Thank you so much. Glad you dig this video. I’ve been wanting to cover this engine for a while but I wasn’t sure if there was gonna be enough information on the Internet to do it. I was gonna wait until after I got back from the Gilmore autumn museum which I’m going to in a couple weeks I might make an announcement if anybody wanted to meet me up there, but I don’t know we’ll see lol
I remember in our local scrapyard they had a few old 20s cars in the back and one of them had an engine that looked just like this all the valve covers were off and you could see the over-head-valves and the gears driving them. If it was one of these I wish I would have taken it home. Sadly now their all gone melted down for scrap.
Wow that’s crazy they have a few of these at the Gilmore auto museum I love the profile I think because it looks like a Hispano suiza I was born too late I would have loved finding some of those engine in junk yards
Great history on a forgotten person that was a great automotive engineer, I got the book about the company and the man, he is up there with H.H. Franklin in engineering cars advanced for that time. His signature is on every Ford vehicle made, he designed the Ford script. First choice all three, second 1921 Jordan and throw in the Kissel.
I want to feature some Franklin engines for engine episode Wednesday it’s just I can never find enough information Definitely going to cover the sleeve valve as well .. it was a crazy week this week and last week. Been trying to find engines that don’t take a long time to put together Pontiac V8 Cadillac V8 those ones are gonna take a while there’s a lot of different displacements to cover. Great choices
@@What.its.like. I have 2 Franklin books when I get time I will look for some info too, soon as I send you the Ford truck info, and add Dodge heavy duty 6 cyl engines, been real busy too.
You picked a great car to feature, Jay! I didn't know much about these, so thank you for the overview/review. This car is very impressive (and yes, those bumpers looks like those of a Lincoln).I'd take the Wills St. Claire in both cases.
-Bevel gears for overhead cams would seem to be ideal but they need special attention with fitting [shims] and they use way more energy than chains or belts do. This is why they are not used in modern automobiles.
Wills didn't just work at Ford Motor Co., he was best man at Henry and Clara Ford's wedding. He got permission from Henry before leaving with the understanding that Wills would not compete directly with Ford Motor Co. Marysville didn't exist before the Wills factory, the town is named for his wife, Mary Wills. The Wills Ste. Claire Museum in Marysville is a nice place to visit.
I was born in St. Clair County, Mish-Gin in Port Huron, and lived in Marine City when I was a baby in 1966-68, then in St. Clair itself in '68-'70. I lived down the street from Johnny Erickson, who's family owned the local Erickson drugs. This is a small town, and I rode my motorcycle from my parents house in Temperance in 1994. I wasn't impressed~
Not many Wills St Claire cars were made, few survive. Jay Leno has one that he got as someone's former parts car. It is now a superb car, he has covered it in restoration blogs several times, and did a full video on it 3 years ago.
Yeah, I was watching his episode on it. It’s a pretty cool car according to Jay there’s only about 80 left. Gilmore had three last year when I was up there perhaps more I’m not sure. I definitely would love to cover one from the early error and I would love to cover a six cylinder. There isn’t as much on the Internet about the six cylinder engine. I’m going to the Gilmore not next week but the week after I might make a post about it , if anybody’s up in that area and they wanna meet up we can
@@What.its.like. It would be worth saying that the Hispano Suiza WW1 aero engine that inspired the Willis St Claire engine design was also made under licence in England by Wolseley and the USA by Curtis. Probably by others as well.
Hi Jay! Wills Sainte Claire is one of my favorite forgotten auto companies! They have a museum up there in Michigan that has at least two of the cars. The engine was GENIUS! WAY more than 10 years ahead of its time. Unfortunately, in those days advanced auto technology was expensive to develop and produce. That's why a lot of the exotic engines you saw at that time were in racing cars. Duesey's, MIllers, Ballot, Delage, Bugatti, etc. There is a very good book out there on Childe Harold Wills. I read it in a digital format, but it was a very good read! Amazon have it, I am pretty sure. The museum I mentioned is in Marysville, Michigan and is called the Wills Sainte Claire Auto Museum. They have the largest collection of the cars in existence. WYR's are easy! WIlls for both! I have been fascinated with these cars for quite a few years. The Jordan was tempting, though! One more thing about Mr. Wills. He pioneered the use of molybdenum steel, which later became the very strong Chrome-Moly steels we have today! Go Wills!
