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Originally posted by Pierre Martins
... but there was something about the Italians building speed boats fitted with Alfa race car engines.
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Thinking about this, there is something strange in this. :confused: The engine looks like a (admittedly large) version of the 6C engine designed by Vittoro Jano, but those engines were capable of a much higher specific output than the quoted 95 BHP from 3.5 litres. If they were "Alfa race car engines" you'd have expected them to be supercharged and you'd have been looking at in excess of 75 BHP/Litre on petrol or 150 BHP/Litre on Nitro. Yes, those figures were from race engines, but those were the days when a race engine would last 1,000 miles which is probably a lot further than a "suicide" ship would ever do. So why the drastically low powered version? :confused:
Duncan
PS Would the VSCC allow me to build a special using one of these engines?