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Honestly if Nissan made a road version, they could make something to compete with the GR Yaris / Corolla. Imagine a Micra with this engine and AWD! It'd be awesome.
That engine alone would cost over twice as much as a GR Yaris. These kinds of performance numbers are only possible from race engines because only race teams can afford them.
@@ChristianStoutI mean the G16E-GTS is a race engine as well if you think about it since it was designed & homologated with Rally2 regulation in mind, but the difference is you can technically bought that engine alone as a crate engine. Hence why the GR Yaris Rally2 is awesome in my eyes since it pretty much kept the engine & turbo from the road car and slightly up-boosted it to make 300hp.
@@ChristianStoutThe cost could be brought down if it was made in assembly lines. The question would be is "by how much?" and that's what I'm interested in.
The unicorn engine I want someone to find (although I think it sadly no longer exists) is the 4.2 litre V10 Cosworth made for Volvo - and which Volvo heat-soak tested by fitting to a couple of 850 mule cars and driving them in Gothenburg rush hour traffic. Who wouldn't want a go in an 850 with a 4.2 litre V10?
@@CaptainHoratioPugwash yeah, as @wobblysauce said, they just used the 850 to do some testing, hence mule cars. There's conflicting info out there, but it seems like they wanted a special engine for the forthcoming S80 big saloon. They were also testing some other variants, including an estate version of the S80 and even very early prototypes of a lifted AWD estate/SUV. All except the S80 would later be dropped, including the big engine, and we would later only get the smaller estate based on the S60. The Yamaha V8 came too late for the original S80, but did end up in the P2 platform it spawned in the form of the XC90. It would also see service in the later P3 S80, whose platform would be used by parent company Ford for many of their global models, including the US version of the Mondeo, which was fitted with Ford's own V8 instead of the Yamaha.
You're referring to the 1996 Cosworth WDA V10. The photo of the engine appears in the Cosworth Search for Power book and the engine is still in the archives.
Lots of people in the comments talking about putting it into a bike or making a sleeper car. Being optimized for racing I think this engine deserves something more like an Ariel Atom chassis.
1:31 I know this isn't the main topic of the video, but the Juke-R is a heck of a rarity. 5 examples were produced, and Nissan has kept 2 of them, meaning that there are only 3 of these to be found around the globe. And yeah, it's literally a Juke with a sportier bodykit, wings and the GT-R's V6 engine chucked in it. RML also contributed to its development.
I was at LeMans in 2014. It was a cool thing to see on track. Their plan was to run a normal stint on the engine near to LMP2 pace and then do a lap on electric only at GT pace. But it had loads of issues all week and didn’t do many laps. The full electric lap they managed was in morning warmup and I’m not sure if it was actually on regen or if they simply charged it in the garage. In the race to the gearbox failed after a very small number of laps and that was it.
Mike that's the cam pulley at the top, the cam runs at half the speed of the crank therefore it will be twice the size of the pulley on the crank to run at 50% of the rotational speed of the crankshaft.
This is why the Abarth 500s exist. Cant get to 400hp with the American model. Yet. But the Euro T-Jets can. Here in the USA. 400 ft lbs of torque is about it. But thats gonna cost much more than the cars are worth.
Drivetribe always manages to create videos on awesome topics, meets many interesting people and somehow even gets inside some of the most interesting facilities. But the best part is, that despite all of that they always manage to only scratch the surface and provide us with actually very little information, then they compress everything into 10-15 minutes which includes 2 minutes of adverts. Great job!
This is what makes UA-cam Journalism - Game Changing. This is what makes the suivalence society so powerful. Because we care, our eyes help you get advertising & support that means that you can effect companies to acknowledge the great work they have done. And now the world knows off this engine, people across the planet will ask for it to be built into specialist tools. Their is nothing wrong with ICE engines as long as we have ways to mitigate their effects. In a future where we mostly run EV's we can afford to run artisal pieces of ICE such as this. This is a thing of utter beauty and I am sure if you ask any real EV Motorhead they would agree!
honestly as a budget (for a proper race team) race car engine it would work well every category from single seaters to rally cars and anything in between (city car touring vehicles) reduce the power output accordingly and it would work well and if it needs rebuilding it requires less rods pistons bearings rings everything (almost)
Great presentation! The Headless Block is a cool idea for a boosted engine but you still have to keep the crank in the mains and if you can push them apart you'll lose oil pressure in the big end. Everything has its pros and cons.
