It's gonna be incredible, I didn't expect you to go for a v12 the racing is more about showing the builds off rather than winning the race I look forward to the upcoming videos.
You need to recruitAllen Millyard to the team, he's nearly finished rebuilding the Norton Nemesis V8 and having made the Flying Millyard. a 5 litre Aero engined motor cycle, you two would have a lot in common.
I was also thinking exactly the same. I can see it now - Dom banging out parts on the plasma table like they're going out of fashion. Reciprocal visits to Millard Manor where bits of metal get magically turned into parts using nothing more than an old hacksaw, a lathe and milling machine. Tracey could go into full cake production mode, and even Charlie Weaver could be employed to keep Wendy occupied! Even if this doesn't pan out, a field visit to see each other's man caves must surely be on the cards? This sounds like a match made in heaven. The only problem will be explaining to Henry how long you need to borrow Allen for.......
For me, your best journey yet.👏 Give Allen Millyard a call and get him onboard with this amazing project as he will solve any problem (the best engineer on any engine that's a bit different). Great 👍
Great to see the Mosquito build, my great grandfather was a joiner and worked on repairing them during the war, they once had one come in with incendiarys lodged in the wings from flying back under the path of the bombers following! We still have great granny's foot stool he made from mosquito ply, incredibly thin wood.
I'm an aerospace engineer who repaired and rebuilt helicopters out in places like Afghanistan and on the back of ships. A lot of those frame assembly drawings look the same, but it blows my mind that people are still working them to restore Birch ply Mosquito fuselages. Thank you so much for shining the spotlight on this inspiring work!
There is a guy in New Zealand (Avspecs) spent 27 years putting together a mosquito production process including all the jigs and moulds shown. He makes mosquitos fuselages and wings. I went to an aero museum in the States (Virginia Beach Air Museum) and saw a rebuilt flying mosquito awesome. I went to see the American Warbirds and found they had a collection of WWI and WWII aircraft from various nations. Well worth a visit. On another trip to Norfolk Virginia I saw one of the largest WWII Battleship Wisconsin berthed at Nauticus again a great visit for someone keen on military history. It’s a shame the UK was totally broke after WWII maybe we could have kept HMS Vanguard for posterity and visits. It would have been great to have as well as the Cruiser Belfast moored on the Thames.
@@nudger70 unlike modern motor sports I like the sportsmanship and camaraderie associated with theses older, extremely more dangerous shenanigans, true nutcases w balls of steel fp👍
Great project. I had wanted to build a WW1 aero engine car for decades but knew the engine would be unprocurable in Australia. Then I had a V12 702 ci unfinished project car fall into my lap so to speak, back in late 2023, now on the road. I will be watching your progress eagerly.
Garfield Wood. The Great Lakes area of the USA had an active boat racing series - Gold Cup - started in 1904. It drew tens of thousands of spectators to the shores of the lake cities. Detroit was the main hub. A handful of daring racers modified the hull shapes & crammed anything with more power between the stringers including, as you’ve noted aircraft engines. Looking forward to the build!
I wouldn't run it without a tear down,inspection n rebuild first. From experience l've found its saved me expensively in the long term,not to mention the peace of mind. Congratulations and thanks for the retrotech footage...awesome chaps doing awesome work!
Love your channel, and I’m here in Detroit. Was looking around the states and found your doppelgänger. He’s a mechanic who works on Liberty v12’s and has lots of parts, you guys share the same name… Dominic Spediacci from Speedi Marine, he’s in Oregon. He’s also got a UA-cam channel. Hope this helps……Keep up the great work Marc Williams
my dream aero car will have a gipsy major, 4 cylinder, inline engine and i am good! wonderful project, not many left out there that do this type of stuff, i love it!
This is a fantastic project! More power, more noise, more spectacle! There is no such thing as 'too much' when it comes to these vehicles. Bigger is always better! The best YT channel bar none now!
biggest not have better, today small engine can take out lot more power than old big heavy engines ewer can. weight have important not size. only brainless idiot redneck can think today biggest is better,
After 30 years in aviation, It was like a bad dream hearing what you learned about Airplanes. We used to say when the paperwork weighs as much as the Airplane its done!
we just subscribed because its too exciting to see a liberty powered car come to life. the exhaust on the outside for sure. we will keep our eyes peeled for liberty parts.
Brilliant stuff. We can all see that you have the vision and capability to complete this. I really looking forward to hearing it run. Be nice to have Ivan there on the day to talk about it and assist.
