Rare Sherman Firefly MULTIBANK Engine sound
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2020
- Special thanks to Willem Segers, Raymond Pillet and War Heritage Institute
Footage recorded at Liberation Column 2019
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#tanks #shermanfirefly #multibankengine - Авто та транспорт
Thanks for my new ringtone...
A man of culture.
@Peter Möller Guten Tag Herr Möller und sonnige Grüße aus Berlin. I just take a mp3-recording from a video with my cell phone and chose this audiofile as a ringtone, please help Yourself.
@Peter Möller Ihr Deutsch ist eher nicht schlimm, danke für Ihre Mühe!
Yes true
Top speed of the sherman firefly is 50kmh wich is very fast and the tank weighs 35 tons normal shermans weigh 31-33 tons Max so its 2 tons heavyer than all the other shermans the normal plane engine sherman weighs 31 tons and has a max top speed of 48kmh
A Sherman firefly with the right gun is rare to find.
A Sherman firefly with a Multibank engine is even rarer!
I got you the Sherman Firefly that has both!
Only the best tank porn for you!
I lost!
@@Krwekrw Missing you! Hoping to see you soon on Stream! (Getting my ass back into it!)
@@RitaGamer Possibly once i see you online :-)
Hey Rita I understand why the engine would be ultra rare but why would the mark VII 17pdr cannon be rare as well? That multi-bank sounds great, I've read both good and bad accounts of that engine.
@@bradleyhancock8719 Not many fireflies have the right cannon
Thank you for not putting music over this lovely engine's sounds.
No problem! Thanks for watching!
Zakiriel .
What are you talking about? This *is* music
This engine been modified by our mechanical genius, Moriarty. This tank is faster than any other tank in the European theater of operations, forward of backwards. See we like to think we can get out of trouble quicker than we got into it.
Thanks oddball....I enjoyed the Kelly's Heroes nod.
That one was a M4A3 with a Ford GAA 😉
“I only ride em, I dunno what makes em work”
88mm Shell from Tiger was quicker, as we saw xD
Piece if crap.
🤣
"if you want? we can start him up?!"
how cool can a guy be :D
*heartbeat raises*
Willem was a star!
A girl that likes tanks? Even rarer than the Firefly lmao
I genuinely had s sensible chuckle reading this. Thanks for watching! 😁👌
Girls und Panzer, there alot of girls(anime) , who like tanks
@@RipCreditsFMJ drawings
@@lol-un6nl don t hurt me pls.
@@lol-un6nl lol
It makes sense that the Chrysler multi bank engine is considered one of the smoothest and best preforming. You in essence have a series of inline 6 cylinder engines running in tandem. The 6 cylinder is an inherently balanced engine with a long piston stroke providing low engine vibration and a smooth torque curve.
@ Different models used different engines, some models used a radial aircraft engine, and later shemans used an 18 litre turbocharged V8.
@@Marc83Aus the V8 was a 18 litre Ford GAA. Not turbocharged, but fuel injected and DOHC
@@theone5716 Oh I'm sadly Misinformed. I Watched a video recently where a turbo charger had been fitted to a GAAand assumed they were all turbo charged.
@@Marc83Aus it's possible as many drag racers used those as an interesting (and more fuel burning) alternative to the 460 and 462 big block Fords. There's a 1969 Mustang dragster with a GAA tank engine and its on Google.
@@Marc83Aus there was the Sherman with the Detroit 6 71 diesel in it.
That has to be the quietest tank I’ve ever heard
5 car engines put together
This is how they SHOULD sound. an awful lot of the stuff you see and hear now days either has new diesel engines in them, or they have peried correct engine that are on their last leg. not running correctly, and or have little to no exhaust left.
It's amazing how many of these you see at shows that have period correct engines, but the exhaust manifold gaskets are blow out bad, and the actual pipes are rotted to hell.
This is exactly how this machine should sound. Whoever maintains this machine is either themselves a dayum good mechanic, or they have assembled a great workshop/team to keep this thing in "Fighting Shape"
My father was a Sherman tank commander in the New Zealand Division in Italy, 1944/45. This would bring back some memories for him.