So.. the big question I bet most are asking is ... why can't this be made into a production engine? They really broke a lot of engineering tradition, but is the unit and materials cost astronomical? Could you imagine that setup in a Cooper Classic, or an original Cinquecento? Steve Morris engines is working on a 3-cylinder side-by-side engine that's supposedly going to make north of 1,000 hp - but his project could never go mass production, or be cost effective for the masses either.
As the engineer said, this engine is optimized for a purpose. It probably makes 400bhp at 15,000 rpm and peak torque is likely quite low in relation to the bhp. It's built to be a component of a complex hybrid drivetrain, without the electric motors it's a duck out of water. I'd bet the cost of building this engine was a number with 7 or more digits to the left of the decimal. Demand for a production version would be tiny, given it will appeal to a literal handful of people and even fewer will have the dosh to actually buy one even if a production version was priced to achieve break even for a limited run. RML doesn't do production, and Nissan is struggling to retool and keep the lights on right now (Renault hasn't hammered all the nails in the coffin, but they've working hard at it...)
Because it was designed for racing first & foremost. As cool as it is, it's not economically viable turning a race engine to be used for road use. I mean the G16E-GTS inside the GR Yaris is the literal closest thing to the Diglett. 304hp stock from 1.6L 3cyl Turbo, used in competition for GR Yaris Rally2, and if you're doing it right can be tuned to 400-600hp.
@@AbrahamArthemius Yeah, so were Dunlop Disc brakes and overhead cam engines in the 1960's which became commonplace today. The long and short of it is this - Nissan and RML did it for a specific purpose but didn't consider the bigger picture. I guess the Steve Morris version will have to be what the masses can opt in for at a premium option cost. 🤦♂
@@SeanPwnery i mean to be fair, Nissan always seems to be in their kind of inside turmoil especially leadership since the 00s to now so that's probably one of the reason for it. They really don't have that one guy who actually has the vision AND passion to really bring motorsport elements to the masses like Toyota had with Akio Toyoda/Morizo. Their e-Power system for example (think a train's diesel-electric system but for a car) is actually pretty great, they can tinker with it and build a genuinely unique hot hatch product in the market with it, but they won't ever do it.
I think you should do some sort of vid on steam engines as a whole. either trains, tractors, trucks, or cars, doesnt really matter, but in the era we are seeing more and more electric cars bring more and more impressive torque figures to the table, it would be fun to see them compared to one of the oldest engines and, at least to some extent, still the kings of torque that will beat any electric vehicle on the road today. the powers of *external* combustion...
For all those who are remarking about how amazing the engine is with it's lack of a separate cylinder head - this isn't a new concept. Many production cars have used this - all the way back to the early 1900s. Also was common in early aircraft engines. Also interesting this video didn't include any mention of the Deltawings history - and Nissan out of court settling a lawsuit for kinda ripping off the design that was owned/IP of Ganassi Racing / Panoz.
What an interesting lightweight little engine. It reminds me of a small version of the Koenigsegg TFG engine. While the TFG is 500cc bigger, it is also 30kg heavier than this engine. But the TFG engine makes 600hp and 601nm of torque from 3 cylinders. But having said all that, the TFG is also an engine built for a road car.
Imagine all cars making engines monoblok, no head. All the head gasket problems gone ... Might have to drop engine for service, but it looks so tiny and simple before adding electronics and gearbox. Interesting design ...