Dom, you nutter!! I don’t even like cars and engines but I’m totally hooked! What have you done?! Can’t wait for more episodes. Thank you for searching out and sharing the work of those craftsmen. Superb effort!
I just got your video in my recommendations and I immediately subbed! The idea and the proces of building a car around that engine has a huge appeal to me. The tour of the Retrotec workshop was great, what an amount of skill and knowledge. The thrill of seeing a Bf109-E flying somewhere in the future is very thrilling. And all this reminds me how lucky I am. I just found a new job after the closure of the company where I worked for more than 25 years in a production environment. The first commission in that job is the restauration of a 1938 diesel locomotive, and working on something that old is so satisfying. It needs a lot of dedication and ingenuity to get things done. It would be cool to see some of that air foil shaped tube used in the car build, the pulling bench was really a gigantic version of a pulling bench as used in silver and goldsmithing.
Congratulations on finding the motor. A lot of very talented people at the aeroplane restoration shop. You need to dosome more merchandise so we can help support the new car build
Brilliant video . What a project and as for RETOTEC …the amount of skill and knowledge is unbelievably amazing . I’d imagine people would queue just for a tour and words of wisdom , there’d be no work done … but soaking in the history and knowledge 😂 fantastic
Biggest congratulations on the V12 acquisition, this just HAS to be the way to go in making a really special Edwardian. I jokingly suggested a straight-eight or a V12 when you first found the chassis. Now you just have to tame that 300 plus Horse-power and get it to the rear wheels , without them collapsing around their hubs! Good luck!
I worked every weekend for over 12 years on Babs and this brings up many very happy memories. Am really looking forward to this project and wish you all the very best. It’s going to be super mega!
Great video, Dom! At around 10 mins, when you talk about the ‘trail’ back to the raw ,arterial, it’s called full traceability. Still applies today (I work in the aerospace defence industry now) and we cannot buy anything that isn’t fully traceable.
You're in knowledgeable hands with Guy. He, along with other members of the HAE technical group, can probably answer any aero engine enquiry you may have.
@@DominicChineasthis one just came across : 27liter v12 hispano suiza, over here in a german classifieds portal. They call 50k. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, i think
I just happened to find your channel, I have subscribed and of course liked this video. Can't wait to see the progress on your project. Hello from the great northwest of the United States.
Nice choice of the Liberty, Dom! Just a pity that the Lycoming flat 12 wasn't within the years you wanted, it would have been a very interesting project being air cooled but you wouldn't want it idling too long on the grid!
Score! I think a bus chassis might be needed for this one! But I'd consider the transmission too small to hold up under the torque. Just a thought. Best of luck with this venture! It's going to be fun and a great learning experience for the audience.
Loving the videos every week. Keep them coming. Thought you might have been searching for an aero engine at Brooklands on Thursday. Thanks for giving me and my boys a wave when you arrived. They pestered me to go and say hello as I watch your UA-cam videos and The Repair Shop but I figured the last thing you needed was some random bloke at your window after a long drive. Hope you had as good a time as us. It’s amazing there.
Great news Dom. I have found over many years it is always worth running an engine up on a test bench before it is installed. It makes life so much easier from everything from starting procedure to tracing oil leaks. I made a universal test stand and just chop or weld different brackets on for each different type of engine. All the best with your project and like everyone else I will be watching for your next video. Tony Hillyard, Normandy France
If you have to keep the Gar Wood marine configuration, you could name your car “Inside Out”! Thank you so much for the tour of the amazing Aero collection.
Fantastic! Spent the final 13 years of my aviation career working with vintage aircraft and got to know Guy very well. Now subscribed and looking forward to the next episode 👍👍
This episode was particularly facinating for me because my first job out of college was in the quality assurance department of General Dynamics at the plant where they built F16 fighter jets. Being able to track the history of a part back to the original billet of metal that it was created from was critical because a part failure in the field could trigger an inspection order for all the other parts made from that billet.
Dom that was an incredible video! Super interesting in all respects. As a child I thought that those wooden bombers were bogus, I mean everyone else was flying metal planes, no? Then after checking out some WW 2 aircraft, I realized the thickness of the metal wasn't that impressive, nor any more structurally sound than a well made wooden one. When viewing the hull halves and bulkheads I was thinking of wooden boat construction. Then Garr Wood came up. I know of Garr Woods as a racer and boat builder. I initially started watching your channel becasue of the 356 A (an am still wanting to see more) but this Areocar is extreemly cool, I envison it with a long pointed tail, so cool! Can't wait to see more!
