any decent NA engine will have a manifold like that. i have one next to me right now from a citroen xsara. it's not quite the same because the engine is transverse but the beauty of equal length tubular headers is undeniable. imagine if they made an H20. it would look and sound 25% better.
@@puebespuebes8589 probably something to do with exhaust scavenging. not sure what benefits that has for a racing car but on a road car it improves efficiency at low rpm by using the flow of the exiting exhaust gases to draw more mixture in on the next stroke.
@@puebespuebes8589 It improves scavenging and the intake of the next fuel charge. The auto unions and virtually all ww2 fighter aircraft were supercharged, so they don't gain as much from equal length headers as an NA engine.
I have had fantasies about making a replica of these before, would it be realistic to have a glimpse on those drawings?! I do technical drafting, I lack words to describe the mixture of gratitude and happiness I'd experience just from gathering a few ideas and lessons from sneak picking on them ❤
@@javier987 I unfortunately don’t have the blueprints to hand but I do have a couple of the drawings. If you give me your email address I’ll happily send them over
Can you even imagine synchronizing 16 intakes to make this beast run smoothly and create the most power? Balancing that crank to handle 16 pistons must have been a nightmare!
Actually it's two crankshafts, one between the upper eight cylinders, one between the lower eight, geared together in a bulkhead at the rear of the engine, driving an output shaft to the gearbox and axles. I'm not sure if that design was considered a "transaxle" or not. Edit: and oh man yeah, I bet synchronizing 16 throttles was an art! Did you notice how smoothly it idled? Amazing!
@@stringpicker5468 Absolutely! Alex Henshawe described the Sabre-engined Typhoon as having a “Thrilling high-speed sound!” He was Chief Test Pilot at Castle Bromwich, testing Spitfires and Lancasters.
My dad took me to the 66 USGP at Watkins Glen and bought us pit passes. Stood 4’ away while mechanics revved Jim Clark’s Lotus. My ears are still ringing. So lovely to hear that sound again.
😂🤣these can be wacked together by a couple of bloke's over a few weekend's hence the layout and choice of head's ect! 😂 Modern is something you can only dream about dreaming about driving with billions of $$$ of research and engineering, every stroke is mechanically and mathematically perfect where as the other is missing every second stroke and struggling to stay alive and the only reason it's probably still going is from all the gaps and lost compression just like every guys favourite mower or chainsaw.
@@hulkgqnissanpatrol6121 Doesn't mean they have to be so boring and nearly soulless. I rewatch old F1 races all the time because the cars had personality like this one, races from the hybrid V-6 era, not so much.
This 3.0L -16 cylinders H - layout sounds so awesome is best porn for ears and those spaghetti ceramic coated exhaust pipes just amplify more the orgasmic sound..
If they made every F1 car have 16 cylinder 3 litre engines today the ienterest would easily double. I have today not really much interest in following F1 apart from take notice on who won... To watch a race is not interesting as the engines sound more boring than most sports cars that is sold on the street.
BRM seemed to be having a long-running wager with somebody as to the most unfeasibly complicated engine configurations they come up with. 1.5 litre supercharged V16 ... an excellent start. Then a straightforward 2.5 litre four, then a 1.5 litre V8 .. far too simple. I've got it! How about an H16? Two flat eights on top of each other, eight camshafts, four ignition systems! Fantastic!
@@THESLlCK Two cranks, one on top of the other, geared together. Fears over fragility / space for cooling meant they had to put an idler gear in between to cover the vertical distance between the crankshafts. Later they wished they'd been braver as it would have been much lighter and lower, and it didn't need the space anyway, as they proved with later versions (already too late).
@@identiticrisis Honestly that second revision was brilliant, simply brilliant. What I wonder is, would it function better as an X-16, all pistons mounted on one crank, but in nearly an identical configuration? It also makes me consider wear on parts being distributed better on an H-pattern but it's really all my own speculations. Regardless, insane technology
@@THESLlCK I couldn't say really, but the X configuration is taller still. You can't easily have four conrods side by side on a crankpin, so the crank would be longer and the banks heavily offset, with or without separate pins - possibly not much worse than a boxer engine. I don't think master and slave rods are a good idea on a high revving engine, but could be wrong. At least it wouldn't have had the same exploding crank problem to deal with, which even the later H16 was still susceptible to! The H with counter rotating cranks is also more easily balanced should the need arise.
@@thatonenigeriansformula the one you’re thinking of is Riley Stair’s 1970 Firebird. Unfortunately he undid that setup but now he’s making close to 1,000hp when pushing the engine. Over 16:1 compression.