Happy you dig this video there’s a few wills st Claire at the Gilmore Auto Museum. I’m going back there in a couple weeks I’m hoping to cover a couple or at least one they have some engines laying around too the greatest thing about the Gilmore is you can walk right up to those cars like it’s your car as long as you respect the car don’t touch it, it’s an awesome place to go I’m gonna try to cover some stuff that I’m never gonna see again I would love to do a delayhe Bugatti type 35 is one of my favorite cars of all time it’s like a halo car to me I’m never gonna ever be able to forward one even if I could buy a pur sang totally would, but there’s no way that that would even happen I don’t know if I could spend that kind of money on one car. lol I’m definitely in the camp that for 100 grand I would rather have 10 $10,000 cars than one $100,000 car and I’m also in the camp that it’s way more fun to drive a slow car fast than it is to drive a fast car fast Plus the slow cars you could use all of them and not get in any trouble. What’s weird is they made less V-8 than they did six cylinders but there’s way more information on the V8 than there is on the six I’m going to research the six when I go to Gilmore .. there’s some other engines that I want to cover that I can’t find information on this week. I was going to try to do the international Comanche for the 152/196, but there isn’t that much information on the Internet about them other than the 152 is half of the 304 and the 196 is half of the larger placement engine which I can’t remember off the top of my head but they did make a turbo version of the 152 but I don’t know if they made a turbo version of the 196 you would think that they would that’s a big four cylinder. Great choices as well.
I've know about the Wills St Claire since I was a kid (I'm 68) and have always been impressed by them. I have driven a friend's 1921 Stearns-Knight- it rode like a modern car and shifting took some getting used to but I was well impressed with it. I would have a hard time deciding between a WSC, any sleeve valve car and a Doble!
I’ve heard those sleeve valve engines are awesome. They burn a little oil but they’re silent just like silent night. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with these cars. Greatly appreciate it. Sweet choices
@@What.its.like. a friend in Michigan has several sleeve valve cars- 2 Stearns, a Willys and a Daimler which is in pieces. His Stearns that I drove may be the one in your video. he also said that the engines aren't difficult to rebuild, they only go together one way. They do smoke a bit but so what?
Have you ever been to the old car show at the Greenfield Village? It’s always the week after Labor Day in September. If you haven’t gone, I suggest you go I’m going to go this year it was like heaven for me. I don’t know how to really describe it. It’s one of the best shows I’ve ever been to if not the best show I’ve ever been to. All the cars are before 1932 and their drive them so you can smell them and experience them for what they were.
@@What.its.like. I have not been to that show but have been to the Meadowbrook show that later moved to The Inn at St John's. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Haven't been in a few years because of covid.
Dad spoke of the hupmoblle so ill vote there but he was known for 100$ cars😢 25 yrs old amazing engine. have a dohc chrysler 2.4. Ltr 65 hp maybe understated for a dohc v8 of that size the stude 259 cu had similar cu in w 170 hp or so ohv .only
I had never heard of this car or engine. Cool episode. I wonder what the engine sounded like. It looks like it had spiral bevel gears so it may have been very quiet. I'd take the Wills St. Claire in both scenarios.
Great presentation! Don't feel bad about mangling names, I still don't know how to pronounce molybdenum, although a commenter gave the pronunciation of both moly and vanadium. You also said that the engine has 7 main bearings, but the spec sheet at 3:50 says just 3. I would love to hear one of these engines run. WYR= yes to all.
@@What.its.like. That's why everybody just says moly, or chrome-moly. Edit: I would imagine that info on a Wills Ste Claire is not exactly easy to find. I think you did a good job.
I’m going to the Gilmore Museum in a couple weeks I was going to wait and do this engine after I did more research but I was able to find enough I think I wish I could’ve found some information on the pistons used connecting rods and combustion chamber, but I figured This was enough.. There’s other engines I wanna do that are really information. Isn’t there this week episode was actually going to be on the international Comanche four, but there isn’t that much information on it so I’m going to go to the library and see if I can find some more. Plus I don’t know do I just cover the four-cylinder or do I cover all of them because you could get it with a four-cylinder a six cylinder or V8 probably just cover the four-cylinder and then cover the V-8 another time just be easier I think Dusenberg beam is another engine. I really want to do that is very spotty at best.
