This is legit the cleanest starting and running tank engine i've ever seen. Starts with the speed of a modern engine and absolutely no smoke from the exhaust.
I hadn't seen this comment before posting my own : same thing, I was amazed by the smooth idle, instant throttle response. This guy whispers to carburetors 👌
This is a straight pipe in its current form, when mounted on a tank the exhaust is attached to a muffler, having it be this loud would be terrible for concealment.
We'll need to get our Panzer expert to verify that this engine was really in a tank, then we can talk about $83. You know, the market for tank engines' a little slow right now, it's a seasonal thing, so we're just gonna be holding it here, and I can't afford to pay big for a doorstop
Still a fantastic sight. The simplicity of the engine is awesome, the engineers created a masterpiece. A clean design with no complicated components hanging off it.
It's actually not that powerful by modern standards. Power is all that matters btw. The "torque" thing is a red herring and meaningless without rpm. A man can easily exceed the torque of a muscle car engine with a long enough pry bar. Doesn't mean he is developing power.
@@forestdenizen6497being powerful isn't everything, it's how to the core it's build...i saw a rusted and deserted zundapp started in couple of its first few kicks!! This sound, toughness of engine and stubbornness of engine can't be acquire now!! Here is the thing of pride not Power... Wish i could fit this antique in handcrafted body and be the pride on the road if eligible and allowed..
@@forestdenizen6497 Actually, it's horsepower that is meaningless without RPM, as you have none without RPM lol... Even a motor making massive torque will put out almost no horsepower at very low RPM, like 10 RPM for example... Even a 672ci is only gonna make maybe 50-60 horsepower. The reason old motors didn't make much horsepower is because they didn't spin very many RPMs and the reason torque was low was because cylinder pressure was low. They had high compression ratios (sometimes) but the rest of the engines were so archaic (albeit beautiful) that the compression barely compensated for all the flaws. Nowadays everything making serious torque is diesel and boosted. Point is: if you want a versatile powerband that can move mountains there really is no replacement for displacement.
That's so cool and it's a part of history that should be preserved and admired for the mechanical developments that occurred across the plant. Simply brilliant!!
The Continental AV1790 is an American V12 engine used in armored vehicles. Produced by Continental Motors, the AV1790 was used in a variety of limited production and pilot heavy tanks, including the M53 and M55 howitzers, and the T30 and M103 tanks.
@@cro_bro8457 I’m assuming it’s a Maybach HL230. The Sturmtiger, Jagdtiger, Tiger 2, and the panzer series all used these at one point or another. I think it’s highly unlikely an American tank built in the 40-60’s would carry the same engine, but don’t quote me on that
Old guys find out its easier to tune a v12 Panzer motor, than try to please a woman. But women are like good running Honda engines, they are easy to get started.
OSHA: Don't you need earplugs? Tankmotorguy: What? OSHA: Earplugs. You need to wear earplugs! Tankmotorguy: What? OSHA: You might damage your hearing. Tankmotorguy: What? Hold on, let me light my cigar, and spray some fuel into the intake with no safety glasses. OSHA:....
First thing I noticed was he had no earplugs. Lol Blue Collar workers have had so many classes and training on earplug saftey, it's now the first thing we notice in videos like this.
@@Bodhi594 I'm not a fan of OSHA, per se. But I'm also not a fan of being deaf lol. I guess watching millions of crappy videos with criminally bad acting is the price we pay for awareness. Funny thing is, when they sit us all down in a room for a sexual harassment video, all we do is sexually harass each other the entire 30 minutes. The rest of the year, we are usually on good behavior. But during that 30 minutes, they could technically fire every single one of us haha.
@@natep.8452 Or tinnitus and hyeperacusis due to hearing damage. I suffer from both and it is no joke. Some people commit suicide due to the noise and pain. People who make jokes about wearing earplugs or who look down on others for protecting their hearing will change their attitude in an instant if they can experience what I go through every day for just one hour.
Maybe in the US where Tanks have Gasengines :P Diesel doesn't make much flammable gas and isn't flammable "by touch" from a normal firesource. Accidentially burning Diesel is a talent, burning the nonexisting gases is Marvel.
@@c0mb4ti3nt3 thats not even the point hes making. any oil based fuels do not instantaneously ignite from coals. you require spark. when you see videos of gas stations exploding from cigarettes. its because cigarettes have a tendency to pop and crackle from the stems of tobacco leaves inside. which produce a very spark like ignition of the fumes.
