By Jeff Glucker
A team of wonderful maniacs are taking a 2006 Ford Crown Vic and pairing it with the Rolls-Royce Meteor engine. This is an engine originally designed for use in Tanks during World War II. It’s a 12-cylinder unit and it’s 27-liters large. Fitted into the nose of a Crown Vic, and boasting a pair of turbochargers, the team is looking to see it produce over 2,500 horsepower and more than 3,000 lb-ft of torque. In an old cop car. And it’s just been fired up for the first time in more than five years.
The noise this thing produces is amazing.
I can’t wait to see what this team does from here on out. The car needs a completely fresh interior fabricated as the engine reaches pretty far back into the passenger compartment. It looks like a transmission needs to be bolted up. And the engine requires a bit of tuning and the turbos need to be connected. But that big beast of a motor has been fired up. It runs.
This thing is going to work, and that’s wild.
The size of that engine is insane. The interior challenge is not a small one, and I also wonder if the remaining chassis is rigid enough for the weight and power of this motor. Crazy Swedes!
I have to assume the engine now serves as part of the chassis
This pleases us.
For reference, the Meteor was a Rolls Royce Merlin minus the supercharger so by turbocharging a Meteor these mad lads are effectively building an alternate Merlin. Historically the US was the only user of turbocharged aircraft engines in WWII with the Allison V12 and several Pratt & Whitney radials
Given the sheer size of that engine, I think I would have considered installing it behind the front seats in a MR layout. Even if they get it to drive, it’s not going to handle well at all.
Probably handles like…
(sunglasses on)
A TANK.
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Look up the Meteor engined Rover SD1 built by Charlie Broomfield all the way back in the 00s, it’s still ahead of the driver but it goes through the firewall and he’s almost sitting in the back seats.
Also the 55 Chevy “Final Objective” built by Rod Hadfield
Also Meteor Interceptor hey? They could have used that in the Armageddon movie…
There’s a sound like a cartoon bullet ricochet right at the end of each attempt to start the engine; like when you try to make a bell out of an oxygen cylinder.
It seems to make about as much sense as anything else in this video.