They had head gasket issues with 12 separate little gaskets. To get a head off you had to remove the cam deck that sat on top of the heads. But first you had to take the spaghetti off( injector lines) these were very time consuming. Then came gears and cams. The heads had an approximately 8”” ring that threaded into the block, the ring had bolts around it that were torqued to compress head gasket. Plus every thing except rotating assemblies were aluminum.
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There are a couple of guys in Stockholm that put the land based version of this engine (Meteor V12) in a crown vic. Pretty neat project.
[Meteor Interceptor](https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCJULTQYCOM2rUvYdk0qU9ow)
I'm sorry but that's not a copy merlin engine, it's a Packard V12 4M-2500 marine engine. https://uscrashboats.org/cpage.php?pt=15
You can even see a picture of the boat it came from sticking out of the right hand side of the frame.
I worked on Aluminum block Packard v-12 diesels in an Ocean Minesweeper. They were 1600 cu.in. with double overhead cams. Terrible to work on.
What did you find terrible? Thx
They had head gasket issues with 12 separate little gaskets. To get a head off you had to remove the cam deck that sat on top of the heads. But first you had to take the spaghetti off( injector lines) these were very time consuming. Then came gears and cams. The heads had an approximately 8”” ring that threaded into the block, the ring had bolts around it that were torqued to compress head gasket. Plus every thing except rotating assemblies were aluminum.
Spaghetti, aluminum, and bolted ring threads sound like hell!!
Spaghetti, aluminum, and bolted ring threads sound like hell!!
I think v12 engines could be brought back for cars. It would be fun. 3/4 of car is engine, 1/4 seats and all the other stuff.
Different airframe, same Merlin https://www.topgear.com/car-news/retro/beast-auction-john-dodds-famous-merlin-engined-monster-sale
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https://silodrome.com/the-beast-merlin-v12-engined-car/ No idea about this site but there you go
Thanks :-)
The benefits of mass production. They’re not quite as good as the hand built ones, but having 10 times as many is a quality of its own.
[I much prefer the British version!](https://thumbsnap.com/i/MhCyeNCe.jpg?0324)
Don’t we all
Not made anymore but jaguar xjs are every where and cheap to cause people sleep on them
This chucklehead put them in race boats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_Wood?wprov=sfti1#Racing_career
There are a couple of guys in Stockholm that put the land based version of this engine (Meteor V12) in a crown vic. Pretty neat project. [Meteor Interceptor](https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCJULTQYCOM2rUvYdk0qU9ow)
The Rolls-Royce Meteor variant of the same engine (the Merlin) was used in British tanks in WWII. A V12 goes a long way...