For me, the most impressive part of this engine is the fact that it has no head, no head gasket, and that they completely eliminated a huge point of failure and additional weight by just casting the entire upper as a single piece. In all my years of looking at engines, I have never seen that done before, and have never even considered if it was possible. Super cool to see a working and effective implementation of a very clever concept. What's less impressive is the marketing headline of 400HP at 40kg. I would hazard a guess that the power-to-weight of the two electric motors attached to that engine in the car are far higher, but just like with the engine, that's a meaningless figure without accounting for all the auxiliaries needed to get the engine (or electric motors) to actually make 400HP in an actual car. There was a slight nod to this in the video when they added the turbo to the scale, but that's still miles away from an engine that can make 400HP. You need an intercooler, radiator, oil cooler, all the plumbing, exhaust, intake, filters, fuel tank and pump, fuel, oil, coolant, gearbox, differential, and at the end of the day, the result is actually a lot less impressive than even a 20 year old 1000cc bike engine in terms of power-to weight. It's a shame that it takes an idiotic and misleading marketing tagline to draw attention to what really is an engineering marvel in so many other ways.
I hope the Deltawing makes its way to a museum. It self is a great feat of engineering, if a terrible racecar. The engine/motor should be highlighted as well.
Would love some willams input on creating the 6r4 and then how it led to them developing the xj220 that would be amazing. As a kid I was lucky enough to go to Wales to a local rover dealer for the unveiling of the 6r4 and then on to its first rally. There was wynn percy and Tony pond there from memory malcolm wilson might of been there to. Wouldn't it be amazing to see how they created this normally aspirated gem when all around were turboing.
I remember hearing about this this thing when it was new, and younger me thought it was for a future Nismo Altima or something fun and affordable as i believe the article suggested. Glad to see it in reality
If you guys want cool small engines, you should really get into motor bikes. Kawasaki's H2R has a supercharged 1.0L i4 that puts out over 300hp. Would be cool to hear from Team Green on the development of that engine.
Wooohhh a monoblock cylinder and head built into one this is a modern Hart 415 T engine. Wow They should have shown how the valvetrain was installed and how it works and how much rpms it can take. I wish drive tribe gets full access to Porsche 919 v4 engine and at the same time show the Ducati v4 and the GP 24 Ducati engine.
it would've been such a baller move to sell a slightly detuned engine to racing teams. EVERYONE talked about this engine when it came out, and nissan then decided to do absolutely anything with it and never even elaborated. 😂 sometimes i really do wonder how some companies even stay in business, if this is how they do things generally...
It would make a great engine for a modern day 60's F1 car. I've been working on a design for a aj30 powered lotus 49ish replica that would weigh around 300kg.
An engine with no head would change everything the amount of horsepower you could put in that thing would be incredible and the lack of maintenance needed It would be a super reliable engine with no head issues whatsoever as it wouldn't have one they should start designing cars like this
I want to know more about the 9-liter V16 from the Johnny English Phantom, which made "unbelievable power and torque figures", according to Mr. Atkinson 🙂
Since reading about an aircraft engine experiment from the late '90s (I read about it in the early 2000s), I've tried to think of ways to make a monoblock engine work for an aircraft engine, or for road car engines, so it's unfortunate that this project didn't lead to anything production worthy.
I would love to see this in an early S1 Elise. Mine weighs 720Kg. It could weigh less and be much more powerful with this engine. I imagine with (say) 300 road tractable bhp it would be even more of a dream to drive than it is now. What a shame that something like this has been developed right at the end of the life of the internal combustion engine.
It is cool to see very ancient tech, modernized and maximized to peak efficiency. Mono-block engins fell out of favor in the 1920s because they weighed too much, and cost too much. Now with proper engineering and manufacturing, it is the best in both
I think my Sandero TCE 90 engine is smaller still. probably deeper (taller) and certainly weights more though. The battery under the bonnet looks bigger than the head of the engine. lol
Imagine having this design theory on a another engine billet to spec'ced (k-series, rb perhaps?). Those race engine could be made lighter and more durable (less head gasket sealant issue, etc). how much further do i wonder those engine can be pushed.