Take a look at Gurney's 1967 Gurney/Weslake F1 car, the so called "Mag Ti" car, for some seriously sexy vintage exhaust porn. In fact I think that's the most beautiful racing car ever built.
The designer of this H16 engine, GD (Geoff) Johnson, joined British Leyland (Austin Morris) in January 1970 as Chief Designer (Petrol Engines). I joined his Longbridge Engineering Block team at the same time as a lowly petrol engine designer Grade 2 (of 6). GDJ often came around to our drawing boards with a roll of BRM H16 engine drawings under his arm to provide an example of how we should be designing our tiny 1 litre SOHC alloy headed new engine. GDJ was a great boss and we all respected him for his past designs.
@Bikerbuoy (and Johnson) were/are right - Karl Ludvigsen's "Classic Racing Engines" has Rudd heading the project and Geoff Johnson as chief designer. Rudd made the choice of a V16 based on the proven valvetrain, piston, rods & combustion chamber of the very successful V8s. Things went a bit awry after that though. If I knew where my copy of "It was fun" by Tony Rudd was, I could see what he said about it. It was a great idea in principle, but in practice wasn't able to get the packaging they needed, and even the magnesium-block version was way too heavy (a magnesium engine block!) Bikerbuoy, why did BL never properly develop the Mini?
@@thosdot6497 Short answer? BL never had the money. The ADO74, a completely new 'mini', took care of all the Issy-based cost issues such as rusting external body flanges front to back. Sub-frame mountings (corrosion again) and even clutch servicing. The all-new H series 1 litre was 'unit construction' with just one major power unit casting for engine and trans (think 4 cyl motorcycle engine). It had a SOHC alloy head and no crossover parts from the A Series. It developed 51bhp at 5750rpm on its first dyno test (single carb) on 12 Dec 1971.. The clutch was 'inside-out' allowing a lightweight plastic cover, unstressed by the clutch operating mechanism. The entire car was just as radical...but the project was cancelled for lack of cash.
It totally blows my mind how these things were built compared to modern F1, everything was on paper, books full of overlays showing complete engine make up, chassis, everything handmade, i live 3 miles from Bourne and drive by where the old BRM factory was everyday, its mind blowing how small it all was compared to driving by redbull in Milton Keynes or the Mercedes factory's in Northampton nowadays , its an economy now, thousands of people involved in producing a car
Nice! I love that car. I love that sound! Evidently, the Brits mastered the V-12 and V-16 configurations. When I watched the movie "Grand Prix", I was rooting for the BRM. Talk about Beauty and the BEAST.
Holy s**t that thing is truly awesome! I can just imagine rounding a corner in that thing and just hammering it out of that corner into a straight. Wow.
That has a beautiful melodious exhaust note! I had no idea this type of engine existed. That would be something to see lapping the track with some wings on it and some downforce.
Forget to say! I just love the looks of those 60’s F1 cars. BRM’s, Lotus, McLaren’s and let’s not forget the most beautiful of them all: Dan Gurney’s Eagle!
I remember both cars powered by the H16 BRM engine, the BRM didn't win any race, the Lotus driven by Jim Clark won the USA Grand Prix 1966. It was the only victory of this engine. What a sound, what a brilliant technology. Thanks Bozzy, nice job once again
I'm not sure that "brilliant" is the best description! One Grand Prix win despite major development time and costs ... it is a fascinating and remarkable engine but it ultimately fell short ...
@@Spudchucker92 I'd rather see anything besides one manufacturer leading the championship 95% of the time over the past 7 years. Having engines blow is a lot more exciting than predetermined outcomes.
@@Spudchucker92 or we could ditch modern crap and every ounce of this EV garbage they're pushing I hope you were really enjoying formula E when all the cars ran out of power
Wow! Who would have thought that today, decades after this car ran in anger, that we would be able to hear and see it go, once again? Thanks for bringing this to us, 19Bozzy92.
Brabham won the world championship that year using a 16 valve V8 based on the Buick/Rover aluminium block designed and manufactured in Australia by Repco.
And Hulme, racing for Jack's team, was WDC the next season, winning Brabham the Constructor's championship as well. Essentially a small step from an F2 chassis, robust and dependable.
That, is exactly the point of the design. 👍 Only thing that comes close to amount of power produced in smallest packaging would be the Veyrons W12, or the 787B rotary.
@@PiDsPagePrototypes The Ford Cosworth DFV V-8 was more compact, lighter, and more powerful in 1967 when it made it's debut at the Dutch Grand Prix. Plus it didn't have the oil leak issues that the H-16 had.
Very cool. Thanks! The H16 scored a single GP win: Watkins Glen 1966 - Jim Clark/Lotus 43. I saw Jochen Rindt win his first GP, at the Glen 1969. Piers Courage second, John Surtees third (his last podium). Very long time ago, and not just chronologically...
