There is another use for these engines---about 2 years ago in a Classic Car
magazine I saw where a gent installed one of these in a RR Phantom II or III
chassis. It only needed 4th gear from 0 to ????
Mike
Terry and Tracey wrote:
> No photos unfortunately. 1640 cubic inch. single overhead cams. V12. Gear
> drive to the cams. 3 or 4 valves per cylinder (I can't remember now), dry
> sump, huge supercharger where the flywheel would be on a normal engine.
> Beautiful.
>
> Foxy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > >Nah, but I saw the engine for the only flying Spitfire in Australia
> > getting
> > >rebuilt. A thing of beauty.
> > >
> > >Foxy
> >
> > That's the supercharged V12 Rolls Royce engine with the short "zoomie"
> > exhaust pipes, correct?
> >
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