A7 V8!

[Ruairidh Dunford]

[Chris KC]

Crikey.
I wonder how long that big end will hold up - is that a 'known' way of doing things?

[Belinni]

Wow! Fantastic!

[John Mason]

Like you Chris I too wonder how long it will last.However if it does last a reasonable time I think that will be to way of doing things for the real petrol heads who race their cars. If experiments and alike were not carried out we would still be with horses.

John Mason.

[Chris KC]

Looking at the crankcase I guess he just wanted to make a point....
I think the more conventional way is two slim rods running on the same journal, I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work - especially if you have the flexibility to stagger the blocks slightly and recover the centreing of rod in bore.

[Alan]

Well Captain Harker managed it.

[Ruairidh Dunford]

I think that this is the most wonderful thing I have seen in a very long time - please watch to the end, characters still exist and really add to life.

[Bill Sheehan]

A little off the subject, but a friend in Western Australia (who has about 5 Sevens, including a blown racing one) decided to put together a replica stripped '29 Chummy to compete at the recent Perkollili historic races.  The circuit is 40k East of Kalgoorlie which itself is over 4 hours drive from Perth.  Racing there commenced in 1905 and in 1931 a Neil Baird stripped his '29 Chummy of mudguards, lights, and just about everything else to compete there. Hugh Fryer's recreation of Baird's car this year did over 50 laps of the 2.6 mile circuit, not all in his own events but (a) he loaned the Chummy to an English visitor, who had blown a huge hole in his Lagonda's block, to also compete all weekend  and (b) for others (including me) to do laps before and after each day's festivities.  Hugh's daily-use sports, which he had brought with him from New Zealand many years ago, also did over 50 laps in practice and events driven by Hugh's partner Nicole.  The circuit is a huge  bowl of Red Dust (the lake dried up 1600 years ago) but Hugh was able to get around averaging about 70 mph.  This prompted one competitor to write in a suburban newspaper that the Austin Seven was fitted with a v-8 engine and had rocks in the back to hold it down!   Ridiculous.   Cheers,  Bill in Oz

[Tony Press]

What about this one- 

http://www.austinsevenfriends.co.uk/foru...p?tid=1048

and this one-

https://wmspear.com/Bantam/Albrov8.html

Apparently the pre-war Harker Special didn't have a true Austin 7 'V8' because it employed two crankshafts.

http://www.da7c.co.uk/History%20Section/...ecial.html

[Ruairidh Dunford]

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