Flat 8 ? I've seen pics of the Lind one, how about a running one here! Options

[Mueller]

If VW made a flat 8 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


Brazilian Flat 8

I know, not a Type IV, I would think it would be close enough to a Type I to be done the same way?

[veekry9]

Air or Water is the question you must resolve first to begin planning the ultimate 8 and how the vibes will be cured.
Swept volume larger than the 3L of the factory engines is limited by the weight that will shake.
With the factory S4 heads in good detailed form,a massive task is solved.
The whole idea is preposterous of course,taking the heads off a damaged V8 and adapt them to a custom F8 block.
Then adding turbos when the reliability is proven.Mission creep,yeah but so very interesting to develop and prove out.
Bruce Crower ran the Indy 500 with such an engine,the magneto drive DNF'd the car,running big pressure and methanol.

(Edit:03/08/15: Pocono 500 1977 Chuck Gurney #57

Nope,Not the Indy 500 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
Eagle 72 [7205] (Chuck Gurney): AAR's third team car in 1972 and entered at the Indy 500 as the #48 Mystery Eagle for Jerry Grant. Also raced by Grant at other races that season, taking pole position at Ontario with the first official lap at over 200 mph. The car was sold to engine specialist Bruce H. Crower for 1973 and entered as his #23 Crower Cams car as a test bed for various Chevrolet engine projects over the next three seasons. In late 1976, the car returned again as the #57, powered by Crower's own flat-8 engine. Crower then acquired a 1974 Eagle for 1978 and the '72 car was retired. It was still owned by Crower in 2014.)



Pretty sure that's Dan Gurney in the blue shirt.