02/11/2010 04:29AM

Main British Car:
1974 Land Rover Lightweight V8

Re: RV8 x 2
Posted by: 88v8
Date: August 09, 2019 05:05AM

Like this?
[bangshift.com]
So that vould be a W16.

Well, easier perhaps with 3D printing?

Hook it to a TH400.

And it's not as if you have anything else to do lol

Ivor


joe_padavano
Joseph Padavano
Northern Virginia
(156 posts)

Registered:
02/15/2010 03:49PM

Main British Car:
1962 F-85 Deluxe wagon 215 Olds

Re: RV8 x 2
Posted by: joe_padavano
Date: August 09, 2019 10:06AM

So that LS-based, not-really-a-W16 (despite what the article may say) still isn't running now four years after the piece was written?

Just sayin'


roverman
Art Gertz
Winchester, CA.
(3188 posts)

Registered:
04/24/2009 11:02AM

Main British Car:
74' Jensen Healy, 79 Huff. GT 1, 74 MGB Lotus 907,2L

Re: RV8 x 2
Posted by: roverman
Date: August 09, 2019 02:12PM

It seems as if my fellow BV8 folks are lacking confidence of completion ? Insipient negatism,(possibly earned), NOT carved in granite ! There is a chance, I might actually do this. Building a bucket, has been on my,( ) list, for long time. One good reason for build is RV8 based, will prove merits of BW 3040 trans. Onward, Art.


roverman
Art Gertz
Winchester, CA.
(3188 posts)

Registered:
04/24/2009 11:02AM

Main British Car:
74' Jensen Healy, 79 Huff. GT 1, 74 MGB Lotus 907,2L

Re: RV8 x 2
Posted by: roverman
Date: August 09, 2019 07:08PM

Big thanks to Lenco for selling me a scrap input shaft. 3/8"-10. SBB and RV8 have a 1 3/8" snout=handy. Art.


88v8
Ivor Duarte
Gloucestershire UK
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1974 Land Rover Lightweight V8

Re: RV8 x 2
Posted by: 88v8
Date: August 10, 2019 05:28AM

It'll be mighty wide.
Going into a Galaxie? Or another equally wide boat? Or a boat?
At least with a Sniper you won't have to worry about a special intake adaptor to level up the carbs.

I'm sure that we have every confidence with sufficient people and budget and time you could do this.

Presumably 2 x 215s.

Ivor


joe_padavano
Joseph Padavano
Northern Virginia
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1962 F-85 Deluxe wagon 215 Olds

Re: RV8 x 2
Posted by: joe_padavano
Date: August 11, 2019 09:12AM

So basically you want to build a motor with the same displacement as a big block V8 but with more than twice the complexity, more than twice the internal friction, and occupying considerably more installed volume (and likely delivering considerably less net output).

Knock yourself out. Different isn't always better.



roverman
Art Gertz
Winchester, CA.
(3188 posts)

Registered:
04/24/2009 11:02AM

Main British Car:
74' Jensen Healy, 79 Huff. GT 1, 74 MGB Lotus 907,2L

Re: RV8 x 2
Posted by: roverman
Date: August 15, 2019 11:19AM

Ivor, V doesn't = W in this build. Not in anyone's Galaxy.


88v8
Ivor Duarte
Gloucestershire UK
(1041 posts)

Registered:
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Main British Car:
1974 Land Rover Lightweight V8

Re: RV8 x 2
Posted by: 88v8
Date: August 15, 2019 06:33PM

Oho!
Didn't read the OP properly.
End to end.
Caramba.

That's an awful lot of torque going through the nose of the rear crank.

Ivor


roverman
Art Gertz
Winchester, CA.
(3188 posts)

Registered:
04/24/2009 11:02AM

Main British Car:
74' Jensen Healy, 79 Huff. GT 1, 74 MGB Lotus 907,2L

Re: RV8 x 2
Posted by: roverman
Date: August 20, 2019 12:49PM

1 3/8- 10 spline holds "about" 5k hp. ?


88v8
Ivor Duarte
Gloucestershire UK
(1041 posts)

Registered:
02/11/2010 04:29AM

Main British Car:
1974 Land Rover Lightweight V8

Re: RV8 x 2
Posted by: 88v8
Date: August 21, 2019 02:18PM

Mmmm, but it puts torque into the crank nose. Which was not designed as a torque receiver.
Maybe it's OK.
Part of the journey.

Ivor


waterbucket
Philip Waterman
England
(112 posts)

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07/30/2011 01:08PM

Main British Car:
1972 MGB GT

Re: RV8 x 2
Posted by: waterbucket
Date: September 01, 2019 05:05PM

The Fittipaldi brothers (Emerson and Wilson?) raced a VW beetle powered by two engines joined end on end in Brazil in the late sixties. Both went on to be F1 drivers. Was that the first or only flat 8?


joe_padavano
Joseph Padavano
Northern Virginia
(156 posts)

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Main British Car:
1962 F-85 Deluxe wagon 215 Olds

Re: RV8 x 2
Posted by: joe_padavano
Date: September 03, 2019 05:32AM

"Was that the first or only flat 8?"

Not even close.


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