I'd like to see a V4 car engine... I am not big into cars so my knowledge is limited but I do know that in Moto GP most of those bikes run a V4 so the comparison would be interesting for me.
Fascinating, but I think you need to up the technical level on these engine videos. You can never have too much detail. Driving4Answers does some great engine technical videos.
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Bmw i8
Oliver!
toyota yaris
Miata
Thanks, Mike. Great video.
13:18 V5? You meant VR5. The only true V5 ICE is the Honda 75.5° V5 RC211V MotoGP racing engine 😉
Honestly if Nissan made a road version, they could make something to compete with the GR Yaris / Corolla. Imagine a Micra with this engine and AWD! It'd be awesome.
Literally the entire video I was like "I want this in my K11"
That engine alone would cost over twice as much as a GR Yaris. These kinds of performance numbers are only possible from race engines because only race teams can afford them.
@@ChristianStoutI mean the G16E-GTS is a race engine as well if you think about it since it was designed & homologated with Rally2 regulation in mind, but the difference is you can technically bought that engine alone as a crate engine.
Hence why the GR Yaris Rally2 is awesome in my eyes since it pretty much kept the engine & turbo from the road car and slightly up-boosted it to make 300hp.
@@ChristianStoutThe cost could be brought down if it was made in assembly lines. The question would be is "by how much?" and that's what I'm interested in.
An engine like this would never go into a road car - it's not made to run thousands of miles like you would expect from your road car engine
The look of pure joy on Mike's face, holding that crank at about 11:35, yeah they definitely found the right person for this job!
The unicorn engine I want someone to find (although I think it sadly no longer exists) is the 4.2 litre V10 Cosworth made for Volvo - and which Volvo heat-soak tested by fitting to a couple of 850 mule cars and driving them in Gothenburg rush hour traffic. Who wouldn't want a go in an 850 with a 4.2 litre V10?
I'm sorry, did you say Volvo 850 V10??? I've never heard of that project before.
@@CaptainHoratioPugwash That is the idea of a Mule... just a body they had around with minimal custom work to install test parts.
@@CaptainHoratioPugwash yeah, as @wobblysauce said, they just used the 850 to do some testing, hence mule cars. There's conflicting info out there, but it seems like they wanted a special engine for the forthcoming S80 big saloon. They were also testing some other variants, including an estate version of the S80 and even very early prototypes of a lifted AWD estate/SUV. All except the S80 would later be dropped, including the big engine, and we would later only get the smaller estate based on the S60. The Yamaha V8 came too late for the original S80, but did end up in the P2 platform it spawned in the form of the XC90. It would also see service in the later P3 S80, whose platform would be used by parent company Ford for many of their global models, including the US version of the Mondeo, which was fitted with Ford's own V8 instead of the Yamaha.
You're referring to the 1996 Cosworth WDA V10. The photo of the engine appears in the Cosworth Search for Power book and the engine is still in the archives.
2:53 It's almost as if the "top pulley" needs to be twice the size of the crank pulley 😆
😂😂😂😂😂 yea
That’s shocking!
😂😂😂😂
no wai
He seriously has no idea
Now we need this to also be installed in a MX5
Probably someone has done it on UA-cam
Yeah if it exists someone's already put it in an mx5
Just like the V10, that was supposed to go into a previous Mazda MX5, which never materialised by Mike and DRIVETRIBE.
Would get zero traction it's to light
Surely a GR86 would be more appropriate?
Lots of people in the comments talking about putting it into a bike or making a sleeper car. Being optimized for racing I think this engine deserves something more like an Ariel Atom chassis.
yep sounds great
Imagine swapping it into s bike💀💀💀
That would be juuuuust amaziiing 😱😱😱😱😱😱
You can just throw a turbo on a busa and get 300hp very easily
@@CS-pl8fc yes true... but that setup would closely weigh 300kg... this setup probably tops out at 150kg I guess... with 100hp more
It would be wild
@@BurnedNerd turbobusa engine pack would be still lighter because there is gearbox integrated in it. Also you can take easy 500hp of that.