Apparently the British loved the A57, and dispite the seeming complexity of it, was a reliable engine that gave them good service. Facts which have always surprised me. Thanks for sharing.
If one L6 is reliable, 5 of them have to be 5 times as reliable, right? %-D
AFAIK, The Americans fought shy of the M4A4 and the complexity of the A57 engine and I believe none were ever officially operated by the US army, all were sent to the UK as lend-lease for the British army fitted with the usual 75mm medium velocity gun, not all were converted into the Sherman VC "Firefly". Somewhere around 7,500 M4A4's were made and about 2,000 ~ 2,200 converted to VC Firefly configuration.
It was almost literally 5 car engines welded together, so it acts like 5 separate engines that happened to drive one crankshaft. If two of the five "engines" fail, the tank would still get the crew into cover handily.
The first few seconds of this video appear to show a Sherman driving from the square around the corner where my dad's tank was blown up. (My dad was the driver; Tank commander Capt. McWilliams) the radio operator was killed in the attack. I believe dad's tank was a standard twin engined one (third engine was the 500cc starter engine) I have his original manual sucked away.
That laugh at the end really shows your joy at dealing with such an amazing piece of history.
I didn't even realise I had until I started editing the video! Armoured vehicles are my joy in life!
I’ve worked on some of these engines before here in the states, (just the Chrysler 6, not the multi bank) its amazing how it kept such a recognizable sound in this application
The M4A4 Sherman and the Chrysler multibank engine deserve more credit than given. Those six cylinder engines were not built for military use but they were available. Chrysler engineers did a heroic job putting together the multibank engine to work in the Sherman. The British were even more heroic taking these unproven weapons and standing up to a better equipped enemy . Thanks to all those who fought for our freedom.
Well said sir!
The American military didn’t like these engines because they thought they were far too complex and maintenance heavy. So they lumbered the British with them... who it turned out loved them because despite the complexity they were very reliable engines.
The British along with Chrysler, altered the position of engine ancillaries like the distributors and fuel, oil and water pumps and the various filters to make them easy to access and service and that sorted the motors out.
This is a later version with one water pump. Earlier there were five and five drive belts! One for each bank.
I must say, it's odd hearing a 30 cylinder Chrysler engine running on pump-gas! Great video! Shame you weren't allowed inside!
Check this video: ua-cam.com/video/k4A1lqdt8p4/v-deo.html I uploaded the inside of the Firefly before I did the engine.
How many gallons to a mile
@@hisexcellencytrump855 Probably 2.
@@hisexcellencytrump855 3
When you need a loan to change spark plugs
I think the worst thing for spark plugs would be the B-36 bomber. 6 28 cylinder Wasp Major engines with 2 plugs per cylinder = 336 plugs on one plane.
@@jasonharmon7373 I honestly did not know that, and can only pity the poor soul who was tasked with changing all those plugs.
I had a 55 Fargo truck sounded a fifth as good. :)
"sir the engine is no good"
"THEN PUT 5 CAR ENGINE IN IT'
The thing I like to see the most when we enter a city with any WW2 vehicle is the faces of the citizens who doesn't know what's going on :)
And of course for all big engine vhehicles where the sounds echo's through the streets...that's priceless !!!
Wow. 30 cylinders. Didn't know about this engine. I guess the mechanics were in heaven. Thanks for sharing and recording its sound like you did.
its a multibank, so its not 1 engine with 30 cylinders, but 5 engines with 6 cylinders.
Wow. A very rare M4 with a working multi-bank engine. Cheers
Very rare indeed sir!
I will be keeping my eye on you....so find us some more tanks.
Very cool and very rare. Thank the guys for keeping this machine working. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful sherman and amazing sound of the Chrysler multibank engine.
In an old magazine Chrysler boasted I t could lose 2/3rds of its cylinders and still move the tank.
Someone has put a lot of love in that engine, sounds beautiful.
Very much indeed sir!
@no satisfaction Because it is the sound of liberation.
Awesome restoration ,it has a magnificent sound. Thanks Rita for not adding music!!
Who would have thought 5 straight sixes would sound that awsome?
One of these engines is on display at the auto museum in Rogers Minnesota
Sherman firefly: "Does anybody knows which direction berlin is?"