Neil was all over Guy Black's aircraft workshop and the history in there. In other news "oh my days Dom"!!! 😂 we'll be watching for a long as it takes. 👏
I'm fortunate to live near a hawker sea fury aircraft that won many air races and has been restored to back to stock here in the US I see and hear it fly all the time along with t 56 and At 6 quite often
Cor blimey you do like a challenge don't you ;) Get in touch with Geraint Owen, who has Babs - he's an engineer and very approachable and will I'm sure have some helpful suggestions. That aside, what a wonderful episode. Loved seeing inside the aeroplane workshop. The Mosquito build is mind boggling - not just in how it was built but also to think of them mass producing them like that during the war. Wonderful stuff.
I remember air start trucks in the 70s, probably still able to find those systems on the second hand market. They were absolutely terrifying if you happened to be anywhere near one when they started...they were loud, very loud.
My 1st semi tractor had an Ingersoll-Rand air starter for the Cummins diesel. Air reservoir tank was a 1 ft diameter x 6ft long vertical cylinder mounted behind the cab. In the winter 2 attempts at most. My neighbors loathed, hated, & despised me at 4:30 - 5 am
Dom, Who supplied the ignition for your engine? Remy, Atwater Kent, Bosch??? It could share some components with other engines. It would be helpful to know this to aid your search. I know a guy in Wisconsin that has some crazy old stuff.
I have a photo somewhere where a Guy named Stewart Saunders in Australia put a liberty bomber engine in a car built on an early racing car style. It looked pretty cool_ with its big round brass fuel tank on the back. I think he used to belong to a vintage car group in Canberrra.
Dom, your channel has just shifted up a gear. Im looking forward to this project. I served my time in the RN in the engine room department, i love these sorts of channels, especially yours. Good luck with the build
I'm a boat builder. Everything the cabinet maker was doing, I used to do. I used to build prototype parts, sections, and complete boats. What these guys have in there heads, I totally get it all. And the paper trails, yep, exactly the same. I'm in the West Midlands and if anyone needs anything, I'm still working. Making furniture, teaching. But bucks, parts for anything one off, I'm available. I'm not self promoting. I'm just saying I'm a resource that you or a viewer could use. These skills are dying out. Use it or loose it. Jamie
What a beast of an engine 😮 that's got to be a full strip and rebuild Dom. And when testing the engine make sure the frame is bolted down. When I was at college in Ashford we used to have Ford 2.0l OHC on frames and rattle around enough 😂. Also look at the spitfire engine Guy Martin did to see what happens 😮.
Ahh our Dom... this is going to be amazing! Can't wait to see how this project unfolds. I know your wee community of 3 years on here will come through for you and your bits and bobs, our Dom. Welcome back to the fold, our Cameraman Dan! xx
Hi Dominic, Wow, this is houng to be an interesting project, thank you for your time to film and allow us to share it. What about having a word with Mr.Duncan Pitaway who owns the Beast of Turin FIAT car, he might be able to point you in the direction of building such a machine. Utterly bonkers and eccentric but a very interesting person involved in the Edwardian racing scene. Rgds, Peter.
If you want an air start they have been used and are still used on trucks here in Australia. It could be modified to use on your engine. Also Russian V12 tank engines use a similar port injection air system.
Wow! What an amazing episode. Great to see Retrotec and get an insight into what they do. We have some amazing and talented engineers in this country. It's so important that we celebrate these people and work to get young people involved. Many thanks for sharing your world with us.
Hmm...I live in southern mid Michigan in the US. We see all kinds of stuff around here...I have seen a couple restored Liberty v12s at vintage air shows, etc. I'll keep my eyes open..
Fabricate the intake to fit American predator carbs, 950cfm have one for every 2 cylinders. If you want your intake on the inside it's quite tricky, you will need a new camshaft making..... good excuse for a modern profile, more degrees etc? Fit electronic ignition be fairly simple.. You could have tuned length exhaust headers!
Awesome for getting an engine, now the parts hunts begin, :) ,only big thought is whoever gets to drive it really will have to be on their toes because of the power it will be putting out, and taking the time to learn how to drive it etc... great job Dom, looking forward to all of the videos that we will be able to watch and see the restoration/ manufacture on the aero car!
