Very Cool Race Engine Site

Post by **DJpowerHaus** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:06 pm

Here is a site I think Matt found first. It has pictures of lots of stuff but what I'm really getting a boner over is all the '80s F1 turbo engine pictures.

Enjoy:
http://www.gurneyflap.com/index.html

tumuchNOS · Post by **tumuchNOS** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 1:22 am

The original gurney eagle was restored by a friend of mines shop here in Reno (the same car you can see in the movie Grand Prix). I think the motor was a V16

. In the lobby they have a working turbo Al Unser car with a very big turbo on it. If any of you clowns are interested I can post some crazy pics if you guys are into the whole vintage road race stuff.

Old Colt · Post by **Old Colt** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:55 pm

I think the motor was a V16

That engine is an H16.

tumuchNOS · Post by **tumuchNOS** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:06 pm

Old Colt wrote:
I think the motor was a V16
That engine is an H16.

You may be right. I did see it apart and on the dyno and it looked like a V16 to me, but I will snap a shot of it next time I am there to make sure we are talking about the same car (long blue tube looking thing). I heard the story about how they developed it by making 1 Cylinder motors at first to optimise the design. They had to do that because of budget before they made the big motor, as related to me anyways. Pretty cool car actually, definatly has its own sound.
The owner of the place has a pretty bad ass Lola with a 500 hp 3 litre cosworth V8. He's taken it to the vintage 24 hrs of lemans a couple of times, and usually does very well with it.
I took some hot laps in a 58 (?) D type jag (inline 6 cylinder with suprising power) around a course up here with him and he scared the crap out of me. You road racers are nuts

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