Rolls Royce Merlin

[wbute]

We are filling time at Sydney domestic terminal waiting to get home. They have a small museum in the QANTAS building. They have a cut away Merlin engine. Interesting to see how advanced engine design was in the 40's.
Single overhead cam shafts. 4 valves per cylinder. Desmodromic cam gears. Fuel injection. That's about all I could see that was obvious to a farmer.
Awesome engines that powered some very important planes. I think Howard Astill even used one or a similar V12 in one of his street machines.

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[sandasharpe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIj2...yer_detailpage

Rod Hadfield - final objective. Saw this in his museum in Castlemaine. I still can't believe it!

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And its street registered!!!!! Has been seen cruising around Castlemaine.

[wbute]

Yep Rod Hadfield,not Astill. That's the one.

[Alien DNA]

If I remember correctly, Jay Leno bought Final Objective for a million dollars.

[RAEME]

They also took the fuel injection, two stage superchargers and other goodies off them, derated from 1500hp to 750hp called them a meteor and put them in Main battle tanks, Cromwell, Centurion etc. We used those tanks in Vietnam to great effect.