What a brilliant design! So, you have a valve problem. You take the cylinder out, change the piston and rod, bcz they are also gone, swap a new/machined cylinder and put the engine back together in about 1,5 hours. 25 mins if in a hurry. Other than that, you change the oil two times per year and the setup will go on indefinitely. This should be the industry standard. Modular engines with reasonable capacity that you can service at the dealer within your lunch break, without destroying the economy.
Great information thank you so much for sharing all that insight what I find interesting is the sides have those little for lack of a better term where the gray is with the bolts you could take that out and see the valves but you can’t fix it from that access point which is a super interesting design choice. I guess you can see if the valve needs changed or fixed or adjusted
@@What.its.like. "Inspection hatch" :D :D A very common feature in old style engineering. In regular interval maintenance, things need to get looked at, maybe poked with a gauge or wiggled gently. Then add more lubricant and off you go. Talking about user friendly design. Things to do for a car enthusiast, but nothing seriously risky. My favorite part is the shaft driven cam. Simply the best design for a V engine, imo.
and perfectly balanced V8s have 90 degree bank angle - 60 degrees is very rare but not unknown, and works best with a balance shaft added (see 2nd generation Taurus SHO)
I totally agree, but I was reading what was in the advertisement piece. That’s why I put a lot of those advertisement pieces in there so you can read them as well.
Years later in 1965, Dearborn would make their own S.O.H.C. 427 V8. In my humble opinion, the nastiest factory engine ever invented! Even stronger than the 426 Hemi!
But it wasn't really a "factory" engine was it? To be truthful the first 426 Hemi wasn't either. And neither was the Chevy "Mystery engine". Chrysler did go on to build a production version of the Hemi later.
@@keithstudly6071 They built them for the stock car races, but they were required to build 500, or so for sale to the public. If the factory didn't build these engines, who did?
A 60° V angle does NOT give "absolute smoothness"; only a 90° V will give you that, and only with a cross-plane crank. From what the ad copy you show mentions, it seems this engine has a flat-plane crank, on which the V angle really doesn't make a whole lot of difference, unless it is put at 180° (making it a FLAT 8), otherwise there is always an uneven firing profile. However, with a flat-plane crank, the exhaust pulse profile IS perfectly even on each bank, reducing exhaust back pressure.
Look at the advertisement pieces, it says the total opposite maybe that was found out through history The advertisement pieces are really interesting read
Valve job must be a nightmare! Question... You did a vid a while back on a car that had an engine that had a slip cylinder wall or something... it was a really unusual but interesting design... did you ever do a follow upon the engine itself and I missed it?
I haven’t covered a sleeve valve yet as used in a willys knight definitely going to recover that engine. I just haven’t figured out how to go about it. Do I cover the engine or the engine design because the engine design was in a bunch of different cars
That engine is nice, but with the metallurgy of the day limiting valve life, and the primitive motor oils of the time it was impractical for regular automotive use. For most mechanics of the times, an engine like this was today's equivalent of "Rocket Science". Old folks like me will likely remember the 4- cylinder Offenhauser engine which dominated Indy-car racing for a long time. With it, the cylinder and head were cast as one, then bolted onto the block. They could take as much as 30psi of boost giving insane horsepower output with no head gaskets to fail. WYR is the Willys- Knight which had a very good reputation in the day, and of course the Jordan- the "playboy's" choice.
Thank you for sharing that insight and information as always. I totally dig reading all of the information and insight you provide even though sometimes I don’t respond with a comment just know that I really appreciate what you bring to this channel in the comment section =) Great choices by the way I would love to cover of Jordan Playboy this year. There’s so many cars that I want to cover this year. I know it’s gonna be like last year. I’m gonna get the Hershey and it’s gonna be over. It’s insane how fast the year goes once you get past April…
Great choices ford made a car out of hemp as well and took a soft blow hammer to it much like Elon did with the cybertruck and didn’t do any damage but then hemp was banned because yeah that’s touchy subject lol
@@What.its.like.Never heard of that, but Ford did make a car with some body panels manufactured in a plastic which was soybean based and had the color molded in. The problem with it was that it stunk- literally- and they could not figure out how to overcome the odor. Henry Ford never forgot his farm-boy roots and he backed experimental farms trying new growing techniques as well as laboratories which researched how agricultural products and waste could be put to new uses.