@@kenchristie9214 ...umm...Jack Brabham had no connection with BRM (British Racing Motors) which was run by Sir Alfred Owen. Tony Rudd designed the H-16. My point is that what looks like a great idea on paper may not translate well into a great engine.
Man, changing the engine must have been a suuuuuuuck-FEST! "Hmmmm...small leak in bank #4. All right, lads - put her on these milk crates and off you go. Pip, pip." Another high quality video, thanks Bozzy!
@CedrickTheBro comparatively speaking, they sound awful. A street legal stock GTR NISMO is a fantastic sounding turbo V6, the modern F1's have no excuse for sounding that awful
@CedrickTheBro I heard them in person, they're just not as good as the v8's and v10's and v12's and v16's and h16's and literally ANY other engine configuration
@@chandansoren8002 actually it's just the opposite they have the "Audio Up " feature on at times during the TV telecast to make the cars sound louder to viewers
@@THESLlCK Yes!!! If F1 cared about fans and fan-reaction... The Lancia Ferrari Dino V6 mid-70's sounds great! Copy that sound for f1 if you must have v6's
We have lost so much in F1. This is a gem. The people who designed, maintained and drove them had passion. Not like today where the only passion is for the money sponsors pay them
Yep. Tempered by the knowledge that the men who drove them had an alarming tendency to die in them with an unnerving regularity. Whereas today, the drivers tend to retire with fat wallets and live to a ripe old age (or will do in time). F1 is still a young mans game, more so now than back in this cars hey day.
@@kenchristie9214 - you what? BRM is British Racing Machines. It had absolutely nothing to do with Black Jack Brabham - the man behind the Repco-Brabham formula one team. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRM_P83 Brabham - Wikipedia
@@THESLlCK - rubbish. These modern V6 TURBO engines drive the cars way faster than the atmo V10's can. Especially true at the high altitude tracks like Mexico. Don't forget the first turbo era had 4 cylinder cars blowing away the atmo v8 and V12 cars every damn race. The modern turbos are vastly more refined, powerful and reliable.
Fascinating. So complicated. Lots of power...but lots of weight. Very difficult to maintain. Not really surprising that this engine did not overshadow everything else - as it's designer thought it would. Still - kudos for creativity and the willingness to take such a risk.
As any open class should be! F1 stopped being F1 the day the started implementing rules to slow the cars down. Its an open class FFS! If someone wants to strap rockets to the car let him! If you don't want to compete with that then don;t race in the open class!
the beauty of uppy downy ,uppy downy turning into roundy roundy and then into a diff to make forward.. .With that sound is just perfect machinery and design .. Love it
Awesome video, and rare because there are very few audio and visual sources for this engine. It's a shame that there may never be a good audio source for it at full tilt like there is for the BRM V16 F1 engine. Seems that they take it very gingerly every time the H16 comes out to play. Thanks!
@@RukaGoldheart no more than the next guy. it wasn't very competitive but it sounded awesome back when they were using them and not so concerned about blowing up a work of art.
Why d'you think wings on racing cars are silly? They aid in the control of the car at high speed, allowing for faster speeds and, in turn, faster racing. Plus those old cars barely had any mechanical grip, let alone aero! They're cool but essentially coffins with wheels. Genuinely asking by the way, don't mean to come off as rude :)
How could Anyone not Love THIS BRM. Let Today's F1's Return to Watkins Glen , so that Thunder can Rattle and Shake the Grapes from the Vine. Beautiful! Thanks Jimmy 5:13 EST.
Hearing old audio of this car in action really gives me goosebumps. It sounds like a mid to late 90s NASCAR stock car almost. Like what Sterling Marlin's team used for the exhaust back then. Dr. Gas exhaust.
Most old audio is actually of the V16 from the type 15 car. Audio of the BRM is extremely hard to come by. There's a literal handful of videos on youtube with actual audio of the H16 and none in anger
If I could have just one (motoring) wish in my life it would be to drive this car!!! Loved it the day it came out even though it was pretty ordinary but honestly it is the best looking and sounding car ever!
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The exhausts alone are a work of art.
any decent NA engine will have a manifold like that. i have one next to me right now from a citroen xsara. it's not quite the same because the engine is transverse but the beauty of equal length tubular headers is undeniable. imagine if they made an H20. it would look and sound 25% better.
@@JTV84why not use a straight exhaust for each cylinder like the auto union or fighter aircraft ?
@@puebespuebes8589 probably something to do with exhaust scavenging. not sure what benefits that has for a racing car but on a road car it improves efficiency at low rpm by using the flow of the exiting exhaust gases to draw more mixture in on the next stroke.
