The video´s title says in italian that it´s an Hispano-Suiza engine built under SCAT - Torino´s license, it´s wrong, actually it´s the other way around: italians built their engine under license of Hispano, and they weren´t the only ones because that Hispano V8 was licensed and made by the thousands by other makers.
@@pimpompoom93726 Are the machinist drawings available? I have been wanting one of these engines and it looks like I wil never be able to buy one for the price I would like. That being said I started a welding/fabrication/foundry and machine shop specializing in pre-war racers mainly of the Brooklands ilk but we will work on any. I would love to cast a new block and make everything needed for an engine to place into a boat tail racer that I will be building on RUclips when I am finished a 1928 Morgan RIP GN Special build which I am starting soon. I hope you can help me my friend.
@@Biokemist-o3k I think you'd have a tough time manufacturing this particular engine, the crankcase is cast aluminum and so is the block-but the block has either cast iron or steel cylinder liners with the valve seats incorporated into the top of the liners. Liners were 'screwed' into the blocks and the crankshaft was machined out of a solid block of steel. Detailed drawings are probably available somewhere, but I have no idea how you would find them. The Hispano-Suiza V8 engine was a high performance, hi-RPM (for the times) engine, ideal for pursuit fighters at that time, but it was prone to coolant leaks because of the complex sealing design and required a lot of service in the field. You may want to investigate purchasing a US 'Liberty' V-12 engine from WW1, these were also used in boats and cars after the war ended. This design is much more manufacturing friendly and with your skill set you could probably keep it in good shape. I'm sure finding drawings for Liberty Engine components would be far easier, they built 10's of thousands of them during the War.
@@Bluenose352 very cool! I'd like to follow along with ypur progress as we will be overhaulung a 180 Hisso for an SE5a. Please feel free to email me at chrishill@knightsofthesky.org
The cylinder blocks and crankcase are aluminum castings, but the blocks had steel liners for the pistons. I'm not sure if they were cast in or inserted later in the process.
Are there any of them still running. I bet it sounds nice
The video´s title says in italian that it´s an Hispano-Suiza engine built under SCAT - Torino´s license, it´s wrong, actually it´s the other way around: italians built their engine under license of Hispano, and they weren´t the only ones because that Hispano V8 was licensed and made by the thousands by other makers.
They made thousands of them under license in the USA, Wright-Martin was the licensee who manufactured them.
@@pimpompoom93726 Are the machinist drawings available? I have been wanting one of these engines and it looks like I wil never be able to buy one for the price I would like. That being said I started a welding/fabrication/foundry and machine shop specializing in pre-war racers mainly of the Brooklands ilk but we will work on any. I would love to cast a new block and make everything needed for an engine to place into a boat tail racer that I will be building on RUclips when I am finished a 1928 Morgan RIP GN Special build which I am starting soon. I hope you can help me my friend.
@@Biokemist-o3k I think you'd have a tough time manufacturing this particular engine, the crankcase is cast aluminum and so is the block-but the block has either cast iron or steel cylinder liners with the valve seats incorporated into the top of the liners. Liners were 'screwed' into the blocks and the crankshaft was machined out of a solid block of steel. Detailed drawings are probably available somewhere, but I have no idea how you would find them. The Hispano-Suiza V8 engine was a high performance, hi-RPM (for the times) engine, ideal for pursuit fighters at that time, but it was prone to coolant leaks because of the complex sealing design and required a lot of service in the field. You may want to investigate purchasing a US 'Liberty' V-12 engine from WW1, these were also used in boats and cars after the war ended. This design is much more manufacturing friendly and with your skill set you could probably keep it in good shape. I'm sure finding drawings for Liberty Engine components would be far easier, they built 10's of thousands of them during the War.
Aside from the timing looking to be way off to my eye, this is a nice video on a cool machine.
I think it's thrown off visually because of excessive valve clearances.
There is excessive valve clearance but i'm pretty sure the cam timing is out. It's sucking in exhaust and blowing out the intake.🤔
Those connecting rods are very weird, they look so brittle.
The spad vii to the ww1 have this engine right?
Yes, one of many planes that used the Hispano-Suiza v8
@@Alvar2001 thanks for answer my question
awesome!
Is it possible to have this engine remanufactured again? For aircraft replicas?
Bluenose352 of course! All you need is $
@@knightsofthesky I think I found a manufacturer in NZ. Not sure yet.
@@Bluenose352 very cool! I'd like to follow along with ypur progress as we will be overhaulung a 180 Hisso for an SE5a. Please feel free to email me at chrishill@knightsofthesky.org
@@Bluenose352 the vintage aviator in NZ makes full reproductions of various ww1 aircraft engines
All aluminum?
The cylinder blocks and crankcase are aluminum castings, but the blocks had steel liners for the pistons. I'm not sure if they were cast in or inserted later in the process.
low comp engine....pistonrods looks weak...airplane engines are always intresting to watch. leaders of what will bee in the futur autos