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On the opposite end of the spectrum there is this beast. 28.5L, 4 cylinders.
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BRM at one point had a 1.5L supercharged V16.
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has the video been slowed down? all that noise and barely went anywhere :/
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It’s a 14,000 rpm 1.5L. How much torque do you think it makes?
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it sounded like it was hitting high rpm
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Holy shit that’s 7.125 liters per cylinder. That’s almost four whole 2 liter bottles of soda per cylinder.
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I bet it’s tricky to get off the line. There’s probably a fine line between stalling it and burning out the clutch. It’s also a historically significant car. They’re not going to go all out and risk breaking it.. This looked more like a gentle cruise around the circuit.
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Its mindblowing. I can’t even fathom how much fuel it burned.
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Good god, were they trying to rev it to 50,000 rpm?
Edit: I just looked it up and while its not as high revving as I imagined, 600hp out of 1.5L is really significant for a 60 year old engine. I don’t imagine it had any concept of torque though.
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You usually hear the explosions resonating through the exhaust pipe. No. Those were just straight up explosions.
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If you’ve ever wanted to feel like you’re driving an entire war, this is the car for you.
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Counterpoint: Lampredi was so enthralled with the idea of torque that he designed (and built) an in-line
twin.
That did not work, but the four-cylinder “500" certainly did.
Post scriptum: apart from Honda’s efforts, has anyone else tried an east-west engine in a GP car? Am I wrong or they were the only ones?