I’m a real person I don’t say that I’m the best of pronunciations it’s entertaining nonetheless Vanadium steel I wonder if Jay Leno or vice grip garage gets as much blowback from pronunciations as I do Derek likes to make up words, which I totally dig
Wills St. Claire for both! Yes I'm Ready, Barbara Mason?
Yeah buddy congratulations you got it =)
Well Done 👏👏👏👏
I had no clue 😂 ✌️🤠
I love to see how things were done long ago, engineering before the best way or better ways were out
Absolutely fascinating video. Well done!
Thank you so much. Glad you dig this video. I’ve been wanting to cover this engine for a while but I wasn’t sure if there was gonna be enough information on the Internet to do it. I was gonna wait until after I got back from the Gilmore autumn museum which I’m going to in a couple weeks I might make an announcement if anybody wanted to meet me up there, but I don’t know we’ll see lol
I remember in our local scrapyard they had a few old 20s cars in the back and one of them had an engine that looked just like this all the valve covers were off and you could see the over-head-valves and the gears driving them. If it was one of these I wish I would have taken it home. Sadly now their all gone melted down for scrap.
Wow that’s crazy they have a few of these at the Gilmore auto museum I love the profile I think because it looks like a Hispano suiza I was born too late I would have loved finding some of those engine in junk yards
Great history on a forgotten person that was a great automotive engineer, I got the book about the company and the man, he is up there with H.H. Franklin in engineering cars advanced for that time. His signature is on every Ford vehicle made, he designed the Ford script. First choice all three, second 1921 Jordan and throw in the Kissel.
I want to feature some Franklin engines for engine episode Wednesday it’s just I can never find enough information
Definitely going to cover the sleeve valve as well .. it was a crazy week this week and last week. Been trying to find engines that don’t take a long time to put together Pontiac V8 Cadillac V8 those ones are gonna take a while there’s a lot of different displacements to cover.
Great choices
@@What.its.like. I have 2 Franklin books when I get time I will look for some info too, soon as I send you the Ford truck info, and add Dodge heavy duty 6 cyl engines, been real busy too.
Thank you so much, Ben Parks it means the world to me to have two sets of eyes looking through information =)
You picked a great car to feature, Jay! I didn't know much about these, so thank you for the overview/review. This car is very impressive (and yes, those bumpers looks like those of a Lincoln).I'd take the Wills St. Claire in both cases.
Hupp by a nose 😂
All outstanding and beautiful auto's 👏👏👏👏👏
Happy Motoring ✌️🤠
Awesome =) by a country mile
Suiza is commonly pronounced as 'soo-za'.
Think about it. A few years later, there would be conventual flathead V8's producing alot more horsepower.
-Bevel gears for overhead cams would seem to be ideal but they need special attention with fitting [shims] and they use way more energy than chains or belts do. This is why they are not used in modern automobiles.
Wills didn't just work at Ford Motor Co., he was best man at Henry and Clara Ford's wedding. He got permission from Henry before leaving with the understanding that Wills would not compete directly with Ford Motor Co. Marysville didn't exist before the Wills factory, the town is named for his wife, Mary Wills. The Wills Ste. Claire Museum in Marysville is a nice place to visit.
Thank you so much for sharing all that great information =)
I was born in St. Clair County, Mish-Gin in Port Huron, and lived in Marine City when I was a baby in 1966-68, then in St. Clair itself in '68-'70. I lived down the street from Johnny Erickson, who's family owned the local Erickson drugs. This is a small town, and I rode my motorcycle from my parents house in Temperance in 1994. I wasn't impressed~
Awesome =)
Not many Wills St Claire cars were made, few survive. Jay Leno has one that he got as someone's former parts car. It is now a superb car, he has covered it in restoration blogs several times, and did a full video on it 3 years ago.
