Continental W670-A9 Seven Cylinder Tank Engine

[Starfleet0]

how many litres?

[InfiniteMushroom]

Radials sound awesome but, have serious design deficiencies. They have terrible air/fuel distribution in the intake manifold. Modern sequential fuel injection would solve that problem.

Another big problem is that radials cannot reuse oil because there is no sump for oil to collect in and be pumped back through.

[singleproppilot]

Hehe... Sounds funny without a propeller on it.

[nitefly8]

man, nothing's cooler than the sound of a radial. that's the same engine I learned on in a&p school. took forever to get started, and it needed a 5 gallon jug with an endless supply of oil (which i see you also have) and a new starter about every other day, but it was a blast to work on and run. you could tell when it was getting ready to light off when it spit about 2 quarts of oil out the left exhaust and a big fireball out the right

[NastyNixels]

This engine starts a little better now. We're doing a restoration - got the fan and shroud. Hopefully we won't go through starters like you did.

lol

Thanks for commenting.

[MarsTSM]

Wow!..Is that the same engine that was used in the early Sherman tanks?

Can you tell me where you found this gem? :)

Thankyou

[NastyNixels]

There are places to buy these engines. I think there's a place in OK called Radials or something like that. A collector donated this engine to the Penngrove Power & Implement Museum a couple of years ago.

Thanks for your interest.