@@puebespuebes8589 It improves scavenging and the intake of the next fuel charge. The auto unions and virtually all ww2 fighter aircraft were supercharged, so they don't gain as much from equal length headers as an NA engine.
My grandad designed this engine alongside tony rudd. He still has the original blue prints and exploded views of it
Can I have a copy ? I'll frame it and put it in my office.
shoutout to your grandad for having created such a magnificent machine !
Frame those blue prints
I have had fantasies about making a replica of these before, would it be realistic to have a glimpse on those drawings?! I do technical drafting, I lack words to describe the mixture of gratitude and happiness I'd experience just from gathering a few ideas and lessons from sneak picking on them ❤
@@javier987 I unfortunately don’t have the blueprints to hand but I do have a couple of the drawings. If you give me your email address I’ll happily send them over
Can you even imagine synchronizing 16 intakes to make this beast run smoothly and create the most power?
Balancing that crank to handle 16 pistons must have been a nightmare!
Actually it's two crankshafts, one between the upper eight cylinders, one between the lower eight, geared together in a bulkhead at the rear of the engine, driving an output shaft to the gearbox and axles. I'm not sure if that design was considered a "transaxle" or not.
Edit: and oh man yeah, I bet synchronizing 16 throttles was an art! Did you notice how smoothly it idled? Amazing!
If you can build an engine like that you are capable of building a rocket to the moon.
And this is well before the high tech we have today, probably all drawn on sheets of paper and tested by crude trial and error
Consider then the Napier Sabre aero engine from 1943. It was an H-24 with sleeve valves. A it's top it was 4400hp.
@@stringpicker5468
Absolutely!
Alex Henshawe described the Sabre-engined Typhoon as having a “Thrilling high-speed sound!” He was Chief Test Pilot at Castle Bromwich, testing Spitfires and Lancasters.
My dad took me to the 66 USGP at Watkins Glen and bought us pit passes. Stood 4’ away while mechanics revved Jim Clark’s Lotus. My ears are still ringing. So lovely to hear that sound again.
Jim Clark was the GOAT
that’s so cool! i wish i could have seen these incredible cars race back in the day
What an experience mate, I am so jealous. Good for you, cheers!
Love it! Sounds 1000X better than the vacuum sweepers we watch today.
Lol🤣🤣 exactly 😉
You got that right.....
😂🤣these can be wacked together by a couple of bloke's over a few weekend's hence the layout and choice of head's ect! 😂
Modern is something you can only dream about dreaming about driving with billions of $$$ of research and engineering, every stroke is mechanically and mathematically perfect where as the other is missing every second stroke and struggling to stay alive and the only reason it's probably still going is from all the gaps and lost compression just like every guys favourite mower or chainsaw.
@@hulkgqnissanpatrol6121 Doesn't mean they have to be so boring and nearly soulless. I rewatch old F1 races all the time because the cars had personality like this one, races from the hybrid V-6 era, not so much.
@@anydaynow01 it wasn't a reply to you.
And I agree.
sounds better than the whole grid in 2021!
Amen!
darn right
haha new sound bad old sound good
@@TheEiji screw off, you know the TTV6 vacuum cleaner sounds like crap.
even my toaster does that lol
What a beautifully absurd monster of an engine. Need more footage putting it through the paces!
Beautiful but deadly. No ground force, no crumple zones, just horsepower, and raw courage.
AMEN. Raw courage
I was about to say "Good enough for Clarky good enough for me mate!" and then I remembered Hockenheimring. Sorry Jimmy!
Well it did have Jackie Stewart.
And?It's about driving the car that you have within its limits
Yeah but remember youll be thrown clear of the wreckage.
Fabulous, looks and sounds so good. The drivers in this era were real hero's.
This 3.0L -16 cylinders H - layout sounds so awesome is best porn for ears and those spaghetti ceramic coated exhaust pipes just amplify more the orgasmic sound..
Ballsey not heroes.
There is just something with the 60’s F1 cars. Engine, wheels and minimalistic chassis… and the sound…👌🏻
Unfortunately very dangerous chassis
If they made every F1 car have 16 cylinder 3 litre engines today the ienterest would easily double. I have today not really much interest in following F1 apart from take notice on who won... To watch a race is not interesting as the engines sound more boring than most sports cars that is sold on the street.
BRM seemed to be having a long-running wager with somebody as to the most unfeasibly complicated engine configurations they come up with. 1.5 litre supercharged V16 ... an excellent start. Then a straightforward 2.5 litre four, then a 1.5 litre V8 .. far too simple. I've got it! How about an H16? Two flat eights on top of each other, eight camshafts, four ignition systems! Fantastic!
were they joined by one crankshaft, or was it two crankshafts timed together with some kind of connection like a gear, or something else??