This turned up in my recommended list, don't know why - probably the aviation theme as I'm a pilot and watch a bit of aviaiton stuff... anyway, watched it all - it would have been nice to start with a quick precis of what you are trying to achieve for those of us joining the conversation in the middle like me. :)
I have to say this is ferking interesting, thank you for doing this video, I even started looking a info on De Havilland just out of interest, STOP IT I have enough thing to detract me from my car restoration no wonder I have been restoring one car for 36 years :(
Some.....15 years ago? On a bike tour, we stumbled upon an open barn with a Dragon Rapide of all things. Rode down to visit and found someone to talk to who had been flying his home built from the grass strip. So many things to see, then the guy said, something about a Comet. Took me a few seconds to understand what he was talking about. The owner of the farm, was in the process of building a copy, not a replica, a copy from original drawings, of a DH Comet racer. He had mostly finished the fuselage, which wasn't built of plywood like a mosquito, but of individual strips of birch. Kind of like plywood that was made in place around the fuselage? Fascinating place and fascinating guy. Never actually met him, he died not long after. Several of his projects are now in New Zealand and are slowly being finished.
I sincerely hope that the bottom end of the engine is good. The thought of 12 lots of big ends and regrinding the crankshaft makes me shiver, and I wouldn't even be paying for it. Good luck and best wishes.
Fascinating project. If you need to reduce the output just don't floor the throttle just like you do in a road car, or if you don't trust yourself reduce pedal travel.
Dominic, there is a 1930's vintage film of a Gar Wood built Liberty engined boat on UA-cam, with the induction in the central V and the exhausts on the outsides of the V.
Exciting. Thanks for the mention. Look forward to seeing it all. Ivan
No problem 👍 thanks so much for all of your help
It's gonna be incredible, I didn't expect you to go for a v12 the racing is more about showing the builds off rather than winning the race I look forward to the upcoming videos.
To fit the engine into the car you will probably have to move the front seats further back but the sound that V12 will make will be amazing
You are quite right, it does sound bonkers. But isn’t it what it’s all about?
Why should the kids have all the fun?
@@Qspecialman 👍😊
You need to recruitAllen Millyard to the team, he's nearly finished rebuilding the Norton Nemesis V8 and having made the Flying Millyard. a 5 litre Aero engined motor cycle, you two would have a lot in common.
I thought exactly the same!
I was also thinking exactly the same. I can see it now - Dom banging out parts on the plasma table like they're going out of fashion. Reciprocal visits to Millard Manor where bits of metal get magically turned into parts using nothing more than an old hacksaw, a lathe and milling machine. Tracey could go into full cake production mode, and even Charlie Weaver could be employed to keep Wendy occupied! Even if this doesn't pan out, a field visit to see each other's man caves must surely be on the cards? This sounds like a match made in heaven. The only problem will be explaining to Henry how long you need to borrow Allen for.......
For me, your best journey yet.👏
Give Allen Millyard a call and get him onboard with this amazing project as he will solve any problem (the best engineer on any engine that's a bit different). Great 👍
There are lots of clever people out there.
Allen is a mad genius. That would make for a great collaboration.
Great to see the Mosquito build, my great grandfather was a joiner and worked on repairing them during the war, they once had one come in with incendiarys lodged in the wings from flying back under the path of the bombers following! We still have great granny's foot stool he made from mosquito ply, incredibly thin wood.
I'm an aerospace engineer who repaired and rebuilt helicopters out in places like Afghanistan and on the back of ships. A lot of those frame assembly drawings look the same, but it blows my mind that people are still working them to restore Birch ply Mosquito fuselages. Thank you so much for shining the spotlight on this inspiring work!
There have been four rebuilt to airworthiness in NZ, same process as here, scratch building the cold molded plywood fuselage parts from drawings.
Great video very interesting looking forward to seeing your progress with this well presented 👍👍
Big thumbs up. I’m a carpenter and my heart was racing watching that guy explaining the process of making the fuselage.
Isn’t it incredible!
Absolutely. It was so thrilling.
There is a guy in New Zealand (Avspecs) spent 27 years putting together a mosquito production process including all the jigs and moulds shown. He makes mosquitos fuselages and wings. I went to an aero museum in the States (Virginia Beach Air Museum) and saw a rebuilt flying mosquito awesome. I went to see the American Warbirds and found they had a collection of WWI and WWII aircraft from various nations. Well worth a visit. On another trip to Norfolk Virginia I saw one of the largest WWII Battleship Wisconsin berthed at Nauticus again a great visit for someone keen on military history. It’s a shame the UK was totally broke after WWII maybe we could have kept HMS Vanguard for posterity and visits. It would have been great to have as well as the Cruiser Belfast moored on the Thames.
