{"id":6262,"date":"2015-10-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2015-10-29T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T10:00:00","slug":"old-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/29\/old-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was in school, an older friend invited me to her husband&#8217;s engine shop. It was pretty cool seeing the shop, all the specialized equipment, and the engines they were working on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015_10_29_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-125\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015_10_29_01.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"2015_10_29_01\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015_10_29_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-126 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015_10_29_02.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"2015_10_29_02\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I don&#8217;t know much about these, but by the plate on the one on the right, that is a Gray Marine Lugger Light Four 69. It made 16 horsepower at 1800 RPM with a 276 cubic inch displacement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015_10_29_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015_10_29_03.jpg\" alt=\"2015_10_29_03\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All I know about this is it&#8217;s a V12 for a boat. It&#8217;s impressive how big the starter is, on the lower right. The chrome tubing is nice, and you can see it hides and contains the wires from the distributor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015_10_29_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-128\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015_10_29_04.jpg\" alt=\"2015_10_29_04\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now this is a beautiful old engine. It&#8217;s a Liberty L-12 airplane. It is a huge V12, roughly the same as the previous one. This was made only between 1917 and 1919, but 20,000 were built. It has a 27 liter displacement, which is roughly 5 times the size of the average modern V8 pickup truck engine, and it made 400 horsepower.\u00a0 It&#8217;s kind of hard to see the scale of this engine in the pictures, but it&#8217;s huge. If I stretched my arms out I might be able to touch both ends. Something I think is cool is how you can see the valve springs and rockers on the top.<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was in school, an older friend invited me to her husband&#8217;s engine shop. It was pretty cool seeing the shop, all the specialized equipment, and the engines they were working on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-engines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}