How do I link 2 engines rotating in reverse?

[Mr411Fan]

Correction, I should have said ring gear on the opposite side of the pinion.

[Bob Drury]

  As strange as this sounds, If my memory is correct Tommy Ivo's twin engine Buick powered dragster ran with the flywheels intermeshed, or maybe I am having another flashback..........
                                                            Bob

[Peter Jack]

I have the same memory Bob, and my memory's only slightly older than yours. I'm sure we're right!

Pete

[Graham in Aus]

It's a long thread, but this guy:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=533613

Has joined two via the flywheel starter ring gears!

Lots of info here!

Cheers  

[desotoman]

 As strange as this sounds, If my memory is correct Tommy Ivo's twin engine Buick powered dragster ran with the flywheels intermeshed, or maybe I am having another flashback..........
                                                            Bob

I don't know about Ivo's car, but I do know the Twin Bears Howard's car was that way.

Tom G.

Photo courtesy of Hot Rod Magazine.

[John Burk]

Photos at the link below of what they say are the 1st 10 twin engine drag cars . Goggling "TwoToGo" there is also page 2 and 3 .


http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=%22twotogo%22%20first%20ten&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwotogo.homestead.com%2FTwoToGopageone.html&ei=-_yqTubDJcfr0gH_xIGDDw&usg=AFQjCNEJ6FR1HoGi35LABFYF8BxGWzRPYA&cad=rja

[RichFox]

It's been a long time, but as I remember the Hayward Head Hunters car it had Cadalic engines. And of course I remember the Bustle Bomb as having a Flathead in front and a Chevy six in back.

[Glen]

John, thats a great web site of two to go cars.

[4-barrel Mike]

  As strange as this sounds, If my memory is correct Tommy Ivo's twin engine Buick powered dragster ran with the flywheels intermeshed, or maybe I am having another flashback..........
                                                            Bob

I don't know about Ivo's car, but I do know the Twin Bears Howard's car was that way.

Tom G.

Photo courtesy of Hot Rod Magazine.

Howard's Cams Twin Bears Digger - Twin Bears - Hot Rods
 
Avoiding one major hassle of re-creating the car was that Donnie still had the coupler to mount a flywheel to the front of the lefthand small-block, which is turned around backward. The engines mesh together at this point, and a clutch is attached to the right-side engine.

Check out the picture here: http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicles/hrdp_1008_howards_cams_twin_bears_digger/photo_08.html#ixzz1c7lClxxg

Crazy stuff!   

Mike

[Kato Engineering]

It is well documented that IVO had a side by side dual where one was blown and the other was injected.
obviously the injected unit was the reverse rotation engine setup
they were positioned "normal " and coupled at the flywheels.

[BHR301]

Kato Engineering..Not sure where you got your information but the Ivo twin was injected only, none of his multiple engined cars were blown.

Bill

[Kato Engineering]

should have seperated the two statements..

it is well documented that Ivo had the side by side car.

..........

I do remember seeing a photo on another site of a side by side that one was blown and other was injected..

it might have been on H.a.m.b.
 maybe stan fox remembers this  posting  from a couple of years ago

[John Burk]

In the early 1960s a guy from NJ put together a street roadster with a pair of stock 327s mounted one behind the other . It ran 138 at the drags and he drove it to and from the strip .

[kiwi belly tank]

The Herbert-Steen 4 engine liner has a reverser box in the middle between # 2 & 3 engines. The front two engines face rearward & the rear two engines face forward with a B&J & a clutch at each end. The system worked well with 2100 cu in making 6000hp.
 Sid.

[SPARKY]

if that thing had 6000 hp and it worked well what was the problem