Yeah, I was watching his episode on it. It’s a pretty cool car according to Jay there’s only about 80 left. Gilmore had three last year when I was up there perhaps more I’m not sure. I definitely would love to cover one from the early error and I would love to cover a six cylinder. There isn’t as much on the Internet about the six cylinder engine. I’m going to the Gilmore not next week but the week after I might make a post about it , if anybody’s up in that area and they wanna meet up we can
@@What.its.like. It would be worth saying that the Hispano Suiza WW1 aero engine that inspired the Willis St Claire engine design was also made under licence in England by Wolseley and the USA by Curtis. Probably by others as well.
Hi Jay! Wills Sainte Claire is one of my favorite forgotten auto companies! They have a museum up there in Michigan that has at least two of the cars. The engine was GENIUS! WAY more than 10 years ahead of its time. Unfortunately, in those days advanced auto technology was expensive to develop and produce. That's why a lot of the exotic engines you saw at that time were in racing cars. Duesey's, MIllers, Ballot, Delage, Bugatti, etc. There is a very good book out there on Childe Harold Wills. I read it in a digital format, but it was a very good read! Amazon have it, I am pretty sure.
The museum I mentioned is in Marysville, Michigan and is called the Wills Sainte Claire Auto Museum. They have the largest collection of the cars in existence. WYR's are easy! WIlls for both! I have been fascinated with these cars for quite a few years. The Jordan was tempting, though! One more thing about Mr. Wills. He pioneered the use of molybdenum steel, which later became the very strong Chrome-Moly steels we have today! Go Wills!
Happy you dig this video there’s a few wills st Claire at the Gilmore Auto Museum. I’m going back there in a couple weeks I’m hoping to cover a couple or at least one they have some engines laying around too the greatest thing about the Gilmore is you can walk right up to those cars like it’s your car as long as you respect the car don’t touch it, it’s an awesome place to go
I’m gonna try to cover some stuff that I’m never gonna see again I would love to do a delayhe Bugatti type 35 is one of my favorite cars of all time it’s like a halo car to me I’m never gonna ever be able to forward one even if I could buy a pur sang totally would, but there’s no way that that would even happen I don’t know if I could spend that kind of money on one car. lol
I’m definitely in the camp that for 100 grand I would rather have 10 $10,000 cars than one $100,000 car and I’m also in the camp that it’s way more fun to drive a slow car fast than it is to drive a fast car fast Plus the slow cars you could use all of them and not get in any trouble.
What’s weird is they made less V-8 than they did six cylinders but there’s way more information on the V8 than there is on the six I’m going to research the six when I go to Gilmore .. there’s some other engines that I want to cover that I can’t find information on this week. I was going to try to do the international Comanche for the 152/196, but there isn’t that much information on the Internet about them other than the 152 is half of the 304 and the 196 is half of the larger placement engine which I can’t remember off the top of my head but they did make a turbo version of the 152 but I don’t know if they made a turbo version of the 196 you would think that they would that’s a big four cylinder. Great choices as well.
1922 Wills St.Claire.My great grand uncle ,a dentist in Detroit had oneThe first black dentist in Michigan..
I've know about the Wills St Claire since I was a kid (I'm 68) and have always been impressed by them. I have driven a friend's 1921 Stearns-Knight- it rode like a modern car and shifting took some getting used to but I was well impressed with it. I would have a hard time deciding between a WSC, any sleeve valve car and a Doble!
I’ve heard those sleeve valve engines are awesome. They burn a little oil but they’re silent just like silent night. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with these cars. Greatly appreciate it.
Sweet choices
@@What.its.like. a friend in Michigan has several sleeve valve cars- 2 Stearns, a Willys and a Daimler which is in pieces. His Stearns that I drove may be the one in your video. he also said that the engines aren't difficult to rebuild, they only go together one way. They do smoke a bit but so what?
Have you ever been to the old car show at the Greenfield Village? It’s always the week after Labor Day in September. If you haven’t gone, I suggest you go I’m going to go this year it was like heaven for me. I don’t know how to really describe it. It’s one of the best shows I’ve ever been to if not the best show I’ve ever been to. All the cars are before 1932 and their drive them so you can smell them and experience them for what they were.
@@What.its.like. I have not been to that show but have been to the Meadowbrook show that later moved to The Inn at St John's. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Haven't been in a few years because of covid.
