27L V12 RR Meteor powered SD1...

[sowen]

The Rolls Royce V12 is such an awesome engine, be it Meteor or Merlin. My favorite memory of a Merlin was being deafened by a Spitfire mkIX being run up on the ground about 150ft away from outside, and it wasn't even at full power and I could feel it

There need to be more aero engined cars made

[adi]

^^agreed^^ the sound of an old aero engine is just immense, something awesome about the raw unrestricted power and the exhaust flamage

[sheffieldcortinacentre]

there electric brake retarders

[simes]

Here's my 'video' from FOS when they had a stand there back in 2003/4?

They ran it up the hill along with the Rolls, only they weren't invited to and it was at 5am or something silly.

[Tim]

[prud]

That's a rather impressive SD1. Not surprised the engine is mostly in the cabin!

Jan 24, 2013 11:25:07 GMT optima21 said:

yeah its the supercharger that gives a bit of grunt to the merlin. One was used in this chevy



there are a few cars arround that have used the meteor engine though

Rod Hadfields ATTACK 1955 Chevy. After a lot of discussion and a bajillion year build time he got it fully road registered in Victoria. It was an impressive beast doing laps at the Summernats. No burnout tho Having seen it in the flesh in the judging pavilion I can attest that ATTACK was totally built to show car standards. It made the Top 60 and won placings in categories like Top Paint. For some reason it annihilated the Top Engineered category

Last I heard it was owned by a rich Texan and still looks and drives like it did originally. We can only hope it ends up living in Jay Leno's aero-engine/tank-engine car collection. It'd be awesome to see it parked next to the Tank Car.

[maybachman]

sorry to hijack... but have you seen this??

[Mark16v]

These engines and their brothers and sisters are used a lot on tractor pullers, sometimes 3 or 4 simultaneously on one tractor . The noise (and power) they make is unbelievable.