@@THESLlCK Two cranks, one on top of the other, geared together. Fears over fragility / space for cooling meant they had to put an idler gear in between to cover the vertical distance between the crankshafts. Later they wished they'd been braver as it would have been much lighter and lower, and it didn't need the space anyway, as they proved with later versions (already too late).
@@identiticrisis Honestly that second revision was brilliant, simply brilliant.
What I wonder is, would it function better as an X-16, all pistons mounted on one crank, but in nearly an identical configuration?
It also makes me consider wear on parts being distributed better on an H-pattern but it's really all my own speculations.
Regardless, insane technology
@@THESLlCK I couldn't say really, but the X configuration is taller still. You can't easily have four conrods side by side on a crankpin, so the crank would be longer and the banks heavily offset, with or without separate pins - possibly not much worse than a boxer engine. I don't think master and slave rods are a good idea on a high revving engine, but could be wrong.
At least it wouldn't have had the same exploding crank problem to deal with, which even the later H16 was still susceptible to! The H with counter rotating cranks is also more easily balanced should the need arise.
@@identiticrisis as chaotic as this engine system sounds, it's still incredibly cool. Thanks for all the information!
I just love vintage f1 cars. The death years are especially alluring. Those cars man....damn
Jackie Stewart: “So what aero package are we running?”
BRM: “Aero package?”
Well, Sir Jackie was known "The Wee Scot", so he did sit pretty low, the '66 version of "aero packaging"!
All car no aero back then. The best era of F1.
@@machtschnell7452 So isses!
@@machtschnell7452 when drivers died every race. Ah, the good old days.
@@machtschnell7452 maybe if Clark hadn’t gotten killed in one of those low flying coffins.
Incredible. Can only dream about driving something like this some day. Not even flat out, just an 80% lap on whatever circuit. Thanks for sharing!
lol even sitting in one of these is a dream
@@DanishAZ-mp7tm 100% agree! I would never even get to hear something like this without Bozzy!
That bundle of snakes header is the most beautifully chaotic exhausts I have ever seen, that's incredible!
Bro your missing out some 8-1 headers look insane , theres this one restomod pontiac that literally as 100 feet of exhaust tubing
@@thatonenigeriansformula the one you’re thinking of is Riley Stair’s 1970 Firebird. Unfortunately he undid that setup but now he’s making close to 1,000hp when pushing the engine. Over 16:1 compression.
Take a look at Gurney's 1967 Gurney/Weslake F1 car, the so called "Mag Ti" car, for some seriously sexy vintage exhaust porn. In fact I think that's the most beautiful racing car ever built.
@@bbb462cid I would argue the car itself looks like a tube of toothpaste but yes that. isa lovely exhaust setup
@@THESLlCK We buy different brands of toothpaste
The designer of this H16 engine, GD (Geoff) Johnson, joined British Leyland (Austin Morris) in January 1970 as Chief Designer (Petrol Engines).
I joined his Longbridge Engineering Block team at the same time as a lowly petrol engine designer Grade 2 (of 6). GDJ often came around to our drawing boards with a roll of BRM H16 engine drawings under his arm to provide an example of how we should be designing our tiny 1 litre SOHC alloy headed new engine. GDJ was a great boss and we all respected him for his past designs.
What an awesome comment qudos to you my man.
The H16 was designed by Tony Rudd..
@@lameduck3630 Well then, you'll know better than Geoff what part he really played in the design of the BRM H16.
@Bikerbuoy (and Johnson) were/are right - Karl Ludvigsen's "Classic Racing Engines" has Rudd heading the project and Geoff Johnson as chief designer. Rudd made the choice of a V16 based on the proven valvetrain, piston, rods & combustion chamber of the very successful V8s. Things went a bit awry after that though. If I knew where my copy of "It was fun" by Tony Rudd was, I could see what he said about it. It was a great idea in principle, but in practice wasn't able to get the packaging they needed, and even the magnesium-block version was way too heavy (a magnesium engine block!)
Bikerbuoy, why did BL never properly develop the Mini?
@@thosdot6497 Short answer? BL never had the money. The ADO74, a completely new 'mini', took care of all the Issy-based cost issues such as rusting external body flanges front to back. Sub-frame mountings (corrosion again) and even clutch servicing. The all-new H series 1 litre was 'unit construction' with just one major power unit casting for engine and trans (think 4 cyl motorcycle engine). It had a SOHC alloy head and no crossover parts from the A Series. It developed 51bhp at 5750rpm on its first dyno test (single carb) on 12 Dec 1971.. The clutch was 'inside-out' allowing a lightweight plastic cover, unstressed by the clutch operating mechanism.
