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Oh I remember the lawn mower in that style. On one of these I learned about Villiers two strokes. It was a wonderful beast and cut our lawns very competently.

The "Bell Housing" is the main problem when fitting a big V12 to a car. Jay Leno did this wrong and got his bell housing hanging too low. . Can you take the drive line sideways?

Love a big engine! The Meteor is amazing. Have you heard/seen a chap called Charlie Broomfield who has fitted a Meteor to a Rover SD1, utterly bonkers but brilliant too. He's re-engineered it to run on EFI and has upgraded the cams to give a shed load more horse power. He uses to write for Practical Performance Car magazine.

Thanks for the video!! Being from Canada we have the obvious US influence so it's super interesting to see the UK take on things, and, it's impossible to have too much banjo and jazz music in a clip... / Cheers D.

Then of course there is Jay Leno and he has 2 cars with Merlin engines in them, one a Bentley that he had built here in the UK as seen on Top Gear and then one he had built in his own garage in LA, he goes in to great detail about the build and how it is to live with a huge engine car that actually works, once the gearbox and diff got sorted out and it could keep going, then heat, the complete underside of the car is radiators. Enjoy.

The Centurion is a post WW2 tank.

Try finding a chassis from a RR hearse they are a tad longer than the car may be hard to find but easier than the car

Excellent stuff!

very little apparent vibration/torque twist.

❤great content ❤

In the first Gulf, we had a cent ARV (recovery tank) one of the last two in service. To clean the air filters you remove the kidney plates and wash them with fuel. The soldier was cleaning them so obviously you get a lot of fumes, all hatches open. The other one decided to make a brew, as he ignited the little gas burner the gases caught (the two soldiers got out ok) but it was ablaze and parked next to some other vehicles and some ammo. They tried to push it clear with a chally but it was too late, the whole lot went up! I did have a picture, if you can imaging the people in the image were 4mm high (that’s how far the camera was away) the ball of flames and the engine deck lids were shot up into the sky (about 200mm on the picture) so you can imagine the force of the explosion

In the Cromwell tank which was almost the earliest version of tank run with the Meteor the fan was specially designed to move 8000 cu ft per minute through the radiator to prevent overheating. If the engine is ex Centurion it will be an M4b which is a two block engine. Mag drop not to exceed 400 rpm. The Liberty V12 was in WWI in America using RR cylinder dimensions so similar but different! The information that was interesting is the limitation of revs on a Meteor without load. At what point is the chassis and limited bodywork of a road vehicle heavy enough to become a ‘load’. This is very important as running such an engine with this limitation may well mean the usable rev limit drops from 2400 to say 1500 to 1800. This could also apply to other ex aircraft engines. Slide rules out - well you don’t use those now!

Great video, Giving you ideas. I guess you have discounted a Vauxhall 30-98 for a good reason.

Very cool! There is an awesome cut away Merlin in the war memorial museum in Auckland, NZ. Driven off an electric motor so you can see it 'working'. What will you do for a clutch/gearbox?

A real nightmare however for Brian it was worth the effort he is a top Bloke another education thanks.

Love the big old engine's ...I just hope the car haters in the government don't put an end to all the fun 🤔

buy it ! ...what a lush motor ! great stuff mate !

What an awsome engine - hope you will find a good s´chassis, and if not, build one yourself, it will make good videos, and I trust in your craftmanship 👍

I have a friend who put a Meteor in a wooden speedboat, it was called "Wild Horses"

The coventry climax water pumper has got nothing on the meteor, at 260 RPM no less.

Smiles all around when it fired up!❤

Rover P4 chassis?

Hangar 2, Prees Airfield, A41, Prees Heath, Nr Whitchurch, Shropshire, SY13 2HA, UK Lot 401962 Leyland BMC 550 FG 4x2 for Chassis Cab   Tap or pinch to expand

Very informational video. Music to the ears!

I also looked at 2025's, good call.

Hi from NZ, great vid by the way. Just a thought. A Bedford chassis could be called Vauxhall, at a pinch. Keeping it British.....😊

Is there a felt pad in the centre of the distributors cam? If so looks a tad mucky after being left out in the weather.

👍awesome,great job,can’t wait for the next chapter,hurry up🤪👍💪

What a brilliant engine that Meteor is!! Thanks for sharing that with us all. Good luck with your hunt for a chassis🤞👍

Would you contact Ivan shed racing about a chassis he is on youtube like yourself.

Hotchkiss AM80 or Delahaye, strong well designed frames. The Chrysler chassis was strong enough to survive the event at Le Mans. They coped with beach racing in NZ. Daimler or Humber, large formal carriage work was carried, Both companies developed scout cars using the chassis.

you can buy a repro 1932 Ford chassis it can handle a lot of torque and also get superb pre war axles to handle that sort of HP

A possible chassis would be something like a Dodge 50

One chassis I've never heard of being used but may be reasonably common and big enough is Daimler, I know of someone who until about 5 years ago had a Majestic chassis, engine (the 4.5ltr V8) and gearbox.

There are probably a few Railton chassis out there. Have you looked at those? I know it's originally an imported American chassis but it would be cool to build a Railton special and you do have an American engine for it.

What a beast of an engine! Loved the mile-wide grin on your face, too. Good luck with the chassis hunt.

What a motor!

I can recommend Mr Hewes channel if you like tanks and big engines etc . Love what your trying to achieve

Superb film! When you were grinning like a Cheshire Cat, so was I!

Totally awesome.

Just found your channel due to the Swamp miester Brian , loving the La France content 🎉🎉🎉❤

more annoying irritating intrusive awefull repetitive background noise turn it off dummy,, unwatchable and unlistenable awefull dreadful

That dist being a 'Delco Remi' unit was a brand popular in many early GM vehicles, so parts should be plentiful as many interchange between models..quite possibly your Vauxhall or Bedford makes may have used them...thats the first piece of the puzzle sorted

Great job! Some cool fixes! Love the stuff you do with Bry at Oak Swamp.

“There is only one way to eat an elephant: one bite at a time.” Cheers.

You’re a very interesting, informative man to watch. Always a learning day on The Bracket Factory

CLever bugger 😂

Great video. Very informative. Can’t wait to hear the engine run. Good luck !

Great to watch your creativity....fantastic👌👍

Btw, have you seen the early 30s Chevy chassis for sale in the Automobile magazine?