@govnor: Retired Navy guy worked full service island at gas station in early 1980's in USA, and he always pumped the gas with a cigarette. R.I.P. Jerry (cancer).
To those commenting @ full force without knowing anything about the subject. This as US air cooled Continental. Most likely from a post war Patton tank. The Wehrmacht V12 tank engines were water cooled Maybachs. BTW: The brave gentleman with cigar (and ether?) is Dutch, as far as I know. Not German.
The problem with todays society is everything cool like this is so damn expensive nobody can afford it. Back in the good old days you could find something like this for next to nothing, hell he was probably given it free!! Go look up old tank engines on ebay, then compare the prices to the pokemon go app. I rest my case
It’s crazy to see one of these engines with no load bearing parts attached to it. Since it’s just sitting on a stand you can really get a sense for the amount of torque it puts out, by how fast it revs up.
Guy's, is just a massive tank engine. Calm down. Let history be history. You all arguing about a war, none of you was actually fighting in. Don't be such idiots like them (and I don't mean the soldiers, I mean the old men who started and "fought" the whole war)
@@ThatsMrMaxHeadroomToYou I thought just woman's get her period but now I know also English male get period😂 that the only bloody thing what England can do.
Chewing on a cigar and handling an big, old, loud hunk of metal like he grew up with. Much respect. Lot of germans are babbling of respect and don't want to earn it. He has.
For any one curious it's a Continental AV1790. It' s American put into American made tanks which may have been sold to West Germany during the cold war and renamed to panzer at that time.
I'm currently in 1943. This time machine a time traveller gave me has allowed me to see the engine I helped design running running so many decades later. Very nice!
Obviously not for their ideologies, but purely from a technological standpoint, Nazi Germany had some pretty cool toys. I'm always fascinated by the engine and vehicle ideas they came up with.
Imagine how terrifying it would be to hear that deep Rumble of an engine accompanied with the sight of a Panzer tank would be a truly scary thing to see and hear if you were a small group out on patrol or if you were a lone Sherman tank.
Also keep in mind incosed in tank body, sound isolated with proper muflers to silent the engine. But of course its a tank so nothing crazy. Also the engine have max power output at 2800rpm so the "idle" is basicly operation range. More souding like a tractor then a race car.
This is not a Panzer engine. That's a Continental (american manufacturer). Would appear to be a Continental Paton AVI 1790. Powered American tanks an armored vehicles during the Korean War era
Hugh Hadfield I believe they had air ducts that would suck in the air go right over the engine cooling fans and at the same time it would blow back to the rear of the tank.
That’s not from WW2. It’s a engine from a Patton tank ive worked on them the Germans used a V12 and it was water cooled and the carburetors were on top you are looking at a air cooled Continental note the side draft carbs. Jay Leno has a car with one in it This one is missing the fans on top to force air around the cylinders
I wouldn’t know the difference between that motor and a panzer motor side by side but I did notice that it did look like my continental ground power unit that I had on my airboat but on a much grander scale. Motor sounds bad ass.
*Technically speaking, V-12 engines really don't need a flywheel... that and the fact that this engine would have been coupled to a Allison automatic transmission in the original vehicle.*
Dont think a ww2 German tank engine would use an American transmission. Can't comment on whether it needs a flywheel for balancing but you wouldn't think so.
@Joe cook *This is an American tank engine, a Continental AV1790. V-12 engines have power strokes that overlap every 60° of crankshaft rotation... so no balance issues or need for a flywheel.*
Not a "Panzer" engine, it's a Continental AV 1790 first used in the M46, then the M47 and M48. Subsequently the engine was converted from gasoline to diesel fuel and then powered the M48A2 through the end of the M60 family of tanks. What is the singular easiest way to determine this is a Continental AV 1790? The exhaust manifolds reside within the V of the engine while the air induction is on the outside of each bank. Totally opposite of almost every other V engine design in the world.
Great catch! Yes, it is a AV1790 engine. Not sure if this is a gas or diesel version. I don't see anything related to an ignition system, but there was also no black smoke out the exhaust..sooo... no idea. I'm leaning toward diesel by the way it sounds. Jay Leno has a Gale Banks tuned, turbocharged, gas version in the Blastolene Special. According to the Banks website, the engine was detuned from 1600 HP, 3000 Torque (!) to make it more driveable.