Dad spoke of the hupmoblle so ill vote there but he was known for 100$ cars😢 25 yrs old amazing engine. have a dohc chrysler 2.4. Ltr 65 hp maybe understated for a dohc v8 of that size the stude 259 cu had similar cu in w 170 hp or so ohv .only
It’s Wills St. Claire for both WYR scenarios.
I’m coming up with Are You Ready by Barbara Mason
No, it is Yes I’m Ready
Oh, snap, I missed it again 😂
Great choices somebody just beat you for title
I had never heard of this car or engine. Cool episode. I wonder what the engine sounded like. It looks like it had spiral bevel gears so it may have been very quiet. I'd take the Wills St. Claire in both scenarios.
Sweet choices
Sounds like this
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@@What.its.like. Cool. Thanks.
Great presentation! Don't feel bad about mangling names, I still don't know how to pronounce molybdenum, although a commenter gave the pronunciation of both moly and vanadium. You also said that the engine has 7 main bearings, but the spec sheet at 3:50 says just 3. I would love to hear one of these engines run. WYR= yes to all.
Yeah conflicting information found a typo as well on slide 1923 not 24 lol
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Molybdenum hard word to say lol
@@What.its.like. That's why everybody just says moly, or chrome-moly.
Edit: I would imagine that info on a Wills Ste Claire is not exactly easy to find. I think you did a good job.
I’m going to the Gilmore Museum in a couple weeks I was going to wait and do this engine after I did more research but I was able to find enough I think I wish I could’ve found some information on the pistons used connecting rods and combustion chamber, but I figured This was enough..
There’s other engines I wanna do that are really information. Isn’t there this week episode was actually going to be on the international Comanche four, but there isn’t that much information on it so I’m going to go to the library and see if I can find some more.
Plus I don’t know do I just cover the four-cylinder or do I cover all of them because you could get it with a four-cylinder a six cylinder or V8 probably just cover the four-cylinder and then cover the V-8 another time just be easier I think
Dusenberg beam is another engine. I really want to do that is very spotty at best.
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What a brilliant design! So, you have a valve problem. You take the cylinder out, change the piston and rod, bcz they are also gone, swap a new/machined cylinder and put the engine back together in about 1,5 hours. 25 mins if in a hurry. Other than that, you change the oil two times per year and the setup will go on indefinitely. This should be the industry standard. Modular engines with reasonable capacity that you can service at the dealer within your lunch break, without destroying the economy.
Great information thank you so much for sharing all that insight what I find interesting is the sides have those little for lack of a better term where the gray is with the bolts you could take that out and see the valves but you can’t fix it from that access point which is a super interesting design choice. I guess you can see if the valve needs changed or fixed or adjusted
@@What.its.like. "Inspection hatch" :D :D A very common feature in old style engineering. In regular interval maintenance, things need to get looked at, maybe poked with a gauge or wiggled gently. Then add more lubricant and off you go. Talking about user friendly design. Things to do for a car enthusiast, but nothing seriously risky. My favorite part is the shaft driven cam. Simply the best design for a V engine, imo.
and perfectly balanced V8s have 90 degree bank angle - 60 degrees is very rare but not unknown, and works best with a balance shaft added (see 2nd generation Taurus SHO)
I totally agree, but I was reading what was in the advertisement piece. That’s why I put a lot of those advertisement pieces in there so you can read them as well.
Years later in 1965, Dearborn would make their own S.O.H.C. 427 V8.
In my humble opinion, the nastiest factory engine ever invented! Even stronger than the 426 Hemi!
Great information
Don't forget the OHC Pontiac 6, not near as powerful but just as sophisticated, another overlooked engine.
But it wasn't really a "factory" engine was it? To be truthful the first 426 Hemi wasn't either. And neither was the Chevy "Mystery engine". Chrysler did go on to build a production version of the Hemi later.
Definitely going to cover that one. Maybe that one will be next week who knows haven’t gotten that far yet lol.
@@keithstudly6071
They built them for the stock car races, but they were required to build 500, or so for sale to the public. If the factory didn't build these engines, who did?
A 60° V angle does NOT give "absolute smoothness"; only a 90° V will give you that, and only with a cross-plane crank. From what the ad copy you show mentions, it seems this engine has a flat-plane crank, on which the V angle really doesn't make a whole lot of difference, unless it is put at 180° (making it a FLAT 8), otherwise there is always an uneven firing profile. However, with a flat-plane crank, the exhaust pulse profile IS perfectly even on each bank, reducing exhaust back pressure.