Hi Dominic I’m Nigel the machinist from Retrotec , if you need any help or advice on anything you need making then give me a shout
Thank you so much! It was a pleasure meeting you
Top man, I’m sure he will be in touch soon 😂😂👍❤️
@@DominicChineas likewise
@@nudger70 unlike modern motor sports I like the sportsmanship and camaraderie associated with theses older, extremely more dangerous shenanigans, true nutcases w balls of steel fp👍
You and your colleagues to remarkable work.
Great project. I had wanted to build a WW1 aero engine car for decades but knew the engine would be unprocurable in Australia. Then I had a V12 702 ci unfinished project car fall into my lap so to speak, back in late 2023, now on the road. I will be watching your progress eagerly.
Garfield Wood. The Great Lakes area of the USA had an active boat racing series - Gold Cup - started in 1904. It drew tens of thousands of spectators to the shores of the lake cities. Detroit was the main hub. A handful of daring racers modified the hull shapes & crammed anything with more power between the stringers including, as you’ve noted aircraft engines. Looking forward to the build!
I would love to see you with Guy Martin involved in the project. What a pair of crazy people 👍👍👍
I’d love to do that!!
I wouldn't run it without a tear down,inspection n rebuild first. From experience l've found its saved me expensively in the long term,not to mention the peace of mind. Congratulations and thanks for the retrotech footage...awesome chaps doing awesome work!
Love your channel, and I’m here in Detroit.
Was looking around the states and found your doppelgänger. He’s a mechanic who works on Liberty v12’s and has lots of parts, you guys share the same name… Dominic Spediacci from Speedi Marine, he’s in Oregon. He’s also got a UA-cam channel.
Hope this helps……Keep up the great work
Marc Williams
my dream aero car will have a gipsy major, 4 cylinder, inline engine and i am good! wonderful project, not many left out there that do this type of stuff, i love it!
I know nothing about this and can’t help at all in your quest but when you bought the exhaust out and you’re enthusiasm bought a tear to my eye
What a find and a great opportunity to build a period correct racer ! Can’t wait to see it coming together.
This is a fantastic project! More power, more noise, more spectacle! There is no such thing as 'too much' when it comes to these vehicles. Bigger is always better! The best YT channel bar none now!
Sorry but no bigger isn’t always better.. and that’s coming from a guy who has owned 2 lafrance speedsters..:😂
biggest not have better, today small engine can take out lot more power than old big heavy engines ewer can. weight have important not size. only brainless idiot redneck can think today biggest is better,
After 30 years in aviation, It was like a bad dream hearing what you learned about Airplanes. We used to say when the paperwork weighs as much as the Airplane its done!
A plane flies, a tree dies.
Well done, Mr Chinea.All your projects are great to look forward to.
we just subscribed because its too exciting to see a liberty powered car come to life. the exhaust on the outside for sure. we will keep our eyes peeled for liberty parts.
Thanks!
So pleased to see you have the engine! What kind of back axle is needed tobtake that kind of power? 🙂
A strong one!
Brilliant stuff. We can all see that you have the vision and capability to complete this. I really looking forward to hearing it run. Be nice to have Ivan there on the day to talk about it and assist.
Fantastic visit to Retrotec.
Dom, you nutter!! I don’t even like cars and engines but I’m totally hooked! What have you done?! Can’t wait for more episodes. Thank you for searching out and sharing the work of those craftsmen. Superb effort!
Thanks so much! I appreciate it
I just got your video in my recommendations and I immediately subbed! The idea and the proces of building a car around that engine has a huge appeal to me.
The tour of the Retrotec workshop was great, what an amount of skill and knowledge. The thrill of seeing a Bf109-E flying somewhere in the future is very thrilling.
And all this reminds me how lucky I am. I just found a new job after the closure of the company where I worked for more than 25 years in a production environment.
The first commission in that job is the restauration of a 1938 diesel locomotive, and working on something that old is so satisfying. It needs a lot of dedication and ingenuity to get things done.
It would be cool to see some of that air foil shaped tube used in the car build, the pulling bench was really a gigantic version of a pulling bench as used in silver and goldsmithing.
Congratulations on finding the motor. A lot of very talented people at the aeroplane restoration shop. You need to dosome more merchandise so we can help support the new car build
Thank you for the support it is very much appreciated, keyrings are on the way!
