A day at Harry's: Merlin-engined Bentley and more . . .
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You just have to look at these pics Dennis (Cavallino) made!
Awesome!!!
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Awesome!!!
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Dink's blog part 3
I love the detailing on this kit, like these tiny rearlights. The finish is rough all in the spirit of the cars appearance and the scale and proportions are spot on.
While GTRene checks out Harry's RR-knowledge I just drool over this ultimate HotRod. The period wired exhausts, the fighterplane stylee cockpit, the comfy seat . . . it's all there and it's a one off built by a man passionate about making it. It took Harry about 7 years to create this beast. Forget John Dodds and make a big bow to this character.
The 27 litre Centurion tank engine has downsized torque to keep up with a reasonable clutch. In a 3 to 1 ratio the torque is only about 650 Nm now. 2000 Nm is just too much! The power output still looks a bit huge for the relatively small wheels. I'd fancy a ride thank you very much, just to find out about that.
Harry can tell a story, down to earth and without any exageration. I sheer contrast to the machinerie he puts his soul in.
He told me about blowing up one of his Merlins, and showed me the banks. The big ends snap and the heads get stuck. So the RR won't blast and the fighterpilot can glide all the way and land safely. Pretty smart engineering.
Rene is still listening: "I made the injection stuff to fit the engine with ordered bits from the US. I called the factory because they poured petrol instead of atomizing gas. WTF you expect, it's a 27 litre thingy!"
"Ready to shake some earth?"
It takes a few revs to get her out of beautysleep.
No flames captured by me - thank gawd Dennis did that just perfect! - but smoke . . .
. . . sometimes unburned petrol just flowed straight through and exploded somewhere in the exhaust. So an occasional bang 'n flame or an occasional pop 'n effing smokecurtain.
I had the wrong program here hence the 'off' colouring.
Nuff . . . Harry likes to sail too. He has a small wooden pretty and a way bigger typical Zuiderzee 'botter'. I didn't see the diesel in place so it must be a restauration project as well. But what do you Philistines care
One of the handfull DB2's in progress. In front of a late 70's V8 ready for Harry's son.
This will be a magnificent 475 hp Oscar India within months. He showed me the 48DCOE double Webers. It's an auto though . . . if I were him I'd search for a nice 6-speed to match. Excellent choice!
Next: more old stuff and a [url]Spitfire-engine|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Ro[/url} ready to throw some flames.
I love the detailing on this kit, like these tiny rearlights. The finish is rough all in the spirit of the cars appearance and the scale and proportions are spot on.
While GTRene checks out Harry's RR-knowledge I just drool over this ultimate HotRod. The period wired exhausts, the fighterplane stylee cockpit, the comfy seat . . . it's all there and it's a one off built by a man passionate about making it. It took Harry about 7 years to create this beast. Forget John Dodds and make a big bow to this character.
The 27 litre Centurion tank engine has downsized torque to keep up with a reasonable clutch. In a 3 to 1 ratio the torque is only about 650 Nm now. 2000 Nm is just too much! The power output still looks a bit huge for the relatively small wheels. I'd fancy a ride thank you very much, just to find out about that.
Harry can tell a story, down to earth and without any exageration. I sheer contrast to the machinerie he puts his soul in.
He told me about blowing up one of his Merlins, and showed me the banks. The big ends snap and the heads get stuck. So the RR won't blast and the fighterpilot can glide all the way and land safely. Pretty smart engineering.
Rene is still listening: "I made the injection stuff to fit the engine with ordered bits from the US. I called the factory because they poured petrol instead of atomizing gas. WTF you expect, it's a 27 litre thingy!"
"Ready to shake some earth?"
It takes a few revs to get her out of beautysleep.
No flames captured by me - thank gawd Dennis did that just perfect! - but smoke . . .
. . . sometimes unburned petrol just flowed straight through and exploded somewhere in the exhaust. So an occasional bang 'n flame or an occasional pop 'n effing smokecurtain.
I had the wrong program here hence the 'off' colouring.
Nuff . . . Harry likes to sail too. He has a small wooden pretty and a way bigger typical Zuiderzee 'botter'. I didn't see the diesel in place so it must be a restauration project as well. But what do you Philistines care
One of the handfull DB2's in progress. In front of a late 70's V8 ready for Harry's son.
This will be a magnificent 475 hp Oscar India within months. He showed me the 48DCOE double Webers. It's an auto though . . . if I were him I'd search for a nice 6-speed to match. Excellent choice!
Next: more old stuff and a [url]Spitfire-engine|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Ro[/url} ready to throw some flames.
Couple of questions:
1 - those are odd looking exhausts coming out of the Meteor-engined beast - they appear to be squeezed into the collectors, any reason for this? Or does gasflow not matter when you've got 27 litres?
2 - what's with the teasers about the 'red car' - go on, you've made a mystery
1 - those are odd looking exhausts coming out of the Meteor-engined beast - they appear to be squeezed into the collectors, any reason for this? Or does gasflow not matter when you've got 27 litres?
2 - what's with the teasers about the 'red car' - go on, you've made a mystery
cyberface said:
Couple of questions:
1 - those are odd looking exhausts coming out of the Meteor-engined beast - they appear to be squeezed into the collectors, any reason for this? Or does gas-flow not matter when you've got 27 litres?
2 - what's with the teasers about the 'red car' - go on, you've made a mystery
1 - those are odd looking exhausts coming out of the Meteor-engined beast - they appear to be squeezed into the collectors, any reason for this? Or does gas-flow not matter when you've got 27 litres?
2 - what's with the teasers about the 'red car' - go on, you've made a mystery
The exhaust is this way i think to make a little movement possible since the rest of the exhaust is pretty fixed...sometimes in the beginning you could see some smoke escaping there
but when it runs a bit better it flows in the exhaust nicely... Also they made specially a injection system for this car, but the program was not ready yet, it needs a bit more adjustment but that's a specialist job...
The "red' car we can't talk about over the forum...we've got a code not too and we respect that, maybe Dink can talk about that offline by mail sorry for that.
great pics Dink, as always
GTRene
Edited by GTRene on Tuesday 20th March 22:17
GTRene said:
cyberface said:
1 - those are odd looking exhausts coming out of the Meteor-engined beast - they appear to be squeezed into the collectors, any reason for this? Or does gas-flow not matter when you've got 27 litres?
The exhaust is this way i think to make a little movement possible since the rest of the exhaust is pretty fixed...sometimes in the beginning you could see some smoke escaping there
but when it runs a bit better it flows in the exhaust nicely...That was what I was wondering and is more or less the answer I came up with, but it still puzzles me why the stubs haven't been neatly reduced in diameter as opposed to apparently just squidged with a hammer or something - doesn't seem in keeping with the rest of the beast.
your right about that(exhaust), but the project is long from finished, I asked him about all that and the car will be stripped completely down again once the set up is good, then the fine tuning begins also he wants to make it much lighter then it is now, for instance he used some very thick steel plate about 12mm to fix the gearbox to the engine and more stuff like that, it weights I believe 2000kg so he wants to make it lighter as the injection system has to work better...
GTRene
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