Re: and a STRANGE Chrysler


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Posted by Brian in Oregon on Thursday, June 07, 2001 at 1:22AM :

In Reply to: and a STRANGE Chrysler posted by Neil on Thursday, June 07, 2001 at 0:56AM :

Each Dodge flathead six was bolted onto a common crankcase, and a common "crank" shaft was run off of gears on each engine. A very unique looking engine.

While not typical, there were a number of engines made up of two engines driving a common crankshaft. The Germans used four V-12 engines in their Heinkel He-177 bomber, arranged in pairs on a common crankcase. This was for aerodynamic purposes, since the frontal area of two nacelles is les than four. Drawback was they did not work out all the bugs for hot oil splash onto the center exhaust manifolds and the engines caught fire embarassingly easy.

Our XB-39 bomber was a B-29 which had Allison V-12 engines - EIGHT of them in four nacelles, each nacelle with two on a common crankcase in a w pattern. Awesome power, but it simply used too many scarce engines to justify it.

The Chrysler tank engine was unique in that it used five engines on a common crankcase. I'm not aware of any other design using five, nor have I heard of any using even three or four.





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