Brilliant video . What a project and as for RETOTEC …the amount of skill and knowledge is unbelievably amazing . I’d imagine people would queue just for a tour and words of wisdom , there’d be no work done … but soaking in the history and knowledge 😂 fantastic
Biggest congratulations on the V12 acquisition, this just HAS to be the way to go in making a really special Edwardian. I jokingly suggested a straight-eight or a V12 when you first found the chassis. Now you just have to tame that 300 plus Horse-power and get it to the rear wheels , without them collapsing around their hubs! Good luck!
I worked every weekend for over 12 years on Babs and this brings up many very happy memories. Am really looking forward to this project and wish you all the very best. It’s going to be super mega!
That must have been fantastic. That's has a liberty v12 doesn't it?
My grandad was born in 1909 and was a carpenter. In ww2 he built Mosquito planes for the war effort. He was the cleverest person I’ve ever met.
Great video, Dom! At around 10 mins, when you talk about the ‘trail’ back to the raw ,arterial, it’s called full traceability. Still applies today (I work in the aerospace defence industry now) and we cannot buy anything that isn’t fully traceable.
Dom, this has got to be your most exciting project yet!!!!! i think we are all with you for the long haul with this one, good luck mate :-0
I hope it won’t be too long! But it is a big job, thank you for the support
wow found this by accident ,, can i say dominic what a great vid ,, well done on the project im gonna follow this now
You're in knowledgeable hands with Guy. He, along with other members of the HAE technical group, can probably answer any aero engine enquiry you may have.
You're a lunatic I love it. Would the Bovington
tank museum have any parts for your engine?
Well, now. You have an engine. A rather massive one, at that. Congratulations. One step closer.
And a gearbox!
Well done Dom. Really excited to see how it all progresses. You didn’t talk much about the gearbox. Will be interesting to hear all about it.
@@DominicChineasthis one just came across : 27liter v12 hispano suiza, over here in a german classifieds portal. They call 50k. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, i think
I just happened to find your channel, I have subscribed and of course liked this video. Can't wait to see the progress on your project. Hello from the great northwest of the United States.
Thanks for subbing!
Nice choice of the Liberty, Dom! Just a pity that the Lycoming flat 12 wasn't within the years you wanted, it would have been a very interesting project being air cooled but you wouldn't want it idling too long on the grid!
I know!! I’d love to have had the flat 12, how mad is that!
Score!
I think a bus chassis might be needed for this one! But I'd consider the transmission too small to hold up under the torque. Just a thought. Best of luck with this venture! It's going to be fun and a great learning experience for the audience.
Cooler than dang it! Amazing to tee the work and passion till alive in these work shops across the pond…and 450 hp but what is the torque number???
Utterly fascinating. Retrotec should a 6 part Sky documentary series. That was amazing, thank you.
Thanks for the education dom.
From SW Ontario cheers. John😊
Retrotec are just incredible. What a privilege to see it.
Such an amazing place! Glad you enjoyed the video
This will be fun to follow. Thanks for bringing us all along.
Thanks for watching!
Loving the videos every week. Keep them coming. Thought you might have been searching for an aero engine at Brooklands on Thursday. Thanks for giving me and my boys a wave when you arrived. They pestered me to go and say hello as I watch your UA-cam videos and The Repair Shop but I figured the last thing you needed was some random bloke at your window after a long drive. Hope you had as good a time as us. It’s amazing there.
Great news Dom.
I have found over many years it is always worth running an engine up on a test bench before it is installed. It makes life so much easier from everything from starting procedure to tracing oil leaks. I made a universal test stand and just chop or weld different brackets on for each different type of engine.
All the best with your project and like everyone else I will be watching for your next video.
Tony Hillyard, Normandy France
If you have to keep the Gar Wood marine configuration, you could name your car “Inside Out”! Thank you so much for the tour of the amazing Aero collection.
Fascinating.
Don’t forget to do some on the 356.
Be nice to see you finish a project
Fantastic! Spent the final 13 years of my aviation career working with vintage aircraft and got to know Guy very well. Now subscribed and looking forward to the next episode 👍👍
Welcome aboard! Thank you, every episode won’t be about this, but I hope you will stick around
@@DominicChineas Oh yes, rust and dirty fingernails, you've got me 😁😁
That’s one hell of a project can’t wait to see what you do with it.
What a Brilliant video. I don't have the words to do justice to the talent and skills these men possess. Good on you for Highlighting these men.
Thank you very much!
