MH's ideal coil and voltage question

[Grumage]

Bill wrote.

" Yes, but Don Garlits never used one of those...it was always the Chrysler 426 hemi for him, ha ha.  Those were the days, 425 H.P. stock right from the factory and over 10,000 H.P. when modified.

Bill "

Dear Bill.

Surely a typo ?? 10,000 HP ?? Or were they biddy little horses needing 10 to make one good old British " Shire " ?   

Cheers Grum.

[tinman]

Dear Brad.

Ever heard of the " Petter Super Scavenge " Diesel engine?

This opened a whole new world of, dare I mention the " R " and " T " word? Particularly in the design of exhaust systems.

Cheers Grum.

No,not heard of them. We had the Peterbilt engines in some of our trucks though
But my fav has always been the Detroit V8 turbo fed supercharged 2 stroke . There is nothing that sounds like them working at full noise.


Brad

[ramset]

OOHHH
Now you touched a nerve...

the 2 stroke Detroit with a Blower[only came that way] is an acquired taste...a sound which sends Kiddies scurrying for
cover !

I've been staring at a wee 471  in my Buddies toasted Dozer for quite some time trying to justify
hacking it out and putting it in something...

anything !!

we use to have A 16 Cyl Detroit Genset [two Blowers] running the crushing plant and 100 HP electric motors.
  There were times when it looked like that lightning bolt making Tesla monster TK posted a link to in the "Ere" thread
and you just had to stand back and wait for it to run out of Fuel or get the Guts up to hit the Kill switch!!

Yes the poor mans Diesel ....

[ramset]

Grum
Yes Don Garlits made the Hemi notorious over here back in the Dragster days of Yore
and yes they did throw around Big HP numbers at the Time ,I can remember arguing with My A+P instructor
about that in School.

those engines had a Life expectancy of 0 to half a minute at full throttle .

I am quite certain Your Hemi would last much longer ..
that is "yours" in the pic ..Grumbuilt ?
what does it use for fuel ?

thx

Chet

[Grumage]

Dear Chet.

Yes indeed, " Grumbuilt " !! 

A friend found the patent drawings. I then chose a scale from a suitable flywheel that I already had ( 9" dia ) and made all the wooden patterns to suit. A few trips to the Iron and Brass foundry and a few extra hours on the lathe and milling machines, and viola, a running Gas engine. I even made my own timing gears.

The picture is the original prototype I built and there are a couple of others here in the UK. It runs on Propane for both fuel and ignition ( Hot tube ).

Cheers Grum.