Umm...yeah, you take the third Reich
Thank you, Rita.
This here is our mechanical genius Moriarty.
I was waiting for him to also talk about how fast it is in Reverse!
Very nice video of our Firefly Rita.
Thank you love!
Gives you a sense of how vulnerable tanks are while fighting in city streets. They really depend on the infantry to keep their flanks clear. That multi-bank sounds so good at low idle.
This vid was the first thing to get me to genuinely smile in a few days, thanks Rita.
3:50 Cool to see the two of the Top-Dead-Center timing mark pointers (red triangle) on two of the crank ends. Thank you to the people who keep this history alive.
Beautiful sound! The multibank engine was an amazing accomplishment using production passenger car 6 cylinder engines.
Thank you for the great video of this very rare tank configuration.
The engine sounds wonderful.
It sounds like FREEDOM!
Thank you for the kind words and for watching! 😊
1) The engine sounds beautiful.
2) I think this may be the first time I have ever seen a Sherman with the headlights on.
Thanks for the great video! Sounds amazing!
That is beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
That is one of the neatest engine setups ever! Thanks for sharing.
Awesome Rita Thanks so much friend
Rita you were giddy over this !! I know car girls are rare , but tank girls even more so !!
Absolutely amazing find, keep the content coming!
Definitely! thank you so much for watching!
Funny how the variant with the most moving engine parts wound up becoming one of the most reliable. My fave will always be the Conti, but the Multibank is special and weird and has its own sort of magic. Love seeing them in action, and in the right tank no less!
Thank you YT for putting a video in my feed that I actually wanted to see.
Thank you Rita for the great content, you just got a new subscriber.
Aww this is the first thing I read this morning! Thank you so much dear! Anything I can do to make Military vehicle lovers happy!
Very cool. Thank you Rita!
Wow that is a gorgeous sound, thanks so much for posting!
And thank you for watching sir!😊
the A57 was so absurdly cool, I love that there are some still running.
AHH I love the smell of tank exhaust in the morning !!!
...just don't be using a camp shower...
Soo this is what *"Get some 5 car engines and put them together"* sounds like
Wow! a tank with a fast acceleration, nice. makes me want to install a NOS system on it and see if it can drift also. thanks for sharing.
Kathleen Shaw
Fantastic story! Thank you for sharing it 😎
Thanks for sharing this unique piece Rita
And thank you for watching!
That certainly stirs the blood.
That that engine actually worked is amazing. I mean German equipment gets a lot of stick for beeing to complicated, but this is very complicated and worked anyway :) Also very nice of them to start it and very charming accents all around.
'Shall we start this engine?'
''Yeah, yeah''
She might be a keeper ...
Beautiful, a firefly rolling trough the streets perfect!
hi rita just seen this great vid you done fantastic and wow what a growl from the engine great work keep it up all the best maxgothic
wasn't this engine a bunch of Chrysler 6 bangers stuck together? sounds good!
Yes, they all shared a common central casting as each of their own lower crankcase.
Always great to see rare surviving tank that can still operate.
Rommel said: "The german panzer tank can destroy ten American Sherman's before being destroyed itself.... but the Americans have eleven."
And are cheaper to maintain, recover and repair
@@FMHikari Plus the panzers are prone to malfunction and fuel issues. Source, Kelly's heros.
The USA could out-produce the Germans eleven to one.
And make better tanks, more reliable tanks, and better performing tanks and more survivable tanks.
But like T-34 also :)
sounds wonderful
7,499 Sherman's were fitted with this engine along with 109 Lee's, the fact that something like that is rare says a lot about how much WW2 equipment got scrapped after the war, some of the engines probably wound up powering saw mills and the like.
Excellent video Rita :)
Thank you so much Scott! :D
Extremely cool! 😮😄👍👍 I shared this!
This was interteresting machine, good video!
5 inline Chrysler 6 cylinder engines put into one big ole block case.
The cam sounds a lot more aggresive than i thought it would've been
I don't think it was aggressively cammed, I think it was simply cold. My old Trans Am sounded like a dragster when started cold.
