yes its a Hemi

[Plymouthy Adams]

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[Tony Cipponeri]

Hey Tim, Will it fit in mt 1950 busy coupe???? Tony C

[greg g]

Well it may be a hemi but it certainly wasn't for a P47. The Jug was designed around the 2000 HP P&W double wasp radial.

[martybose]

sure will..but don't expect to find room to sit and drive once the tranny is attached...lol

Not to mention that since it is an inverted V-16, both of the heads and the intake plenum are significantly below the crankshaft centerline! Maybe if you raised the engine so that the driveshaft was about shoulder height you could find room for the driver!

Marty

[martybose]

Well it may be a hemi but it certainly wasn't for a P47. The Jug was designed around the 2000 HP P&W double wasp radial.

True enough, but there are photos of the XP-47 that had the Chrysler inverted V-16 installed as a test bed!

Marty

[T.Tom Meshingear]

Here are some pix of the flying testbed.

All of the Daimler-Benz 600 series aircraft engines were inverted V12s.

Here is a 44.5 liter DB603 in a Type 80 LSR car. They were planning for 450 mph in 1938-39.

T. Tom

[greg g]

Yea a bit more research showed that Republic did indeed have an inline prototype of the P 47, as the Photos show. However after the Allison was tested and used in the P 40 and P 38, the Army Air Corps issued a directive to investigate the use of other powerplants. Good thing as the Jug was very instrumental in the defeat of the Axis Powers of WWII on Europe. Inflicting heavy damage on planes, and ground targets while allowing pilots to retrun to base after taking massive amounts of return fire. Cylinders blown off, control srufaces in tatters, and parts of wings missing, P47's were seldom lost to battle damage. I have a freind who's father flew one in ground attack and infantry support missions, he garnered a bronze star, and purple heart while flying his Thunderbolt.

[RobertKB]

Holy Crap, that is one helluva engine. I would also love to hear it run. We have a WWII Lancaster bomber near where I live and they have now got two of the engines running. I haven't heard them run yet but people who have say it will make your willie tingle. I've attached a pic of the plane.

[Lou Earle]

Looks to me like just move the radiator forward, fabricate a couple of rear mounts and that baby will be ready to drop in.

[PatS....]

That big Hemi might fit in one of these if it won't go into an old Mopar...

[Plymouthy Adams]

That truck would be a lot sleeker looking IMHO if the grille was a bit more forward and sloping down to the front axle..as it is..looks like Galion roadgrader.

[Ed Griffin]

Robert, anyone, do you have any present day pictures of a P-38? Love the pic of the Lancaster. Off and on I'm building 1/48 scale WWII planes (another hobby) and I'm always looking for present day color pic's. Did one of the P-38 with the add-on radar section on the cockpit but those seem to be hard to locate a pic of. I have 2 more of those to build along with 2 of the 3 B-17F's. Also in waiting are some Stuka's, Meshsershmit's (sp?), Jukar's, a P-40 Flying tiger and some other 1/48th scale fighters and bombers. Keeps the hands nimble and steady for those detail paint jobs needed for detail work on the vehicles , etc. .

[greg g]

Ed don't forget the Migs, Sturmovik and other russian planes. And the Italians had some interesting stuff also.

Check this site for a couple diffeent shots of the P 38

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Fighters/Yak3TakingOff.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Aircraft/Fighters/&h=768&w=1024&sz=224&hl=en&start=44&tbnid=bVRJ8LzCB42c6M:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dyak%2Baircraft%26start%3D36%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

[Tim Frank]

Tim, Some years ago i was in England at the time of Battle of Britain Sunday.

My cousin took me to a WWII aerodrome that had been preserved /maintained to operational standards.

They did a mock scramble of 5 Spits. Fom siren to lift-off was less than 90 seconds...and the noise was the most surprising part of the show.

Those Merlins were an amazing piece of engineering.

If they hadn't put the Merlin in the Mustang, we might have missed out on one of the top 5 A/c of WWII.

[Ed Griffin]

Thanks for the link Greg, fantastic pic's! At 1/48th scale you cant have too many planes. It will be awhile before I finish all of these.

Tim A. I havent been to any places that has any of the old warbirds but I know I'd enjoy it. Other than the airshow they have every other yr or so thats abt as close I get to seeing anything. I did make a DVD of the show since I can see it from my home and the do flyby's right over the house. Of course I grew up around the Memphis Belle when you could go inside it years back but they restored it and moved it downtown for awhile and now it's been moved out of state in a museum. Guess thats why the B-17's always been my favorite. I was drooling when James Douglas mentioned getting to fly in one not many boards back.

[Ed Griffin]

Another great link, thanks Tim!

[Allan Faust]

I love the planes of WWII..... The only computer game I played regularly was Air Warrior, (which had the most realistic versions of the planes of WWII) and my favorites to fly were the Jug, P-38J and ME-109G in the European theater, and the Hellcat and the Zero in the Pacific theater.... there were some actual pilots and relatives of others flying online at the time... supposedly handled quite like the originals (without the reality of the blackouts and redouts....)

Allan

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