Engine

Ad: This forum contains affiliate links to products on Amazon and eBay. More information in Terms and rules

varing

Airman
12
0
Jan 7, 2008
Hallo

Can you tell me what motor is it ?
(airplane engine seven cylinder radial)
Aare135.jpg

Aare134.jpg
 
Judging by the culinder design and the pushrod arrangement I'd say a Gnome Rhone 7K Titan Major, or licence-built dirivative.

The bore and stroke should be 146 mm (5.75") and 165 mm (6.5").


Could you provide any more information on the engine?
 
Actually I think that's a picture of a 14N, though they look very similar.


And looking at your top photo again, the number of pushrod ports would imply a 14 cylinder engine, so it could be a 14K. (or 14N, and therewere Italian dirivatives as well)
The reduction gearing seems to be missing though. And the entire rear half of the engine is missing. (which is why you must have thought it was a 7-cylinder engine) Had it not been for that pushrod configuration (with all located at the front, instead of seperate rows front and back) it may have been dificult to realize it was a 14-cylinder engine.

(It seems I was pretty close with my initial guess ;) )


The 14K seems to have coarser and more widely spaced cooling finns, while that of the 14N above match your engine more closely. (as well as the Itialian Piaggio P.XI's cooling finns)

-the 14K mistral major:
136%20%20Gnome%20%20Rhone%20Mistral.jpg


and the Piaggio P.XI for comparison
Piaggio-P.XI.jpg







Can you do some measurements on the cylinder? (the bore should be easy enough given the missing cylinders, but you should be able to get a rough estimation of the stroke from the remaining cylinder)
 
Hello again!
Some more details:cilinder diameter-144 mm, stroke-170 mm
and also a few more pictures:
P1020856.jpg

P1020830.jpg

P1020824.jpg

P1020838.jpg

P1020813.jpg

P1020811.jpg

P1020821.jpg

P1020822.jpg

P1020871.jpg

P1020870.jpg

P1020869.jpg

P1020868.jpg

P1020863.jpg

P1020860.jpg

P1020866.jpg

P1020853.jpg

P1020852.jpg

P1020848.jpg

P1020828.jpg

P1020847.jpg

P1020839.jpg

P1020829.jpg



perhaps someone please share the information that the engine is it?
 
It is soviet M-88 engine because serial numbers and labels, perhaps from Il-4 bomber.

Yet it also has a German Inspection stamp on it. I've never heard of Russian engines being made for the Germans, so wonder if this was a captured and tested item.

By the way... the cylinder 'filler' appears to be part of an Estonian cigarette box! (The wonders of Google... :) ):
VANA PABEROSSI KARP " ORIENT EKSTRA " AKSIISI LIPIK , ILUS ! (63199102) - Osta.ee
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Back