• From: Life's great in 21158
  • Registered: 2009-05-01
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Topic: Friday's Mystery Engine!

In lieu of surfing Craig's List this morning for a LeMons-worthy heap, I thought I'd share a picture/ puzzler sent in by my good friend and co-Chucker Rob.  He recently got back from a business trip, and while on the road he happened to stop by this garage that had some interesting-looking machinery scattered about.  Inside the garage, the mechanic was toiling away on this lump of iron:

http://www.roadflares.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6544&g2_serialNumber=2

125,000 internet fames to whoever can identify the type of engine this is, and double that if you can also I.D. the car it's currently residing in (no, this is not a trick- the engine is currently residing in it's native habitat; it hasn't been the victim of some unholy swap...yet.)

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  • From: Birdsboro, PA
  • Registered: 2009-10-26
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Re: Friday's Mystery Engine!

Oooh, that's a tough one.  It's an F head which narrows it down significantly, but looks like too many head studs to be a Rover P4 or Willys super hurricane, so I'll guess its a Rolls Royce 4.5 litre from a Silver Wraith

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  • Registered: 2013-07-22
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Re: Friday's Mystery Engine!

It looks a lot like one of the 230CI Oldsmobile side-valves...  So maybe the car is a 1940ish Oldsmobile Dynamic 66?

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  • From: Life's great in 21158
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Re: Friday's Mystery Engine!

Sonic wrote:

Oooh, that's a tough one.  It's an F head which narrows it down significantly, but looks like too many head studs to be a Rover P4 or Willys super hurricane, so I'll guess its a Rolls Royce 4.5 litre from a Silver Wraith

Man, that was quick!

The car:

http://www.roadflares.org/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=6548&g2_serialNumber=2

"F" head...or (and I am not making this up) "IOE" engine.  IOE, in this case, means "Intake Over Exhaust", but it could just as well mean what we all like it to mean.  ;-)

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5 Reply by zebrabeefj40 (edited by zebrabeefj40 2013-10-18 08:05 AM)

  • From: Pepperell MA
  • Registered: 2009-12-06
  • Posts: 536

Re: Friday's Mystery Engine!

My Googlefoo leads me to guess its a Rover IOE inline 6 or a Hudson inline 6... (dang, I type too slow...)

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  • From: Birdsboro, PA
  • Registered: 2009-10-26
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Re: Friday's Mystery Engine!

Nice!  I guess I have a little more RR knowledge than most, by necessity, unfortunately.

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  • Registered: 2013-07-22
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Re: Friday's Mystery Engine!

Sonic wrote:

Nice!  I guess I have a little more RR knowledge than most, by necessity, unfortunately.


Dammit. All my fancy British knowledge is wasted on Range Rovers! I'm the poorest of all the royalty!

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  • From: Very Rainy Washington State
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Re: Friday's Mystery Engine!

36 head studs? I would like to see the torque order for reassembly of that.

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  • From: Milford, NJ
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Re: Friday's Mystery Engine!

stimpyvan wrote:

36 head studs? I would like to see the torque order for reassembly of that.


Given that this is a fine motorcar, I believe the specification would be "Torque Adequately."  To provide such numbers would simply be uncouth.

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