Tucker or Porsche
- Mark Todorovich
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Tucker or Porsche
I was at Hymen Ltd in St Louis looking at a car for sale for a friend. Look what I saw across the garage floor. An old horizontally opposed flat six engine. It sure wasn't from Porsche but I think they had lots of influence in the design.
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63 Cab?
52 Coupe
56 Speedster project now underway
63 Cab?
- Ron LaDow
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Re: Tucker or Porsche
Mark, I thought Tucker used an aircraft engine.
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"The company first tried the Lycoming aircraft engine, but it would not fit in the car's rear engine compartment.
An air-cooled flat-6 engine, the O-335 made by Air Cooled Motors (and originally intended for the Bell 47),[21] fit, and its 166 hp (124 kW; 168 PS) pleased Tucker. He purchased four samples for $5,000 each, and his engineers converted the 334 cubic inches (5,470 cc) engine to water cooling (a decision that has puzzled historians ever since).[21] The Franklin engine was heavily modified by Tucker's engineers, including Eddie Offutt and Tucker's son Preston, Jr. at his Ypsilanti machine shop. Using an aircraft engine in an automotive application required significant modification; thus, very few parts of the original Franklin engine were retained in the final Tucker engine. This durable modification of the engine was tested at maximum power for 150 hours, the equivalent of 18,000 miles (29,000 km), at full throttle.[22]
Wiki
There's more; the original plan was pretty radical, but never made it into metal.
Oops, I'll be back in a minute; Bing calls!
"The company first tried the Lycoming aircraft engine, but it would not fit in the car's rear engine compartment.
An air-cooled flat-6 engine, the O-335 made by Air Cooled Motors (and originally intended for the Bell 47),[21] fit, and its 166 hp (124 kW; 168 PS) pleased Tucker. He purchased four samples for $5,000 each, and his engineers converted the 334 cubic inches (5,470 cc) engine to water cooling (a decision that has puzzled historians ever since).[21] The Franklin engine was heavily modified by Tucker's engineers, including Eddie Offutt and Tucker's son Preston, Jr. at his Ypsilanti machine shop. Using an aircraft engine in an automotive application required significant modification; thus, very few parts of the original Franklin engine were retained in the final Tucker engine. This durable modification of the engine was tested at maximum power for 150 hours, the equivalent of 18,000 miles (29,000 km), at full throttle.[22]
Wiki
There's more; the original plan was pretty radical, but never made it into metal.
Ron LaDow
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- Martin Benade
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Re: Tucker or Porsche
I was expecting it to be a Tatra until I saw the valve covers. I once read an online post in very broken English explaining how all of Dr Porsche's designs were stolen from the Tatra designer Ledwinka, and that Porsche owners were "soar loosers" who wouldn't admit it.
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62 Cabriolet
56 VW
02 IS 300
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- Jay Wiener
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Re: Tucker or Porsche
Tatra was usually a 8 cylinder air cooled. I own a 603 Tatra
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- Pat Daily
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Re: Tucker or Porsche
The earlier Tatras (1930s) that I have seen had flat 4s. I rode in on in Prague.
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- Dennis ODonnell
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Re: Tucker or Porsche
"...stolen from the Tatra designer Ledwinka."
But Ledwinka stole the wheel concept from Fred Flintstone.
But Ledwinka stole the wheel concept from Fred Flintstone.
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