@@JetsonRING I think it sounds that way because its a multi bank engine with separate ignition for each bank but a common central crank
@@UA-camforcedmetochangemyname When he started the engine, I too thought it sounded very aggressively cammed but it smoothed out as it warmed up.
It sounds aggressive as each engine operates individually, but each cylinder of a bank effectively fires 24 degrees before the same cylinder of the next bank does, through all 5 engine banks; all running identical, normal firing patterns, just multiplied in staggered Parallel, = 30 cylinders of 7.5:1 compressive fun !
If you look carefully you can see the hours of work that went into getting it running that smoothly. Very impressive on modern petrol.
Many/Most Fireflies have the right cannon. But the Firefly on itself is rare. They did have other engines too, like the Wright Radial and GMC TwinDiesel.
But the A57 multibank engine is very rare. Those where replaced mostly by radials when spare supply dried up.
So, the combination: Firefly, 17Pdr AND A57 MultiBank is SUPER RARE.
You can easily see if a Sherman was originaly build to have the A57 because the hull is longer (more space between the wheelstations). It is the Sherman M4A4 variant.
Oh wow. Amazing. Headphones! Thanks Rita.
Thank you! 😍
Beautiful tank!
(Very interesting) thank you Rita. Now this is history at its finest.
Great shot of that engine. You can see the different distributors for each engine with all the spark plug wires coming off them.
Cool.
Yeah - with as many Sherman's as they made they had a number of different engine types they used. A lot of the Marine Sherman's were diesels.
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How cool . torque must be outstanding !
THAT SOUNDS BLOODY MARVELLOUS better than the old Detroit motor.
Very nice.
awesome!
Oh Hell Yeah! That is Freaking Awesome!
Fantastic.
It is nice to see, the only working one from 2100 produced.
What a sweet sounding engine.
That vehicle in that location kind of sends a shiver up the spine.
Amazing thank you👍👍
Thank you for watching! 🥰
can we appreciate how good a sherman looks with a 17pdr
Someone is bound to ask "Why use a bunch of 6-cyl engines? Why not V-8s?" Harry Ricardo figured it all out during WW1 and explained why the in-line 6 ["L6," the "i" is understood/silent... ;-) ] in his 1921 book _The High Speed Internal Combustion Engine_ [remember, at the time, 2k rpm was considered "hi-speed."] It all comes down to balance. This is also why the great water-cooled aero engines of the time were V-12s [two L6's in a V.] Anyway, aside from Ford (flat head) V-8s, all the car manufacturers were pretty much focused on building L6s. So that's why 5 of them in a multibank could fit in the same space as the (normal Sherman powerpack] of the air-cooled radial & use the existing production capacity for passenger car engines that was going unused since nobody was allowed to build/buy passenger vehicles for the war effort ["rationing;" also why all the new cars for the 1st couple years after the end of WW2 looked like pre-war models.] Also, since each L6 had perfect primary balance, it didn't matter that there was an odd number of them...
When Chrysler had a museum in a suburb of Detroit, I got to see one of these engines on general display in the entrance. It is made out of five Plymouth automobile engines of the era. The Sherman tank had three different engines it came equipped with, this one, a big V12 Ford that had been intended to replace the Allison aircraft engine and a radial airplane engine made by Lycomming, I think. All wartime adaptations to get enough power into this machine.
Very good my friend! Congratulations from Brazil! 👏🇧🇷
De nada! Obrigado! :D
Very Good!
The idle sounds fantastic
Nice one 👍
The Belgian-(IIRC?)-resin model manufacturer known as RESICAST makes an AMAZING 1/35th scale reproduction of this multi-bank motor....
Sherman driver I know hated working on them. Gotta be a genius to tune it he said.
Quite an interesting piece of machinery!
Awesome!
You have a new sub this is amazing
Thank you so much ! Welcome! 🥰
@@RitaGamer looking forward to more of your great content
True sound of freedom.... along with the merlin
Sounds like a drag car love it
As of. Now Jan 2020 there are still. Several Sherman’s in active service in Mexico as armored recovery vehicles and a few Central American countries .keep a variety of Sherman’s as infantry support. Tanks with I believe upgraded Diesel engines and 90mm. And or 105mm guns so a long service life