Very nice stuff thank you for the inspiration. Just made my head explode thinking of new ideas for my workshop kind regards pete
Glad to hear it! Thank you
This was so good I had to watch it twice
I really appreciate that! Thank you
I'd bet that the Garwood conversion pieces are worth a good bit to the right person.
yes anyone thats into speed boat stuff they would be perfect!
This episode was particularly facinating for me because my first job out of college was in the quality assurance department of General Dynamics at the plant where they built F16 fighter jets. Being able to track the history of a part back to the original billet of metal that it was created from was critical because a part failure in the field could trigger an inspection order for all the other parts made from that billet.
I know absolutely nothing about these era of cars or engines, but I’m here for it! Looking forward to seeing what you do 👍👍
Dom that was an incredible video! Super interesting in all respects. As a child I thought that those wooden bombers were bogus, I mean everyone else was flying metal planes, no? Then after checking out some WW 2 aircraft, I realized the thickness of the metal wasn't that impressive, nor any more structurally sound than a well made wooden one. When viewing the hull halves and bulkheads I was thinking of wooden boat construction. Then Garr Wood came up. I know of Garr Woods as a racer and boat builder. I initially started watching your channel becasue of the 356 A (an am still wanting to see more) but this Areocar is extreemly cool, I envison it with a long pointed tail, so cool! Can't wait to see more!
this project is going to be exciting to follow
Neil was all over Guy Black's aircraft workshop and the history in there.
In other news "oh my days Dom"!!! 😂 we'll be watching for a long as it takes. 👏
I'm fortunate to live near a hawker sea fury aircraft that won many air races and has been restored to back to stock here in the US I see and hear it fly all the time along with t 56 and At 6 quite often
Cor blimey you do like a challenge don't you ;) Get in touch with Geraint Owen, who has Babs - he's an engineer and very approachable and will I'm sure have some helpful suggestions. That aside, what a wonderful episode. Loved seeing inside the aeroplane workshop. The Mosquito build is mind boggling - not just in how it was built but also to think of them mass producing them like that during the war. Wonderful stuff.
I remember air start trucks in the 70s, probably still able to find those systems on the second hand market. They were absolutely terrifying if you happened to be anywhere near one when they started...they were loud, very loud.
My 1st semi tractor had an Ingersoll-Rand air starter for the Cummins diesel. Air reservoir tank was a 1 ft diameter x 6ft long vertical cylinder mounted behind the cab. In the winter 2 attempts at most. My neighbors loathed, hated, & despised me at 4:30 - 5 am
Dom,
Who supplied the ignition for your engine? Remy, Atwater Kent, Bosch??? It could share some components with other engines. It would be helpful to know this to aid your search. I know a guy in Wisconsin that has some crazy old stuff.
I have a photo somewhere where a Guy named Stewart Saunders in Australia put a liberty bomber engine in a car built on an early racing car style. It looked pretty cool_ with its big round brass fuel tank on the back. I think he used to belong to a vintage car group in Canberrra.
Dom, your channel has just shifted up a gear. Im looking forward to this project. I served my time in the RN in the engine room department, i love these sorts of channels, especially yours. Good luck with the build
Cracking video,lovely to see a piece on "The Peoples Mosquito" .Thankyou Dom.
I'm a boat builder. Everything the cabinet maker was doing, I used to do. I used to build prototype parts, sections, and complete boats. What these guys have in there heads, I totally get it all. And the paper trails, yep, exactly the same. I'm in the West Midlands and if anyone needs anything, I'm still working. Making furniture, teaching. But bucks, parts for anything one off, I'm available.
I'm not self promoting. I'm just saying I'm a resource that you or a viewer could use. These skills are dying out. Use it or loose it.
Jamie
You have a new sub! This looks interesting as! I'm in for the ride!
Brilliant,cannot wait, bring it on.
Wow what a beast! Well done Dom ,can't wait for the next episode.
Best regards uncle Franko ❤️
What a beast of an engine 😮 that's got to be a full strip and rebuild Dom. And when testing the engine make sure the frame is bolted down. When I was at college in Ashford we used to have Ford 2.0l OHC on frames and rattle around enough 😂. Also look at the spitfire engine Guy Martin did to see what happens 😮.
Christ, its as big as the Titanic. Good Luck Dom (and John)
Goodness me Dom! What a find. Hope the rest of the project goes as smoothly.
