If you’re a gearhead, there’s not doubt that at least once in your life you’ve really pissed of the neighbors. Maybe it is working on the car late in the driveway, firing it up uncorked in the middle of the night to set the timing, rumbling back down your quiet street at all hours, doing burnouts in the street, or making stuff smell bad by painting your car in your driveway or something. Hell, we did half that stuff last week but none of it holds a candle to what a guy named Mike Nieman can do and does do in this video.
Just for kicks, Nieman fires up five, yes FIVE radial engines on test stands in his small backyard. Radials are exceedingly loud and five of them chuffing away at little more than idle speed would create a wall of noise most people have actually probably not experienced in their lives. Your small block idling with open manifolds may as well sound like a lullaby as compared to these things. Thankfully for everyone’s ear drums, Nieman does not rev the engines up but merely lets them idle away. The spectacle draws on lookers from an adjacent gas station and at one point the camera is moved to show another house about 20 yards (tops) away form the phalanx of engines that Nieman is starting one by one.
We think we need a setup like this to really show the neighborhood who is boss. Mike Nieman is the man and the fact that he owns five five radials is one thing but the fact that he’ll light them all off like this is entirely another!
PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE MIKE NIEMAN PLAY THE SONG OF HIS PEOPLE FOR THE NEIGHBORS!
LOL this is great! Looks like the one in the middle has a bit of oil in the #3 cylinder – is he running ‘em on propane or is that a primer system? I have a ‘few hours’ between a pair of Wright R2600 (1700HP) – and I still can hear – thanks to modern electronics cancelling the noise.
This is BRILLIANT as we have a neighbour who is a driveway/backyard worker and at all hours so something like this would certainly make him wake up ha! ha!
I wish I had just one!
A bunch of youngsters held an all night noisy music party next to my mate’s and elderly mother house a few years back. he tried to get them to turn it down but they wouldn’t hear any of it and went on until the early morning. He didn’t want to challenge as there was a lot of them and most were half drunk. when the music stopped, sometimes around 7 AM, he stated cutting some logs with a chainsaw until mid morning and then mowed the lawn until mid afternoon.
What an ass.
not looking t it from a noise level – but what about health and safety – 3 or 4 props spinning with no guards or fence – surely cant be legal
That sounded sensational. Seriously, those things are still running, and even the material from back then that did not fatigue to the point of not being able to be restored, that is a testament to the detriment of how low we have gone in material quality to save a buck or two. This is why we restore the old cars, they last… anything past say the early eighties is when the quality started to seriously falter..