The entire car was just as radical...but the project was cancelled for lack of cash.
It totally blows my mind how these things were built compared to modern F1, everything was on paper, books full of overlays showing complete engine make up, chassis, everything handmade, i live 3 miles from Bourne and drive by where the old BRM factory was everyday, its mind blowing how small it all was compared to driving by redbull in Milton Keynes or the Mercedes factory's in Northampton nowadays , its an economy now, thousands of people involved in producing a car
Thank you Bozzy!!!!
Dude you are addicted to cars
A Bozzy-filmed Tedward POV drive... How do we make this happen? It could be an '89 Volkswagen Cabriolet and I'd still watch!
Who's Bozzy?
Nice! I love that car. I love that sound! Evidently, the Brits mastered the V-12 and V-16 configurations. When I watched the movie "Grand Prix", I was rooting for the BRM. Talk about Beauty and the BEAST.
I love the steering wheel, all it does is move the steering position of the front wheels and that's how it should be !
Right because we sure know better than the engineers.
@@user-360johnn just had to be that guy didn't ya.
@@peterpemrich6962 yup
@@user-360johnn racing is always the best when the driver simply drives flat out without worrying about microseconds all the damn time
@@joshjackburns ever watched Karts?
Holy s**t that thing is truly awesome! I can just imagine rounding a corner in that thing and just hammering it out of that corner into a straight. Wow.
That has a beautiful melodious exhaust note! I had no idea this type of engine existed. That would be something to see lapping the track with some wings on it and some downforce.
Forget to say! I just love the looks of those 60’s F1 cars. BRM’s, Lotus, McLaren’s and let’s not forget the most beautiful of them all: Dan Gurney’s
Eagle!
Good old times.
The sound of 16 cylinders is maniac ‼️‼️‼️🏎️
Greetings from 🇩🇪👍👌👏👏👏
These days were better ❤👏 what a fantastic sound, a real engine 👍🫶
I remember both cars powered by the H16 BRM engine, the BRM didn't win any race, the Lotus driven by Jim Clark won the USA Grand Prix 1966. It was the only victory of this engine. What a sound, what a brilliant technology. Thanks Bozzy, nice job once again
I'm not sure that "brilliant" is the best description! One Grand Prix win despite major development time and costs ... it is a fascinating and remarkable engine but it ultimately fell short ...
It may not have been the fastest, or the most reliable... but man that thing looks BADASS!!!!
To quote the terminator
“Old not obsolete”
That thing can still kick ass
Glad I'm not the only one, that car is beautiful
It was a complete piece of crap. What good is sound? You race to win!
Just need 19 more for this weekend's grand Prix...
With 550+ hp with 1960's tech, imagine what this engine could do today if it was built with modern parts? I'd watch for sure.
Or we could keep today's engines and actually witness a race...not an engine failure every other lap.
@@Spudchucker92 I'd rather see anything besides one manufacturer leading the championship 95% of the time over the past 7 years. Having engines blow is a lot more exciting than predetermined outcomes.
@@Spudchucker92 or we could ditch modern crap and every ounce of this EV garbage they're pushing
I hope you were really enjoying formula E when all the cars ran out of power
Good speech
I love the relative simplicity of this era.
And then the mental engine layout.....
Quite possibly the best company name ever.brm,sums up the sound perfectly.
Wow! Who would have thought that today, decades after this car ran in anger, that we would be able to hear and see it go, once again? Thanks for bringing this to us, 19Bozzy92.
Brabham won the world championship that year using a 16 valve V8 based on the Buick/Rover aluminium block designed and manufactured in Australia by Repco.
didnt they make a flat plane crank for it as well?
And Hulme, racing for Jack's team, was WDC the next season, winning Brabham the Constructor's championship as well. Essentially a small step from an F2 chassis, robust and dependable.
It is incredible how compact that engine is!
That, is exactly the point of the design. 👍
Only thing that comes close to amount of power produced in smallest packaging would be the Veyrons W12, or the 787B rotary.
@@PiDsPagePrototypes The Ford Cosworth DFV V-8 was more compact, lighter, and more powerful in 1967 when it made it's debut at the Dutch Grand Prix. Plus it didn't have the oil leak issues that the H-16 had.
Just saw this, a few years after the fact 😊 what an awesome thing! Some of your best work 👍
I remember this running at Silverstone in the 80's. A sound like no other. . .
In 1969 I visited my uncle. He took me to a factory outside Enfield, where i sat in a 4 wheeled cigar. He worked as a machinist/engineer for Toleman
Sweet exhaust artwork ... raw and so lovely ...
Fantastic sound from a fantastic engine.
