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Re:F1 Engine Power Secrets (2000) by regomodo on Friday February 11, 2011 @07:27PM (#2208808)
How does 600BHP from 1.5L in 1951 sound? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Racing_Motors_V16
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Re:F1 Engine Power Secrets (2000) by eftpotrm on Saturday February 12, 2011 @04:48AM (#2209734)
Supercharged, unreliable, unsuccessful sadly.

Other early very high power engines:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_engine - 1941 450bhp to 1966 840bhp, equally unsuccessful

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W125 - 1937 600bhp, championship winner

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Re:F1 Engine Power Secrets (2000) by regomodo on Monday February 14, 2011 @05:15AM (#2216200)
Well, controlling 16 sparkplugs with a mechanical distributor at that rpm was always going to lead to timing issues. That much power from such a little engine, when it did work, is amazing to me.
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