From somewhere else..

Interesting-ish engine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvezda_M503


Attacked by lunatics:

http://picasaweb.google.de/tractorpulling.sascha/BuildingDragonFire#

 

Jeez .. thank god for fuckin' nutters, long may we still have them!

http://picasaweb.google.de/tractorpulling.sascha/BuildingDragonFire#5018171072439025522

I also like the trike further down ..

 

Jesus. Noisy or what?

 

Yeh, it's on youtube (in the tractor), but three of them on a boat?
Jeez.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Mike Buckley

<very small, slightly damp voice>

I've just cum.

 

There's a Swedish bloke on one of the Saab forums who has several of that
kind of thing in his shed.

Ah, yes...
"Zvezda M50, Transmash V12, Meteor mk4B/2, two Rolls Royce B80 plus a few
other smaller engines."
http://www.saabcentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1792618

http://www.geting.se/image.php/127541-Zvezda_moving_1.jpg/full

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Adrian

I was once working in Stockholm when talk turned to engines. The chap I
was with mentioned that he had a Merlin in his garage...

A couple of hours later I was wandering, slack-jawed, around his "other"
business in a spiral underground garage in Stockholm. I was looking at
the Merlin. A Ferrari 250 GTO. More Porsches than you could shake a
stick at. An Indian. An *immaculate* Chriscraft. Pontiacs. Dodges.
Just... *stuff*.

He ran a sports-car broker, and was a world-class pack-rat. Lovely guy.

 

At least there would've been something stopping your jaw dragging on the
ground...

I hate that. I don't mind so much if people with all those toys at their
disposal are utter cunts - because I can try and convince myself that I'd
rather be a decent bloke than have the toys. But when they're nice guys,
there's just no escape from the inevitable conclusions...

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Adrian

<VBG>

 

That is indeed an amazing engine, though at 3.7M long it may be a challenge
for a trike chassis to accomodate it.
What confuses me though is that it's a radial marine diesel, yet there are
distributor caps and HT leads in abundance in some of the shots. What did
they do, turn it into a petrl/methanol burning lump or something?
JB

 

Top Fuel class I'm guessing