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Title: Beast of Turin
Post by: dat on April 08, 2015, 01:53:54 PM

1911 Fiat 28.4 liter, 1729 cubic inches,    7-1/2 inch bore/    9-27/32 inch stroke.  300 hp and 2000 ft lbs of torque

it ain't a jeep, but still impressive to me


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsdWgmp4TaQ

Title: Re: Beast of Turin
Post by: Ryan_M on April 08, 2015, 02:38:02 PM

GAWD!!! What a BEAST indeed!

Title: Re: Beast of Turin
Post by: johnrb3b on April 08, 2015, 05:11:29 PM

That was a crazy engine. The pistons were almost 2" bigger than those in John Deere's biggest 2 cyl tractor - 7.5". The biggest Deere was only 5.75"
Do the math and you'll find that each cylinder was over 400 cubic inches. Bigger than most V8s. Wow.

The S76 engine was also built in a version to power dirigables. They used two of them, rated at 350 HP each.

It was pretty much doomed within a few short years as newer technology got the same HP out of an engine half the displacement.

Talk about impressive though. What a monster.

Title: Re: Beast of Turin
Post by: dat on April 08, 2015, 05:16:46 PM

The torque is amazing to me, 2000 ft pounds at 1800 rpm,  and chain drive

Title: Re: Beast of Turin
Post by: Jeff_M on April 08, 2015, 07:44:09 PM

I wonder how much that thing weighed.  Those front tires looked pretty skinny.

Title: Re: Beast of Turin
Post by: BMIC on April 09, 2015, 06:38:00 AM

Smoke and fire coming out of the exhaust is fine as long as you are wearing a sweater and tie.....

Title: Re: Beast of Turin
Post by: dat on April 09, 2015, 08:29:30 AM

with all that smoke, it almost looked like a BBQ pit rolling down the road

Title: Re: Beast of Turin
Post by: 1955CJ-5 on April 09, 2015, 11:31:23 AM

Did you notice the engine hand crank?

That would take a brave fellow....