1:31 I know this isn't the main topic of the video, but the Juke-R is a heck of a rarity. 5 examples were produced, and Nissan has kept 2 of them, meaning that there are only 3 of these to be found around the globe.
And yeah, it's literally a Juke with a sportier bodykit, wings and the GT-R's V6 engine chucked in it. RML also contributed to its development.
Which is probably why RML has one. Does it have the AWD system as well or just the engine?
@@Yvolve It had the AWD system from the GTR also. It was a beast!
I paused at 1:29 and had a divine moment looking at that number plate.🙏
It's not just that, it's a GT-R underneath with a Juke shell on it. Shorter propeller shaft and other work to make it fit
All Jukes should be a rarity. Horrible things
I was at LeMans in 2014. It was a cool thing to see on track. Their plan was to run a normal stint on the engine near to LMP2 pace and then do a lap on electric only at GT pace. But it had loads of issues all week and didn’t do many laps.
The full electric lap they managed was in morning warmup and I’m not sure if it was actually on regen or if they simply charged it in the garage. In the race to the gearbox failed after a very small number of laps and that was it.
Now that we know how light everything was built the failures are much less surprising.
Mike that's the cam pulley at the top, the cam runs at half the speed of the crank therefore it will be twice the size of the pulley on the crank to run at 50% of the rotational speed of the crankshaft.
Also the crank pulley doesn’t have a harmonic damper which would be similar size to the cam pulley
That engine in a Ford Fiesta and we have something super fun..
Miata.
This is why the Abarth 500s exist. Cant get to 400hp with the American model. Yet. But the Euro T-Jets can. Here in the USA. 400 ft lbs of torque is about it. But thats gonna cost much more than the cars are worth.
@@1320crusier Every single time
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Drivetribe always manages to create videos on awesome topics, meets many interesting people and somehow even gets inside some of the most interesting facilities. But the best part is, that despite all of that they always manage to only scratch the surface and provide us with actually very little information, then they compress everything into 10-15 minutes which includes 2 minutes of adverts. Great job!
Get that engine into the next Smallet Cog Racing car. Back on the track where it belongs.
And out of the race already from tech inspection
@@hexgraphica Depends on the series?
This is what makes UA-cam Journalism - Game Changing.
This is what makes the suivalence society so powerful. Because we care, our eyes help you get advertising & support that means that you can effect companies to acknowledge the great work they have done. And now the world knows off this engine, people across the planet will ask for it to be built into specialist tools. Their is nothing wrong with ICE engines as long as we have ways to mitigate their effects. In a future where we mostly run EV's we can afford to run artisal pieces of ICE such as this.
This is a thing of utter beauty and I am sure if you ask any real EV Motorhead they would agree!
I'd love to see a v6 version of that engine.
VR6!
I6, that perfect balance and pushing 800 hp. Yep. 👌🏻🗿
Boxer configuration to go in a wrx....
see F1
awesome video, i love little 3 cylinder engines, the fact theres road legal GR Yaris with 800hp just bends my mind
That could’ve made a Caterham even more bonkers.
honestly as a budget (for a proper race team) race car engine it would work well every category from single seaters to rally cars and anything in between (city car touring vehicles) reduce the power output accordingly and it would work well and if it needs rebuilding it requires less rods pistons bearings rings everything (almost)
Exactly my thoughts.
until it needs a full rebuild after every 1000 miles.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Great presentation!
The Headless Block is a cool idea for a boosted engine but you still have to keep the crank in the mains and if you can push them apart you'll lose oil pressure in the big end. Everything has its pros and cons.
Would love to see you guys have a look round the other projects at RML. Looks like an amazing place!
@13:51 Every single one you can find!👴🤷♂
So.. the big question I bet most are asking is ... why can't this be made into a production engine? They really broke a lot of engineering tradition, but is the unit and materials cost astronomical? Could you imagine that setup in a Cooper Classic, or an original Cinquecento? Steve Morris engines is working on a 3-cylinder side-by-side engine that's supposedly going to make north of 1,000 hp - but his project could never go mass production, or be cost effective for the masses either.
