"GhostZ" (GhostZ)
09/23/2013 at 15:11 • Filed to: None
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"GhostZ" (GhostZ)
09/23/2013 at 15:11 • Filed to: None | 2
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I am completely speechless.
hollanddjw 1
> GhostZ
09/23/2013 at 15:19 |
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"Huh, Roadkill came out early."
"Waaaait a minute..."
PowderHound
> GhostZ
09/23/2013 at 15:21 |
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Can someone explain to me preferably in a diagram how the power in a side by side engine gets to the wheels?
Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> PowderHound
09/23/2013 at 15:29 |
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I'd like someone to elaborate on this too, he said something about two large heavy duty bearings and something about belts and from there it goes into a regular bell housing, how do you guys figure this works?
pdthedeuce
> GhostZ
09/23/2013 at 15:32 |
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imagine the flywheel on each engine as a gear . then, there is a gear meshing with them both, which is on a jackshaft that drives the transmission .
Brian, The Life of
> PowderHound
09/23/2013 at 15:34 |
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He uses cogs off the two engines to a jack shaft that mates to the bell housing of the single tranny. As he says in the vid, "It's like a triangle." He's not the first one to do this by a long shot.
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GhostZ
> pdthedeuce
09/23/2013 at 15:38 |
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I know how it probably works, but the fact that someone built it, and it looks so good, is what impresses me.
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PowderHound
> Brian, The Life of
09/23/2013 at 15:40 |
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That makes sense. I knew that it has been done before but I have never looked at how things like that actually worked
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pdthedeuce
> GhostZ
09/23/2013 at 15:40 |
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yeah it's awesome. I wanted to reply to the guys wondering how it worked, but couldn't , so I put it here .
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Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> Brian, The Life of
09/23/2013 at 15:55 |
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I'm beginning to grasp this, it's crazy! Especially considering it supports this much horsepower.
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Brian, The Life of
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
09/23/2013 at 15:57 |
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Crazy to the point of certifiable! My jaw dropped when he said he tossed all the electronic ignition bits and went with mechanical points O_o
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Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> Brian, The Life of
09/23/2013 at 16:01 |
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Haha yep, don't imagine that happens often of a 4.6 modular.
I would love to see pictures of the backs of these engines and how it all fits together.
More than anything, I would be honored to be anywhere near this thing when it gets started and drives off.
Pixel
> GhostZ
09/23/2013 at 16:09 |
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I can't find the thread, but there was a guy building a twin-engine drag car with two small blocks. If I recalled he mounted them cocked to each side so the teeth on the ring gears meshed. One engine ran normally and one ran reverse rotation so the gears would mesh properly.