Hagar wrote on Jan 7^th, 2007 at 2:23pm:


hopefully i'll be at this event too, its the one of the events that i'm going to make it to this year,
will be trying to persuade a friend to bring his very rare 125 down to the event aswell (matchless 125 of which he owns two that are in full riding condition) although he'll be in the car and i'll hopefully be on my bike.
might even try and convince a friend of mine to fly down there for the day and fly back 

Woodlouse2002 wrote on Jan 7^th, 2007 at 8:06pm:


Sounds like the engine room on a boat!   And it's the weirdest engine i have ever heard of!

I have some sound clips of the 1967 BRM with the H16 engine (two V8's sharing a common crank).  Impressive sounding engine.

Woodlouse2002 wrote on Jan 8^th, 2007 at 4:35pm:

Don't know if enough melded V8's are made to deserve their own letter.    Yeah, I guess it would look like an "X".  You could probably also call in a W since it's two V's, but they aren't laid out side by side.  Still, an interesting engine that makes wonderful sounds but ultimately not a very effective engine.

Chris_F wrote on Jan 9^th, 2007 at 1:54pm:

I've been educated on this engine since yesterday. Cylinders in a H formation, basically two flattned V8's turned on their sides and bolted together. It had two crankshafts.

Boeing27 wrote on Jan 9^th, 2007 at 2:16pm:

A quick google turned up the following:

http://privat.bluezone.no/jerry/linjer/f1sounds.htm

BTW some of the info is wrong, and don't get the Mantra clips by mistake.  It's another great sounding engine, but it's no BRM.  There are others out there so google should turn up more.

The web page attributes the sound to BRMs earlier 1.5L V16 entry but I've seen a bunch of places where the same sound clip is attributed to the later BRM 3.0L H16.  To me it sounds too deep and throaty to be a 1.5L.

Chris_F wrote on Jan 9^th, 2007 at 6:16pm:

Well, marine diesels that put out 3,100bhp are never going to be small. But the Deltic was about half the size and a lot lighter than the equivilant engine made by Mercedies Benz. Plus it produced more power and had two less cylinders. The merc being a V20. So for what they were they were nice, light and compact. Infact it was so light and compact that when it came to servicing them you simply took it out and put another in it's place while it was done.

Boeing27 wrote on Jan 11^th, 2007 at 8:22pm:

Honda makes some pretty nice sport bikes and the S2000 sounds okay, but I wouldn't put them at the top of my list.  Their McLaren Honda F1 engine was a screamer (at near 1000 horsepower from a 1.5L) but the CR-V?!?!  I had a 1994 Civic, drove a 2000 Preleude and both were pretty pedestrian and I've driven Integra Type R's that sounded pretty decent.  But I wouldn't put any of 'em on the top of my list.  For four cylinders my favorites would probably be in the sport bike relm, although Lotus has some pretty nice sounding fours, the Elan, Elite, and Elise (a Yamaha designed mill) come to mind.  MGBs sound pretty nice too, and Formula Atlantics have a nice sound (IIRC they're running I4 Mazda engines now).