Ahh our Dom... this is going to be amazing! Can't wait to see how this project unfolds. I know your wee community of 3 years on here will come through for you and your bits and bobs, our Dom. Welcome back to the fold, our Cameraman Dan! xx
Hi Dominic,
Wow, this is houng to be an interesting project, thank you for your time to film and allow us to share it.
What about having a word with Mr.Duncan Pitaway who owns the Beast of Turin FIAT car, he might be able to point you in the direction of building such a machine. Utterly bonkers and eccentric but a very interesting person involved in the Edwardian racing scene.
Rgds, Peter.
I have spoken with duncan, he is brilliant, everybody I have met in the Edwardian world has been so helpful
Congratulations on finding an engine and that incredible company that keeps those olds aircraft in the air, it was a privilege to see it.
Great to see these skills are still about. My only concern who is going to take over from these old engineers😢
If you want an air start they have been used and are still used on trucks here in Australia. It could be modified to use on your engine. Also Russian V12 tank engines use a similar port injection air system.
Wow! What an amazing episode. Great to see Retrotec and get an insight into what they do. We have some amazing and talented engineers in this country. It's so important that we celebrate these people and work to get young people involved. Many thanks for sharing your world with us.
Couldn't agree more!
Never watched this channel before, but the Mosquito fuselage maker was super interesting.
You've got me totally hooked mate. I've subscribed and can't wait to share the adventure with you.
one of the most interesting episodes. please do another visit to Retrotec.
I agree Millyard & Dutton would be great team members to help you both very knowledgable and talented . Looking forward to more instalments .
The marine parts if you do not use them will make great swap items to get some of the bits you need. What an engine!
Hmm...I live in southern mid Michigan in the US. We see all kinds of stuff around here...I have seen a couple restored Liberty v12s at vintage air shows, etc. I'll keep my eyes open..
Thank you!
Fabricate the intake to fit American predator carbs, 950cfm have one for every 2 cylinders.
If you want your intake on the inside it's quite tricky, you will need a new camshaft making..... good excuse for a modern profile, more degrees etc?
Fit electronic ignition be fairly simple..
You could have tuned length exhaust headers!
Awesome for getting an engine, now the parts hunts begin, :) ,only big thought is whoever gets to drive it really will have to be on their toes because of the power it will be putting out, and taking the time to learn how to drive it etc... great job Dom, looking forward to all of the videos that we will be able to watch and see the restoration/ manufacture on the aero car!
This turned up in my recommended list, don't know why - probably the aviation theme as I'm a pilot and watch a bit of aviaiton stuff... anyway, watched it all - it would have been nice to start with a quick precis of what you are trying to achieve for those of us joining the conversation in the middle like me. :)
Thanks for clicking and watching! I appreciate the feedback I will try do a little recap next time
cartridge start would be amazing for you engine wonderful view into the restoration world.
I have to say this is ferking interesting, thank you for doing this video, I even started looking a info on De Havilland just out of interest, STOP IT I have enough thing to detract me from my car restoration no wonder I have been restoring one car for 36 years :(
Fantastic keep up the good work.power to you.cant wait to see this beast.
This. Is. AMAZING! What talents. Really hope they have lots of young apprentices otherwise these skills will vanish.
Some.....15 years ago? On a bike tour, we stumbled upon an open barn with a Dragon Rapide of all things. Rode down to visit and found someone to talk to who had been flying his home built from the grass strip. So many things to see, then the guy said, something about a Comet. Took me a few seconds to understand what he was talking about. The owner of the farm, was in the process of building a copy, not a replica, a copy from original drawings, of a DH Comet racer. He had mostly finished the fuselage, which wasn't built of plywood like a mosquito, but of individual strips of birch. Kind of like plywood that was made in place around the fuselage? Fascinating place and fascinating guy. Never actually met him, he died not long after. Several of his projects are now in New Zealand and are slowly being finished.
Wow, that place is incredible.... I could spend hours there!
I sincerely hope that the bottom end of the engine is good. The thought of 12 lots of big ends and regrinding the crankshaft makes me shiver, and I wouldn't even be paying for it. Good luck and best wishes.
Those exhausts chromed sticking out the side of a car fender. ❤
Now your talking!
So exciting, well done Dominic!
Fascinating project. If you need to reduce the output just don't floor the throttle just like you do in a road car, or if you don't trust yourself reduce pedal travel.
Well done getting your engine can't wait to you getting it running 😮😮
Dominic, there is a 1930's vintage film of a Gar Wood built Liberty engined boat on UA-cam, with the induction in the central V and the exhausts on the outsides of the V.
I love all your videos but this is the best yet!