Engines are the life force of the gearhead world. We like to think about them in hot rods, trucks, and muscle cars, but there is a much broader scope that needs to be considered. Engines powered far more than cars in the days of old. Often factories would be powered by massive stationary engines used to generate electricity or power machinery through the use of belts, shafts, and other Rube Goldberg looking methods. The monster power plants were a sight to behold.
In this video bonanza we’ll show you some clippage of cool pieces like a large hit and miss engine, a huge hot bulb engine, an old airplane engine with exposed valvetrain, a 16-cylinder Cummins running on a pallet, and a couple of stationary engines that will blow you mind on their size alone. One comes in at over 13,000 cubic inches.
The thing that really fascinates us about these old monsters is that they were purely mechanical pieces. There’s nothing hidden, no black boxes controlling anything, and they seem to be overbuilt and over engineered to the hilt.
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