1946 Engine case with 4 Cam & 16V

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I can't hold myself... Must show you guys...
I just bought a REALLY strange engine and what you see is what I know, because that's all I've seen to! I bought it as is and have to wait to getting it home (1100 miles) so I can see what's in it! NOT a clue...

But you can see that the case is from 24.9.46 on the last picture. 🤔
It is 16 valve and 4 cam... and it's not finnished!
Maybe someone tryed to make an aircraft engine, but then it should have double sparks.
We'll see...

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Nice engine ...it does look to be an airplane engine ..its been shown that 4 valve heads don't work vary well in an aircooled engine there's always problems with the exhaust valves on 4 valve air cooled engines ... I can't wait till you open it up to See what's in it ...i hope you can show pics when you do 👍 ...how much you buy this engine for ?? And what country???

[Danwvw]

Wow! Are those Aluminum Cylinders? Can't wait to see how the cams are chained to the crank! What were you thinking of running it in?
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[Rome]

German-made Vogelsang VW-based engine for German WW2 navy landing craft? The aluminum parts actually look almost too good/uncorroded to be that old.

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I know the heads are not finished ,or have many pics of it yet .. but what I was thinking is how would the oil for the cams enter the top intake cams and also how would the oil drain from the top to the bottom. the porsche 4 cam has a tube from the intake cam to the exhaust cams for the oil to drain to 🤔🤔 maybe the person didn't think of it but I can't wait till you open it up and show us what's in it ...im a big big fan of stuff like this I love how people come up with new ideas that no one has seen ..it gives me more confident to make stuff like this do to the fact if they can build stuff like this in there time for sure we can do it with all the technology we have compare to them and they did it come on folks use your brain and start making cool heads for our vw 25hp,36hp,40hp engines 🤔👍👍👏👏

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[snowbug]

Perhaps Subaru cams will bolt right in .
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[56samba]

That must be one of the coolest engines I have ever seen!!! You can be really lucky.

It was like a trend in the 50's to modify especially 25hp aluminium engines to 4 cam engine. I heard people were also using Lloyd Alexander heads. I find it interesting to see casted parts for a unique engine, always have to think about the effort, time and money to build these parts in a small number of units.

Regarding the issue of missing oil in the heads... looks like the oil cooler was placed somewhere else, so tubes could also supply the heads with lubrication?

Can't wait to see more pics and how it looks inside!!

Jan

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[D-train]

What a weapon! Interested to see the internals of it.
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[henry roberts]

is anyone else thinking the cam covers look to be different to the heads/timing chain covers?

not only the alloy a different colour, but some of the details and there looks to be more grot in the fins of the heads.

possibly a later attempt to finish the project off??

i like how you can see the layout markings in the first picture.

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So any new news about the engine ..have you gotten it home already ..

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[anthax]

Läckert fynd!

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[Kjell T]

Finns det några uppgifter på var denna intressanta motor är byggd?

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