or 6.6 liter, 6-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine that produced 380 horsepower.
Does anyone have some images of this engine, reportedly tilted on its side for lower CoG and frontal area?
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I swear I have seen them X. The car might be at the indy musem. I did find this while lookingxpensive wrote:This is the 1952 Cummins Indianapolis pole-sitter with a 139 mph lap, 138 average over four laps, powered by a 400 ci,
or 6.6 liter, 6-cylinder turbocharged diesel engine that produced 380 horsepower.
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Does anyone have some images of this engine, reportedly tilted on its side for lower CoG and frontal area?
This is a clipping from a 1952 issue of the old Speed Age magazine, and I’ll tell you what, we had some real problems with this one for a while. Out of a sense of journalistic duty, we always try and get some handle on the accuracy of something we post here. We learned that there is a ton of history in just this one photo. In 1950, top-level international racing was transitioning to new rules that became today’s Formula 1. The three surviving Maserati brothers – Ernesto, Ettore and Bindo – had recently ended their 10-year contractual association with the Orsi family, which had bought Maserati, the car, in 1937. Legal reasons also prevented the brothers from reorganizing under the Maserati name, so they formed O.S.C.A., for Officina Specializzata Costruzione Automobili, in Bologna. The brothers started work on a 60-degree V-12 for Amedee Gordini, and kept going when Gordini’s backer, Simca, pulled its support. The engine was a delight, twin camshafts on each hemispherical head despite only two valves per cylinder, triple Weber carburetion and about 290hp. Look at the wonderful interplay between the dual Marelli distributors at the front of the engine. Just three such engines were built, and the most famous creation they powered was two cars campaigned by Prince Bira of Thailand, one in a 4CLT as a unique Maserati/O.S.C.A. crossbreed, then in an O.S.C.A.-built Tipo C chassis in which Bira won the on Easter Monday at Goodwood. That car has since been recovered by the late Tom Wheatcroft, restored and placed in his Donington Park collection.
Smoke is standard operating procedure for a diesel of that period under load, street or racing.gruntguru wrote:EDIT. Just watched the video. Is that exhaust smoke as the car comes off the turns? Perhaps they should have laid the engine over the other way?
