Rolls-Royce Griffon V12 exhaust flames

Engine is from a english bomb plane in world war II, Rolls Royce Griffon, V12, 37 liter/ 2257 cui.
Lidköping 2007

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• tractor
• pulling
• traktor
• fire
• rolls-royce
• griffon
• v12
• lidköping
• city
• pull
• 2007

[clusterc]

SILVER SPIRIT .. LOVE IT!

[Jobergg]

Den ska få nytt tändsystem nu i vår så vi får se om den kommer att gå ännu bättre sen!

[FiveCentsPlease]

They are being used in aviation restorations now and can be kept for future restorations. Tractor pulling overheats and over stresses the engines until they blow to bits. And any that survive that torture are ruined for any aviation use afterwards. That's NOT preservation for the benefit of the public or future generations. It's wasteful destruction.

[geob01]

If it is running rich, burning unused fuel in the zoomies, then it is running cooler than it will if you lean it out to the 'sweet spot'. In competition we add fuel to cool an engine, sometimes that is a better plan than going all-out for hp.

[Joeaviation1712]

You should hear this engine passing over you in a spitifre mark 19, sounds so powerful! No wonder the Germans were frightened when they heard it

[tim60s321]

The 2000 hp Griffons replaced the 1000+ Merlins in Spitfire fighters (not "bomber") from the Mk 9 onward. Using them for sled pulls etc seems a terrible waste of an engine that could be used for aircraft restoration projects.....

[spentacle]

Griffins were in active service in Shackleton aircraft until 1990

[Hiei2k7]

That would be an engine that is 60-70 years old today.

Why can't we super-engineer shit like that today?  gotta be cheap Chinese crap.

[Xperience76aX]

This engine was probably heading for the scrap pile anyway...these guys reincarnated it for a while... GO GRIFFIN

[AllianceB95]

Fantastic! The Good Old Griffon V12 !

[nandoanalog]

@mrspivvy Anything that takes technology to it's present limits, induces evolution. this sport does it just fine.

[mrspivvy]

I'm not knocking anyone's hobby or anything, but this just seems pointless to me, spending a fortune on a glorified tractor to drag a dead weight a couple of yards across a field. I suppose you had to be there.

[wraith01mg]

shame the great spitfire motor is reduced to pulling a sled in muddy field.

[liftwaffe]

I beg to differ,I am 26 and I love the sight and sound of these old beasts.And so would my 11year old nephew.

But then again you may be the kind of person who instead of learning from history prefer to touch the hot plate over and over again?

waffe