Watch a Fiat 28.5L engine being started for the first time since 1911

[whitehot1]

http://jalopnik.com/watch-a-28-5l-fiat-start-for-the-first-time-in-a-centur-1665309191

Scrool down to see the video of the engine being started.

That must have been really hard to turn that engine over to start on a cold morning.

 

[Pronto]

Holy crap! That's a beast!

 

[TLIMITED]

Where's Jay Leno?That's his kind of shit there.

 

[BEATAV8]

very interesting I will be sure to see that documentary

 

[trixdout]

IF you think about it, that's a 16 valve engine on a single cam. I would think that the engine's minimum size has a correlation with the valve stem thickness because there are only a certain number of lobes you can put on a single cam in a 16 valve 4 cylinder motor.

 

[novaderrik]

IF you think about it, that's a 16 valve engine on a single cam. I would think that the engine's minimum size has a correlation with the valve stem thickness because there are only a certain number of lobes you can put on a single cam in a 16 valve 4 cylinder motor.

the 95 Neon out in my garage has one cam and 16 valves in the same basic overhead cam configuration as the engine in the link... it's a bit smaller, tho...

anyways: what does valve stem thickness have to do with displacement?

 

[trixdout]

the 95 Neon out in my garage has one cam and 16 valves in the same basic overhead cam configuration as the engine in the link... it's a bit smaller, tho...

anyways: what does valve stem thickness have to do with displacement?

Wouldnt you need pretty thick valve stems with such huge displacement? Overall size of the valves would be bigger no? Spring pressures dont necessarily need to be high do they?
I went full retard, didn't i?

 

[dr_frankenstein]

Thats a serious engine right there.... kinda makes the 572s and 600 + cube engines look meeger!

 

[S10xGN]

Hell, each cylinder on that sumbitch has 435 cubic inches! That works out to somewhere in the neighborhood of an 8" bore x 8 5/8" stroke...

 

[SPOOLFOOL2]

Did you guys see it run?
https://grrc.goodwood.com/race/historic/video-28-5-litre-fiat-s76-attempting-land-speed-record

I really like the quote:
“First and second gear were okay, third gear called upon all of his experience as a racing driver, and fourth gear needed the courage of a hundred men!”