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From 1976 until 1979, Jerry Grant "drove the most powerful car ever to appear in Indy car racing" - a turbocharged 209 cu in (3.4 L) two-valve, AMC Gen-2 block V8 engine producing 1,100 hp (820 kW; 1,115 PS) in his Eagle 74 chassis. [27] [28] The car was fast on the straightways, but the engine's weight made corners more difficult to handle. [29]
The Mercedes-Benz Indy V8 engine, known as the Ilmor 265-D (1994), [5] and later the Mercedes-Benz IC108 (1995-2000), is a powerful, turbocharged, 2.65-liter, Indy car racing V-8 engine, specially designed, developed, and built by Ilmor, in partnership and collaboration with Mercedes-Benz, to compete in the CART series; between 1994 and 2000.
The 107.8 cu in (1.77 L) is an AMC designed air-cooled V4 engine that was used in AMC's lightweight aluminium-bodied M422 'Mighty Mite' military vehicle, built from January 1960 to January 1963 as an air transportable (by the helicopters of the time) Jeep for the U.S. Marine Corps. [1]
An Offenhauser midget engine, polished for display Offenhauser midget car engine - front view. Offenhauser produced engine blocks in several sizes. These blocks could be bored out or sleeved to vary the cylinder bore, and could be used with crankshafts of various strokes, resulting in a wide variety of engine displacements.
A. J. Foyt obtained the rights to Ford's turbocharged DOHC V-8 Indy engine, and it was subsequently rebadged and rebranded as the Foyt V-8 engine. The Foyt team further developed the powerplant, and ran the 161 cu in (2.64 L) Foyt V-8 engine from 1973 to 1978. A handful of other teams bought and ran Foyt V-8 engines during that timeframe as ...
The American Motor Car Company was a short-lived company in the automotive industry founded in 1906, lasting until 1913. It was based in Indianapolis , Indiana, United States. The American Motor Car Company pioneered the "underslung" design.
Navarro fielded a 1964 Watson car with the AMC 199 engine for three years at the Indianapolis 500. [15] However, the #50 Navarro-Rambler never qualified due to problems with drivers and with the suspension of the cars. [11] [16] The car was also entered at the 1971 IndyCar "Rafaela 300" season opener in Argentina. This was the car's fourth ...
One of the most successful and longest-lived projects of Cosworth has been its Indy car engine program. In 1975; Cosworth developed the DFX, by destroking the engine to 2.65 L and adding a turbocharger, the DFX became the standard engine to run in IndyCar racing, ending the reign of the Offenhauser, and maintaining that position until the late 1980s.