Very cool. Thanks! The H16 scored a single GP win: Watkins Glen 1966 - Jim Clark/Lotus 43.
I saw Jochen Rindt win his first GP, at the Glen 1969. Piers Courage second, John Surtees third (his last podium). Very long time ago, and not just chronologically...
Great that these old bits of kit are kept alive and used, rather that sitting in a museum gathering dust!. Good on their 'caretakers'. Nuff said
Great video! You should do a "classics warming up compilation"
Excellent! It brings back many memories from the good old days of F1. Cheers.
Certainly not the most successful design, but BRM has to be given credit for making the attempt. What a magnificent sound!
Jack Brabham, who designed and built the BRM, is a 14 time Grand Prix winner. What do you consider is a good attempt?
@@kenchristie9214 ...umm...Jack Brabham had no connection with BRM (British Racing Motors) which was run by Sir Alfred Owen. Tony Rudd designed the H-16. My point is that what looks like a great idea on paper may not translate well into a great engine.
i love it. doesnt scream just sounds deep.
A 'mellow bellow', as Murray used to say.
Man, changing the engine must have been a suuuuuuuck-FEST! "Hmmmm...small leak in bank #4. All right, lads - put her on these milk crates and off you go. Pip, pip."
Another high quality video, thanks Bozzy!
Brought tears to my eyes . . .. thank y’all. 😍
Now that's an engine sound! And what do we now? V6 Dyson vacuum cleaners. :(
@CedrickTheBro comparatively speaking, they sound awful. A street legal stock GTR NISMO is a fantastic sounding turbo V6, the modern F1's have no excuse for sounding that awful
Doesn't sound bad it's just that they muffle the sound of the cars in the
TV telecast
@CedrickTheBro I heard them in person, they're just not as good as the v8's and v10's and v12's and v16's and h16's and literally ANY other engine configuration
@@chandansoren8002 actually it's just the opposite they have the
"Audio Up " feature on at times during the TV telecast to make the cars sound louder to viewers
@@THESLlCK Yes!!! If F1 cared about fans and fan-reaction... The Lancia Ferrari Dino V6 mid-70's sounds great! Copy that sound for f1 if you must have v6's
Vroooooooooom motor! That was one of my gringo toys, a yellow one around 1964. Pedro Rodríguez won with a BRM. Heavy machines, heavy metal!
We have lost so much in F1. This is a gem. The people who designed, maintained and drove them had passion. Not like today where the only passion is for the money sponsors pay them
Yep. Tempered by the knowledge that the men who drove them had an alarming tendency to die in them with an unnerving regularity. Whereas today, the drivers tend to retire with fat wallets and live to a ripe old age (or will do in time). F1 is still a young mans game, more so now than back in this cars hey day.
The BRM was designed and built by Australian Jack Brabham who drove the car to win 14 Grand Prix.
@@kenchristie9214 - you what? BRM is British Racing Machines. It had absolutely nothing to do with Black Jack Brabham - the man behind the Repco-Brabham formula one team.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRM_P83
Brabham - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham
@@lunsmann My extreme bad. As a youngster in the 60's I was told BRM was Brabham's team.
Hell yeah, gone are the 50's. 60's and 70's . love the old sounds .
Beautiful , You made Me feel Better today Listening to the (Sounds of My Youth) Thank You! - Jimmy -
That's one heck of a footage of the legendary H16!!!
Grazie mille Bozzy!! :D
I like how the rollover protection bar is literally a coathanger. 1:32
those cars have such a low mean look to them, ive always like that era.
Love this! Somehow it seems like a real and relatable car as opposed to these modern f1s which feel like these weird alien abominations.
Dude touching the tail pipes, “yup that’s fire”
I never knew any other motor than the RR Merlin could give someone chills like that
Klasse! Der Sound ist kaum zu schlagen.
This is a car, I can relate to. Not some ultra-aero gas/electric hybrid which is essentially undriveable except by highly specialized men.
Sounds awesome. I'd like to shake the hand of the man who designed the oiling system
Not only the best sounds ever, but from a time when the drivers needed extra cockpit room to carry their nethers…
The old f1 cars are just beautiful
BRM made the coolest stuff ever and now we have the V6 F1 cars
Yay.
RIP
Current V6 is too cool for you maybe
@@roku_nine it's cool because it's been dead since its introduction. They absolutely suck and an NA v10 would be faster
@@THESLlCK if only you could understand the innovation & technology behind them
@@THESLlCK - rubbish. These modern V6 TURBO engines drive the cars way faster than the atmo V10's can. Especially true at the high altitude tracks like Mexico. Don't forget the first turbo era had 4 cylinder cars blowing away the atmo v8 and V12 cars every damn race. The modern turbos are vastly more refined, powerful and reliable.