Look at the advertisement pieces, it says the total opposite maybe that was found out through history
The advertisement pieces are really interesting read
@alexclement7221 You are dead right about vibration, bank angle and cross plane crank.
Valve job must be a nightmare! Question... You did a vid a while back on a car that had an engine that had a slip cylinder wall or something... it was a really unusual but interesting design... did you ever do a follow upon the engine itself and I missed it?
I haven’t covered a sleeve valve yet as used in a willys knight definitely going to recover that engine. I just haven’t figured out how to go about it. Do I cover the engine or the engine design because the engine design was in a bunch of different cars
Check out the meteor aircraft engine from WW2. Sleeve valves and a million gears. Really complicated engine but 2500hp.
wills saint clare
Willys knight and huppmobile would be my choices
That engine is nice, but with the metallurgy of the day limiting valve life, and the primitive motor oils of the time it was impractical for regular automotive use. For most mechanics of the times, an engine like this was today's equivalent of "Rocket Science". Old folks like me will likely remember the 4- cylinder Offenhauser engine which dominated Indy-car racing for a long time. With it, the cylinder and head were cast as one, then bolted onto the block. They could take as much as 30psi of boost giving insane horsepower output with no head gaskets to fail.
WYR is the Willys- Knight which had a very good reputation in the day, and of course the Jordan- the "playboy's" choice.
Thank you for sharing that insight and information as always. I totally dig reading all of the information and insight you provide even though sometimes I don’t respond with a comment just know that I really appreciate what you bring to this channel in the comment section =)
Great choices by the way I would love to cover of Jordan Playboy this year. There’s so many cars that I want to cover this year. I know it’s gonna be like last year. I’m gonna get the Hershey and it’s gonna be over. It’s insane how fast the year goes once you get past April…
You said molybdenum right, mate. Moly. 😊 Cheers from New Zealand
Haha I will be the first to admit that I’m not the best of pronunciations lol
At the very least, it’s very entertaining, right
WYR: All of them.
Vanadium steel is tough. You can crash a car made of it and never be able to tell.
Great choices ford made a car out of hemp as well and took a soft blow hammer to it much like Elon did with the cybertruck and didn’t do any damage but then hemp was banned because yeah that’s touchy subject lol
@@What.its.like. 🎶We don't talk about that mary jane.🎶
Technically two different plants from the same family
@@What.its.like. Exactly.
@@What.its.like.Never heard of that, but Ford did make a car with some body panels manufactured in a plastic which was soybean based and had the color molded in. The problem with it was that it stunk- literally- and they could not figure out how to overcome the odor. Henry Ford never forgot his farm-boy roots and he backed experimental farms trying new growing techniques as well as laboratories which researched how agricultural products and waste could be put to new uses.
The Love Boat Jack Jones?
It was yes I’m ready Barbara Mason
Molybdenum, aka Molly be Damned
The Hispano Suiza aeroengine used gears to drive the camshafts via bevel gears and tower shafts. Just like here.
I wonder what the efficiency of energy transfer is between belts vs gears.
Yeah, Vernadium? Vanadium and Mo-lyb-de-num..
Saint Claire
Sweet choice
muh - LIB - den - umm vah - NAY - dee - umm
7 main bearings don't make any sense for a V8. 5 are the rule. Conceivably if the 2 banks had a lot of offset, you could have 9.
That was conflicting information. One source said seven main bearings. Turns out it only has three.
willis-knight and jordan.
no clue about the song.
Sweet choices
Stephenkeever6 got it for title
Yes I’m ready Barbara mason
Willys and Huppmobile.
Sweet choices =)
I can't pick. If I had the means all the above.
Sweet choice =)
Stearns
Wills
Sweet choices =)
"Vernadium steel"? There is no such thing....
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Is this an AI video?
I’m a real person I don’t say that I’m the best of pronunciations it’s entertaining nonetheless
Vanadium steel
I wonder if Jay Leno or vice grip garage gets as much blowback from pronunciations as I do Derek likes to make up words, which I totally dig
pronunciation please............
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