We Found the Lost 40kg, 400bhp Nissan Engine! (It's INCREDIBLE)

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Mike Fernie goes full journalist and tracks down Nissan’s insane 40kg, 400bhp engine. Situated at racecar builders RML, Mike gets up close and personal to the tiny engine block, interviewing the RML engineers about how they developed the 3-cylinder turbo engine.
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@Drivetribe 7 часов назад

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@TommyMcDermott 5 часов назад

Bmw i8

@Oxy_Cotton 4 часа назад

Oliver!

@DinhHung2411 4 часа назад

toyota yaris

@HariSupriono 2 часа назад

Miata

@7spower998 Час назад

Thanks, Mike. Great video. 13:18 V5? You meant VR5. The only true V5 ICE is the Honda 75.5° V5 RC211V MotoGP racing engine 😉

@CephDigital 21 час назад

Honestly if Nissan made a road version, they could make something to compete with the GR Yaris / Corolla. Imagine a Micra with this engine and AWD! It'd be awesome.

@LeHazy 18 часов назад

Literally the entire video I was like "I want this in my K11"

@ChristianStout 15 часов назад

That engine alone would cost over twice as much as a GR Yaris. These kinds of performance numbers are only possible from race engines because only race teams can afford them.

@AbrahamArthemius 15 часов назад

@@ChristianStoutI mean the G16E-GTS is a race engine as well if you think about it since it was designed & homologated with Rally2 regulation in mind, but the difference is you can technically bought that engine alone as a crate engine. Hence why the GR Yaris Rally2 is awesome in my eyes since it pretty much kept the engine & turbo from the road car and slightly up-boosted it to make 300hp.

@Eis_ 11 часов назад

@@ChristianStoutThe cost could be brought down if it was made in assembly lines. The question would be is "by how much?" and that's what I'm interested in.

@markj6049 9 часов назад

An engine like this would never go into a road car - it's not made to run thousands of miles like you would expect from your road car engine

@RogerBergqvist 23 часа назад

That engine in a Ford Fiesta and we have something super fun..

@1320crusier 22 часа назад

Miata.

@carlrogers3505 22 часа назад

This is why the Abarth 500s exist. Cant get to 400hp with the American model. Yet. But the Euro T-Jets can. Here in the USA. 400 ft lbs of torque is about it. But thats gonna cost much more than the cars are worth.

@Brebgon 22 часа назад

@@1320crusier Every single time

@danielholland3991 22 часа назад

Corsa B

@heilraichu4037 22 часа назад

Suzuki Cappuccino*

@Xeddyhime 22 часа назад

The look of pure joy on Mike's face, holding that crank at about 11:35, yeah they definitely found the right person for this job!

@goosegog 18 часов назад

2:53 It's almost as if the "top pulley" needs to be twice the size of the crank pulley 😆

@RENO_K 8 часов назад

😂😂😂😂😂 yea

@BrinToo 3 часа назад

That’s shocking!

@Yukino-014 21 час назад

1:31 I know this isn't the main topic of the video, but the Juke-R is a heck of a rarity. 5 examples were produced, and Nissan has kept 2 of them, meaning that there are only 3 of these to be found around the globe. And yeah, it's literally a Juke with a sportier bodykit, wings and the GT-R's V6 engine chucked in it. RML also contributed to its development.

@Yvolve 19 часов назад

Which is probably why RML has one. Does it have the AWD system as well or just the engine?

@jober112 18 часов назад

@@Yvolve It had the AWD system from the GTR also. It was a beast!

@jober112 18 часов назад

I paused at 1:29 and had a divine moment looking at that number plate.🙏

@hexgraphica 17 часов назад

It's not just that, it's a GT-R underneath with a Juke shell on it. Shorter propeller shaft and other work to make it fit

@Cyberdyne-kg8ku 17 часов назад

All Jukes should be a rarity. Horrible things

@zepic9093 22 часа назад

Now we need this to also be installed in a MX5

@JohnKhalil 22 часа назад

Probably someone has done it on RU-vid

@ThePastaManCan 21 час назад

Yeah if it exists someone's already put it in an mx5

@neilperry2224 14 часов назад

Just like the V10, that was supposed to go into a previous Mazda MX5, which never materialised by Mike and DRIVETRIBE.

@Jacobtheunwise 12 часов назад

Would get zero traction it's to light

@SecwetGwiwer 5 часов назад

Surely a GR86 would be more appropriate?

