nah this engine has only been used by rover, lotus, MG and caterham so no jaguars here.
I understand where you’re coming from, its a massive drop off in power. We are just talking about an engine where its bottleneck is planet earths atmosphere. 27 litres of royal muscle needs a supercharger to see its potential met
I’m talking about a Hellcat Redeye, 6.2L V8 with 2.7L supercharger, pushes 797hp stock which is pretty close to 800 you mentioned
But yeah, you do have a point about the bottleneck, at that size it 100% happens, look at Top Fuel dragsters, even though the fuel itself has oxygen in it, they still need stupidly powerful superchargers to hit their potential
We dont get hellcats over here so I never think of them.
I forgot to point out that meteor isn’t using octane 150 like the merlin, its fuel quality is trash in comparison reducing output by a lot
So the Merlin engine @Heavytanker1945 was talking about on this tank’s prototype, running on high grade fuel could have hit the numbers he’s saying?
still doubt it because high octane just makes the fuel stand up to higher compression better. still cant burn efficiently without enough air. you have to reduce the fuel rate on the carbs drastically without the superchargers
Is there even a possibility they could’ve used nitrous? Did they even have it back then?
Nitrous Oxide has been known about for centuries but was used as a sleeping gas for surgeries, I believe the germans did use it for high altitude stuff but nitrous kills any kind of engine longevity so is unviable in a competent military (in other words not a ww2 german military)
So then the 600hp is correct number?
600hp was standard operating horsepower on earlier meteors pushing up to 650hp later on in centurion. so yes
All this talk about engines has me wondering how far an Abrams gas turbine can be pushed before becoming a bomb or just breaking
as its a turbine i dont imagine too much can be done to it. imagine how nuts a CV12 could go
Imagine a twincharged CR2 with its armor arrays stripped.
TBF my car runs on 93 Octane, and ONLY 93 Octane or else it absolutely grenades the Piston rings and Cylinder walls.
when an engine is made with only one fuel spec that kind of thing happens, bad design choice unless you can guarantee fuel quality (which is next to impossible for a tank in combat scenarios).
And would you Believe that is for a LINCOLN?
This is my baby, her name is Mipha, and she makes nearly 300hp. and goes like a bat out of hell.
nice car, i adore my little MG (don’t have a photo on my PC so random photo on internet will do
back to the discussion I hope Ed was able to clarify confusions on the engine
Is that one of the rear/mid engine ones?
IK a couple of those little things were over there.
Shame we never got cool stuff like that over here.
Though i do love my Lincoln badged Jaguar with a Passion.
yea mid engined, werent sold in the US because BMW owned MG at the time and would rather MG dead than possibly take sales from their own roadster
thats why abrams has a gas turbine, you can run those things on tequila or even perfume
there was a turbine powered car that was literally run on channel no5 and tequila, I think it was made by crysler in the 50s