Nothing against a modern F1 but that's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen
Especially the BRM's iconic Forest Green colour.
The “air filters” will keep birds and small animals out….
It's only supposed to last the race
Lovely, BRM are making a new homage version of the car and engine I do believe.
I still to this day have the R&T issue featuring the BRM H16. One of my favorite cars
Cant believe how far they've come!!!!
I was a one year old when this car was racing!!
Clean, lean, and mean; no high tech ground effects, spoilers, or air scoops. Just an engine, a cockpit, and four wide tires.
Fascinating. So complicated. Lots of power...but lots of weight. Very difficult to maintain. Not really surprising that this engine did not overshadow everything else - as it's designer thought it would.
Still - kudos for creativity and the willingness to take such a risk.
What an amazing piece of history. Despite having had a lifelong interest in cars this is the first time I came across the H16.
Piece of art!
Analog perfection.
My brother was born in 1966, and is named after this car, named after BRM specifically. Dad proudly made sure my brother's initials were BRM.
Back in the day when F1 cars were basically rolling firebombs waiting to happen. An exciting, but quite deadly era in motorsports.
As any open class should be! F1 stopped being F1 the day the started implementing rules to slow the cars down. Its an open class FFS! If someone wants to strap rockets to the car let him! If you don't want to compete with that then don;t race in the open class!
Great video , You watch this and listen to that power plant and sadly realise modern cars are taking a step backwards
Basically a go kart with two v8’s strapped to the back of it...love it
That engine is a masterpiece. The car is also a masterpiece. 2 masterpieces mated. Wow.
Can you imagine trailing that thing in 1966 and thinking "That bloke's got two engines."
Yeah 😳 ! 😂👍
For me so nice to see the engine and mechanical parts, so much taken away these days, sounds amazing.
This might be the first time I've ever heard the H16 properly. Thanks for finding one!
BRM V16 sounds incredible too :) ruclips.net/video/rRNoRlLlsD8/видео.html
We need to hear a Napier Sabre engine. There are not even any recordings of that 24 cylinder beast.
I’m so happy I was into f-1 during the NA V10 years.
It's a small thing, but it's lovely to see Marlboro logos on race suits again.
The good old days.
Totally bonkers!! Love it. 👍👍👍
A timeless beauty 👍
the beauty of uppy downy ,uppy downy turning into roundy roundy and then into a diff to make forward.. .With that sound is just perfect machinery and design .. Love it
Man I love the “cigar car” era !
I love the drip pans. Reminds me of old HDs and radial engined aircraft that I work on. The radials need plastic swimming pools!
Awesome video, and rare because there are very few audio and visual sources for this engine. It's a shame that there may never be a good audio source for it at full tilt like there is for the BRM V16 F1 engine. Seems that they take it very gingerly every time the H16 comes out to play. Thanks!
So frustrating. The driver should give it the beans so we can hear is wail.
@@andrewfarrow4699 do you know anything about this engine?
@@RukaGoldheart no more than the next guy. it wasn't very competitive but it sounded awesome back when they were using them and not so concerned about blowing up a work of art.
Cars were more beautiful back then. They had a simple, elegant, and purposeful look about them. Beautiful car and a symphony producing motor.
A proper racing car.
No silly wings!
Why d'you think wings on racing cars are silly? They aid in the control of the car at high speed, allowing for faster speeds and, in turn, faster racing. Plus those old cars barely had any mechanical grip, let alone aero! They're cool but essentially coffins with wheels.
Genuinely asking by the way, don't mean to come off as rude :)
How could Anyone not Love THIS BRM. Let Today's F1's Return to Watkins Glen , so that Thunder can Rattle and Shake the Grapes from the Vine. Beautiful! Thanks Jimmy 5:13 EST.
Hearing old audio of this car in action really gives me goosebumps. It sounds like a mid to late 90s NASCAR stock car almost. Like what Sterling Marlin's team used for the exhaust back then. Dr. Gas exhaust.
Most old audio is actually of the V16 from the type 15 car. Audio of the BRM is extremely hard to come by. There's a literal handful of videos on youtube with actual audio of the H16 and none in anger
Nice video and audio, thank you. And some nice glimpses of a Ferrari 312B in the background too.
Sounds like pure anger. Awesome!
That sound is just so perfect.......
- How many cylinders do you want?
- Yes
If I could have just one (motoring) wish in my life it would be to drive this car!!! Loved it the day it came out even though it was pretty ordinary but honestly it is the best looking and sounding car ever!
Nice. Imagine this beast with some modern EFI and CPU controlling the show.
What a piece of art man.