@JamesField 20 часов назад

The unicorn engine I want someone to find (although I think it sadly no longer exists) is the 4.2 litre V10 Cosworth made for Volvo - and which Volvo heat-soak tested by fitting to a couple of 850 mule cars and driving them in Gothenburg rush hour traffic. Who wouldn't want a go in an 850 with a 4.2 litre V10?

@CaptainHoratioPugwash 14 часов назад

I'm sorry, did you say Volvo 850 V10??? I've never heard of that project before.

@wobblysauce 12 часов назад

@@CaptainHoratioPugwash That is the idea of a Mule... just a body they had around with minimal custom work to install test parts.

@JamesField 6 часов назад

@@CaptainHoratioPugwash yeah, as @wobblysauce said, they just used the 850 to do some testing, hence mule cars. There's conflicting info out there, but it seems like they wanted a special engine for the forthcoming S80 big saloon. They were also testing some other variants, including an estate version of the S80 and even very early prototypes of a lifted AWD estate/SUV. All except the S80 would later be dropped, including the big engine, and we would later only get the smaller estate based on the S60. The Yamaha V8 came too late for the original S80, but did end up in the P2 platform it spawned in the form of the XC90. It would also see service in the later P3 S80, whose platform would be used by parent company Ford for many of their global models, including the US version of the Mondeo, which was fitted with Ford's own V8 instead of the Yamaha.

@Lindeman08 20 часов назад

Lots of people in the comments talking about putting it into a bike or making a sleeper car. Being optimized for racing I think this engine deserves something more like an Ariel Atom chassis.

@arnavsrinivasan2706 23 часа назад

Imagine swapping it into s bike💀💀💀

@Filipe_2004 22 часа назад

That would be juuuuust amaziiing 😱😱😱😱😱😱

@CS-pl8fc 21 час назад

You can just throw a turbo on a busa and get 300hp very easily

@BurnedNerd 20 часов назад

@@CS-pl8fc yes true... but that setup would closely weigh 300kg... this setup probably tops out at 150kg I guess... with 100hp more

@lightman489 20 часов назад

It would be wild

@eiccaw 20 часов назад

@@BurnedNerd turbobusa engine pack would be still lighter because there is gearbox integrated in it. Also you can take easy 500hp of that.

@goldeneagle1788 22 часа назад

Get that engine into the next Smallet Cog Racing car. Back on the track where it belongs.

@hexgraphica 17 часов назад

And out of the race already from tech inspection

@FoCoPuffs 16 часов назад

@@hexgraphica Depends on the series?

@-Lucky-Six- 14 часов назад

awesome video, i love little 3 cylinder engines, the fact theres road legal GR Yaris with 800hp just bends my mind

@County22 17 часов назад

I was at LeMans in 2014. It was a cool thing to see on track. Their plan was to run a normal stint on the engine near to LMP2 pace and then do a lap on electric only at GT pace. But it had loads of issues all week and didn’t do many laps. The full electric lap they managed was in morning warmup and I’m not sure if it was actually on regen or if they simply charged it in the garage. In the race to the gearbox failed after a very small number of laps and that was it.

@rockets4kids 13 часов назад

Now that we know how light everything was built the failures are much less surprising.

@13coyote13 20 часов назад

Mike that's the cam pulley at the top, the cam runs at half the speed of the crank therefore it will be twice the size of the pulley on the crank to run at 50% of the rotational speed of the crankshaft.

@wrench8677 19 часов назад

Also the crank pulley doesn’t have a harmonic damper which would be similar size to the cam pulley

@AndyHack10 16 часов назад

Drivetribe always manages to create videos on awesome topics, meets many interesting people and somehow even gets inside some of the most interesting facilities. But the best part is, that despite all of that they always manage to only scratch the surface and provide us with actually very little information, then they compress everything into 10-15 minutes which includes 2 minutes of adverts. Great job!

@annakissed3226 14 часов назад

This is what makes RU-vid Journalism - Game Changing. This is what makes the suivalence society so powerful. Because we care, our eyes help you get advertising & support that means that you can effect companies to acknowledge the great work they have done. And now the world knows off this engine, people across the planet will ask for it to be built into specialist tools. Their is nothing wrong with ICE engines as long as we have ways to mitigate their effects. In a future where we mostly run EV's we can afford to run artisal pieces of ICE such as this. This is a thing of utter beauty and I am sure if you ask any real EV Motorhead they would agree!

@lloyd9819 22 часа назад

I'd love to see a v6 version of that engine.

