The crappest engine design ever? (flathead engines?)

[kiwicar]

good engine it may have been, I still say the person who thought it up was off their head at the time

[Paul B]

This could catch on, who can come up with the crappiest engine design ever, or part of an engine design.

To get the ball rolling, how about "hot bulb" ignition. Or even worse I vaguely remember reading about engines that had a bit of file sticking out of the piston that ran across a lump of flint in the combuston chamber!

I mean where the hell to you connect the timing strobe?

Pete

How about "who can take the crappiest engine design and spend a gazillion dollars making it run great?"
(tongue very much in cheek) Some amazing engineering going on here, but the web site is pretty cheap.

http://www.uncommonengineering.com/index.html

[The Original Tom]

As impressive as those MASSIVE blowers lok, half the air flow they provide probably goes into making the engine breathe as well as an over-head valve engine!
Those blowers bolted onto the front of the crank are mental

Although for $10,500 I'd rather have one of these:
http://www.proformanceunlimited.com/spe ... 0drop.html
And keep the change for fuel!!!

[kiwicar]

OK I've seen it all, converting a side valve to semi inlet over exhaust with an overhead cam, one crap combustion chamber into an even worse one (even worse than the old bedford 6 IOE ), no proper position for the plug, combustion chamber is terrible, piston valve clearance problems (very limmited inlet timing) and it is now taller than a pushrod OHV layout and it now has two exhaust systems as he has converted the original inlet tract to an exhaust so exhaust heat everywhere. Bonkers . Bet the designer was chuffed to bits with his work
Mike
PS Tom you can get 450 bhp with lightly ported vortec heads and a cast crank, that is cheep power!
PPS I like your avitar made me laugh