As the engineer said, this engine is optimized for a purpose. It probably makes 400bhp at 15,000 rpm and peak torque is likely quite low in relation to the bhp. It's built to be a component of a complex hybrid drivetrain, without the electric motors it's a duck out of water.
I'd bet the cost of building this engine was a number with 7 or more digits to the left of the decimal. Demand for a production version would be tiny, given it will appeal to a literal handful of people and even fewer will have the dosh to actually buy one even if a production version was priced to achieve break even for a limited run. RML doesn't do production, and Nissan is struggling to retool and keep the lights on right now (Renault hasn't hammered all the nails in the coffin, but they've working hard at it...)
Because it was designed for racing first & foremost.
As cool as it is, it's not economically viable turning a race engine to be used for road use.
I mean the G16E-GTS inside the GR Yaris is the literal closest thing to the Diglett. 304hp stock from 1.6L 3cyl Turbo, used in competition for GR Yaris Rally2, and if you're doing it right can be tuned to 400-600hp.
@@AbrahamArthemius Yeah, so were Dunlop Disc brakes and overhead cam engines in the 1960's which became commonplace today. The long and short of it is this - Nissan and RML did it for a specific purpose but didn't consider the bigger picture. I guess the Steve Morris version will have to be what the masses can opt in for at a premium option cost. 🤦♂
@@SeanPwnery i mean to be fair, Nissan always seems to be in their kind of inside turmoil especially leadership since the 00s to now so that's probably one of the reason for it.
They really don't have that one guy who actually has the vision AND passion to really bring motorsport elements to the masses like Toyota had with Akio Toyoda/Morizo.
Their e-Power system for example (think a train's diesel-electric system but for a car) is actually pretty great, they can tinker with it and build a genuinely unique hot hatch product in the market with it, but they won't ever do it.
@@TonySims888the nissan engine revs to around 7 500 or 8000 rpm, ot 15000
Thanks for covering this!
Fit this to your Mx5
I would love to see that engine in a 1980s honda city or a fiat 500
A mini.
I own a 1991 Honda Beat :)
@@darkmugetsu6572 would be an awesome engine for your honda beat
This looks great. I love the 3 cylinder in my GR Yaris. Awesome engine.
I think you should do some sort of vid on steam engines as a whole. either trains, tractors, trucks, or cars, doesnt really matter, but in the era we are seeing more and more electric cars bring more and more impressive torque figures to the table, it would be fun to see them compared to one of the oldest engines and, at least to some extent, still the kings of torque that will beat any electric vehicle on the road today. the powers of *external* combustion...
For all those who are remarking about how amazing the engine is with it's lack of a separate cylinder head - this isn't a new concept. Many production cars have used this - all the way back to the early 1900s. Also was common in early aircraft engines. Also interesting this video didn't include any mention of the Deltawings history - and Nissan out of court settling a lawsuit for kinda ripping off the design that was owned/IP of Ganassi Racing / Panoz.
Very interesting, both the engine and the cars stored at RML. Thanks for sharing with us all.
Now we need Mike to look at the Craig Williams custom K24 V8 Honda engine
Awesome! Thankyou RML ❤
Loving the obsession with unique engines! Cool to learn about secret projects that are assigned to the archives.
What a brilliant follow up..!
An amazing piece of engineering, but I wonder what the durability would have been like, especially under race conditions
this will definitely fit in my miata
What an interesting lightweight little engine. It reminds me of a small version of the Koenigsegg TFG engine. While the TFG is 500cc bigger, it is also 30kg heavier than this engine. But the TFG engine makes 600hp and 601nm of torque from 3 cylinders. But having said all that, the TFG is also an engine built for a road car.
Being in RML I wish you'd also do some content about the WTCC chevrolets
This was super fun, I hope you will find connections to other rarities 🙂
RML is such an interesting company...if only we could see what is hidden behind those walls... Thanks for the glimpse...
