Diesel indy race car.

Discussion in 'General foundry chat' started by Ironsides, Sep 4, 2022.

  1. Ironsides

    Ironsides Silver

    This is a interesting video about how a cummins truck diesel engine was used to power a racing car in 1952. They used the patterns for casting iron engine blocks to cast aluminium engine blocks to make the race car lighter.

     
  2. That would be the ideal application for a scaled down version of a Napier Deltic two stroke diesel: compact, powerful and as efficient as a four stroke engine.

     

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