ferret1958uk Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I want a running Merlin. My two Mosquito Merlins will never run again despite a rebuild at Reccardo Engineering for one of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowtracdave Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Actually - I am kind of thinking that perhaps 27 litres may be slightly excessive, but I could be wrong?! In the words of our colonial cousins .........There ain't no substitoot for coobic inches...... :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Actually - I am kind of thinking that perhaps 27 litres may be slightly excessive, but I could be wrong?! I am not in the least surprised. Early Mark 1 Tigers and Panthers ran 21 litre Maybachs, replaced by 24 litre Maybachs like those in Tiger IIs. The engine in the Bovington Tiger was the original 21l, but first time they put it under load a con rod went through the block and trashed it. They were unable to source the correct 21l Maybach anywhere in the world to replace it, so they had to settle for a 24l out of a Tiger II, so it is authentic (in that Tiger 1Es later had the 24l engine) but not genuine (in that this particular example never did). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowtracdave Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Just seen an ad for the air display at Rougham this weekend which says that the merlins will be the stars of the show . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Johns Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Of course if you happen to have a spare merlin/meteor you could always throw it into an old Rover, stick on some dubious SU carbs!, move driving position as far away as poss. ie, in back seat and light blue touch paper !!! :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowtracdave Posted August 13, 2007 Share Posted August 13, 2007 Oh dear......... John Dodds did it with so much more style back in the 70's. Anyone remember the fibreglass bodied RR he built ? That was rather nice..until,as I remember,it caught fire. :-( . Seem to remember RR got rather touchy especially as he used one of their rads on the front of the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Johns Posted August 14, 2007 Share Posted August 14, 2007 Yes I saw the car at several shows before its demise, John Dodds was responsible for the body and fake Rolls grille, but an engineer Paul Jameson actually built the car, it was of course a Meteor tank engine but it was always promoted as having a Spitfire engine....er.. seemed to be missing the blower.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Cubed Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Try this link, all about the guy who has put the Meteor in his Rover SD1. Ive been to see him and chatted for about 3 or 4 hours, time flys when you are having fun..... http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?p=1&f=23&t=245424&h=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Johns Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 mmmm.. most impressive but I think not the same car as in my pic, that engineering was more of a sat afternoon job with gas axe and angle grinder !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 I was working at Aviation Jersey when John Dodds tried to get some spares for the Meteor engine in his 'Rolls Royce'. No wonder Rolls were not happy, the engine was a Meteor Rover build. All sorts of claims were made for it. None were satisfactorily proven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Cubed Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 mmmm.. most impressive but I think not the same car as in my pic, that engineering was more of a sat afternoon job with gas axe and angle grinder !! Yes I am sure it is the same car, only a few years ago, He thew the engine in the car with some old SU's as he did not get the propper carbs when he got the engine, this was to fit engine and work out bits and bobs and to trial the drive train ect and sort out the chassis ect. Now he is going through the car to sort it properly and cosmeticaly to finish it off. If you want a REAL Merlin powered car try this.................. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5yB3U9gGW0 Happy watching.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford 369 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 I think the John Dodds car known as the beast is alive and well and living in Spain Nigel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Cubed Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Yep thats what I herd, has also been to the Guildford cruise some years ago, not herd of it for some time now .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Hayward Posted August 27, 2007 Share Posted August 27, 2007 This site has the real sound of a Merlin - where it should be in a Spitfire! http://www.supermarine.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MARTIN CROSS Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 I saw a Merlin powered 6 wheeler in Brighton about 25 years ago. It was in the Speed Trials and was gold coloured with 2 bubble cockpits and twin bus axles at the back.Awesome! Currently there is a beautiful handbuilt silver roadster doing the local shows. It has a non blown Hurricane engine. I saw the Rover at Bromley a while back.That sounded good too. I always wondered if one would fit in a Stolly!? Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted August 29, 2007 Share Posted August 29, 2007 If you've got a Stolly you have one or it's cousin. They were also fitted to Saracen and Saladin. Ghastly bloody thing to work on. The exhaust valves are sodium packed, you try being the apprentice steam cleaning the things when they come back from what was then Rhodesia. One had a crack right across the head diagonally, unfortunately I was the poor apprentice steam cleaning the thing when it was discovered a valve had cracked. Cured the constipation. Also had one blow up the test bed, did go well. The basic history is Rolls were building tank engines and Rover developing Merlin as an aero engine. Under the war time Ministry of Works it was agreed that Rover would take the tank engine line, being vehicle manufacturers and Rolls the merlin as they were aero engineers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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