Imagine all cars making engines monoblok, no head. All the head gasket problems gone ... Might have to drop engine for service, but it looks so tiny and simple before adding electronics and gearbox. Interesting design ...
So is the evocation of the Ferrari 250GT SWB parked near door.
Loving the roof rack attached to the roof.
For me, the most impressive part of this engine is the fact that it has no head, no head gasket, and that they completely eliminated a huge point of failure and additional weight by just casting the entire upper as a single piece. In all my years of looking at engines, I have never seen that done before, and have never even considered if it was possible. Super cool to see a working and effective implementation of a very clever concept.
What's less impressive is the marketing headline of 400HP at 40kg. I would hazard a guess that the power-to-weight of the two electric motors attached to that engine in the car are far higher, but just like with the engine, that's a meaningless figure without accounting for all the auxiliaries needed to get the engine (or electric motors) to actually make 400HP in an actual car.
There was a slight nod to this in the video when they added the turbo to the scale, but that's still miles away from an engine that can make 400HP. You need an intercooler, radiator, oil cooler, all the plumbing, exhaust, intake, filters, fuel tank and pump, fuel, oil, coolant, gearbox, differential, and at the end of the day, the result is actually a lot less impressive than even a 20 year old 1000cc bike engine in terms of power-to weight. It's a shame that it takes an idiotic and misleading marketing tagline to draw attention to what really is an engineering marvel in so many other ways.
You didn't mention it at the end, but I'd love to see a piece on the dual engines out of Triumph's land speed record bike from the 2010s.
I hope the Deltawing makes its way to a museum. It self is a great feat of engineering, if a terrible racecar. The engine/motor should be highlighted as well.
loved this video - amazing engineering - really it's podcast material i could listen to that story for an hour
Would be wild for my Pao. Would even "settle" for a kr swap if Nissan had a manual transmission option available.
I can remember first seeing the Delta Wing at Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta years ago. Very cool little car.
😂 you should make a habit of snuggling with the engines more often. Was beautiful to watch 😅
Would love some willams input on creating the 6r4 and then how it led to them developing the xj220 that would be amazing.
As a kid I was lucky enough to go to Wales to a local rover dealer for the unveiling of the 6r4 and then on to its first rally. There was wynn percy and Tony pond there from memory malcolm wilson might of been there to. Wouldn't it be amazing to see how they created this normally aspirated gem when all around were turboing.
I remember hearing about this this thing when it was new, and younger me thought it was for a future Nismo Altima or something fun and affordable as i believe the article suggested. Glad to see it in reality
Gonna make this Engine Tribe at this rate and I'm totally here for it.
i hoped this engine would be produced, glad you found it, there is still hope :)
Absolutely incredible amount of power from a three cylinder engine Absolutely awesome & bonkers!!!👌🏻👍🏻
Love this content!! Always cool to see something new that’s old lol
I happen to know of a few Deltawings over here in the states that are missing some engines so have them send some over here!
If you guys want cool small engines, you should really get into motor bikes. Kawasaki's H2R has a supercharged 1.0L i4 that puts out over 300hp. Would be cool to hear from Team Green on the development of that engine.
v16 Rolls next?
Rowan Atkinson is the man to ask about it. If he convinced BMW/RR once, he can maybe do it twice.
Wooohhh a monoblock cylinder and head built into one this is a modern Hart 415 T engine. Wow
They should have shown how the valvetrain was installed and how it works and how much rpms it can take.
I wish drive tribe gets full access to Porsche 919 v4 engine and at the same time show the Ducati v4 and the GP 24 Ducati engine.
I would love to put this in an Orginal Mini, the power to weight would be fantastic.
Great to see 😍
I'm using a V12 for my project 😎
Best video in a very long time. So interesting!
There is a hybrid mode, the engine and electric motors working together for total power combined 750 BHP!
EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR MY 1.5 ND MIATA!
How about covering a subaru 1235 f1 engine? Its known that koenigsegg had some of them as they looked into using it when they first started.
We need more!!
Nice to see some proper engineering content. Well done
it would've been such a baller move to sell a slightly detuned engine to racing teams.
EVERYONE talked about this engine when it came out, and nissan then decided to do absolutely anything with it and never even elaborated.
😂 sometimes i really do wonder how some companies even stay in business, if this is how they do things generally...
Time to put it in a reliant Robin just for the lols.. Imagine rocking up next to a porsche at a trafficlight and doing a bit of a dragrace start.. :D
It would make a great engine for a modern day 60's F1 car. I've been working on a design for a aj30 powered lotus 49ish replica that would weigh around 300kg.
Nissan seriously needs to mass produce this engine. The demand would be insane 😮
An engine with no head would change everything the amount of horsepower you could put in that thing would be incredible and the lack of maintenance needed It would be a super reliable engine with no head issues whatsoever as it wouldn't have one they should start designing cars like this
I want to know more about the 9-liter V16 from the Johnny English Phantom, which made "unbelievable power and torque figures", according to Mr. Atkinson 🙂
Brilliant video would love to see more
Since reading about an aircraft engine experiment from the late '90s (I read about it in the early 2000s), I've tried to think of ways to make a monoblock engine work for an aircraft engine, or for road car engines, so it's unfortunate that this project didn't lead to anything production worthy.
I would love to see this in an early S1 Elise. Mine weighs 720Kg. It could weigh less and be much more powerful with this engine. I imagine with (say) 300 road tractable bhp it would be even more of a dream to drive than it is now. What a shame that something like this has been developed right at the end of the life of the internal combustion engine.
i need one of these for in my project car !!! , no electric nonsense though , pure petrol engine , 5 or 6 speed gearbox and rearwheel drive !!!!!!!
It would be cool if you did a video on the vw nardo
The very thing that gave it power is the thing to make it not work for very long, the turbo.
whaaat I did not know it was an monoblock engine! thats so cool
Stick 2 of these in a classic mini and I'd love to see what that drives like!
what a cool engine!!! surely it would be more stable if it was a 4 cylinder rather than a 3?
It is cool to see very ancient tech, modernized and maximized to peak efficiency. Mono-block engins fell out of favor in the 1920s because they weighed too much, and cost too much. Now with proper engineering and manufacturing, it is the best in both
Lovely little engine!!
I WANT MORE ON THIS ENGINE PLEEEEAAAAAASE !!!!
Wait, the engine designation is DI-GTR and its a three cylinder, so not a Diglet, but a Digtrio.
A consumer version of this in a micra would be great, or even better a 4 cylinder version in a pulsar to bring back the gtir
I think my Sandero TCE 90 engine is smaller still. probably deeper (taller) and certainly weights more though.
The battery under the bonnet looks bigger than the head of the engine. lol
Great video Mike. I would love to see the Porsche 4 cylinder F1 engine
I'd love to know more about the 250SWB restomod in the shop.
2nd generation rx7.. as much as I love them.. had an 86' and a 83' and I'm 6'3
Imagine having this design theory on a another engine billet to spec'ced (k-series, rb perhaps?). Those race engine could be made lighter and more durable (less head gasket sealant issue, etc). how much further do i wonder those engine can be pushed.
I’d love to see more on the dual LS (V16) motor that was built. Or the big-block sized 12-Rotor that Rob Dahm has
This is extraordinary levels of sick
I guarantee the cam pulley is double the size of the crank pulley. It's not out of place
I'd like to see a V4 car engine... I am not big into cars so my knowledge is limited but I do know that in Moto GP most of those bikes run a V4 so the comparison would be interesting for me.
How about you look into the 9L v16 BMW engine they put in a rolls Royce........kinda relevant with the new v16 from bugatti
I want to see more on the VW W10, there is an M5 somewhere with one.
v4 porsche may be my favorite
and reason for owning my vfr1200 v4 honda
Fascinating, but I think you need to up the technical level on these engine videos. You can never have too much detail. Driving4Answers does some great engine technical videos.
I definitely want to see that Porsche Flat/Boxer 8.