@MostlyPennyCat 17 часов назад

VR6!

@Roddy_Zeh 16 часов назад

I6, that perfect balance and pushing 800 hp. Yep. 👌🏻🗿

@petert3355 7 часов назад

Boxer configuration to go in a wrx....

@jondonnelly3 7 часов назад

see F1

@benvigars1349 22 часа назад

Would love to see you guys have a look round the other projects at RML. Looks like an amazing place!

@SeanPwnery 18 часов назад

So.. the big question I bet most are asking is ... why can't this be made into a production engine? They really broke a lot of engineering tradition, but is the unit and materials cost astronomical? Could you imagine that setup in a Cooper Classic, or an original Cinquecento? Steve Morris engines is working on a 3-cylinder side-by-side engine that's supposedly going to make north of 1,000 hp - but his project could never go mass production, or be cost effective for the masses either.

@TonySims888 17 часов назад

As the engineer said, this engine is optimized for a purpose. It probably makes 400bhp at 15,000 rpm and peak torque is likely quite low in relation to the bhp. It's built to be a component of a complex hybrid drivetrain, without the electric motors it's a duck out of water. I'd bet the cost of building this engine was a number with 7 or more digits to the left of the decimal. Demand for a production version would be tiny, given it will appeal to a literal handful of people and even fewer will have the dosh to actually buy one even if a production version was priced to achieve break even for a limited run. RML doesn't do production, and Nissan is struggling to retool and keep the lights on right now (Renault hasn't hammered all the nails in the coffin, but they've working hard at it...)

@AbrahamArthemius 14 часов назад

Because it was designed for racing first & foremost. As cool as it is, it's not economically viable turning a race engine to be used for road use. I mean the G16E-GTS inside the GR Yaris is the literal closest thing to the Diglett. 304hp stock from 1.6L 3cyl Turbo, used in competition for GR Yaris Rally2, and if you're doing it right can be tuned to 400-600hp.

@SeanPwnery 14 часов назад

@@AbrahamArthemius Yeah, so were Dunlop Disc brakes and overhead cam engines in the 1960's which became commonplace today. The long and short of it is this - Nissan and RML did it for a specific purpose but didn't consider the bigger picture. I guess the Steve Morris version will have to be what the masses can opt in for at a premium option cost. 🤦‍♂

@AbrahamArthemius 13 часов назад

@@SeanPwnery i mean to be fair, Nissan always seems to be in their kind of inside turmoil especially leadership since the 00s to now so that's probably one of the reason for it. They really don't have that one guy who actually has the vision AND passion to really bring motorsport elements to the masses like Toyota had with Akio Toyoda/Morizo. Their e-Power system for example (think a train's diesel-electric system but for a car) is actually pretty great, they can tinker with it and build a genuinely unique hot hatch product in the market with it, but they won't ever do it.

@jurandspychow3766 9 часов назад

@@TonySims888the nissan engine revs to around 7 500 or 8000 rpm, ot 15000

@TheLondondriver 22 часа назад

Fit this to your Mx5

@jokeassasin7733 21 час назад

That could’ve made a Caterham even more bonkers.

@sythenalpha2037 17 часов назад

honestly as a budget (for a proper race team) race car engine it would work well every category from single seaters to rally cars and anything in between (city car touring vehicles) reduce the power output accordingly and it would work well and if it needs rebuilding it requires less rods pistons bearings rings everything (almost)

@Roddy_Zeh 16 часов назад

Exactly my thoughts.

@evilutionltd 16 часов назад

until it needs a full rebuild after every 1000 miles.

@rockets4kids 13 часов назад

That's exactly what I was thinking.

@notsponsored103 8 часов назад

Great presentation! The Headless Block is a cool idea for a boosted engine but you still have to keep the crank in the mains and if you can push them apart you'll lose oil pressure in the big end. Everything has its pros and cons.

@garchompy_1561 17 часов назад

I think you should do some sort of vid on steam engines as a whole. either trains, tractors, trucks, or cars, doesnt really matter, but in the era we are seeing more and more electric cars bring more and more impressive torque figures to the table, it would be fun to see them compared to one of the oldest engines and, at least to some extent, still the kings of torque that will beat any electric vehicle on the road today. the powers of *external* combustion...

@TheCluelessEnthusiast 22 часа назад

I would love to see that engine in a 1980s honda city or a fiat 500

@MostlyPennyCat 17 часов назад

A mini.

@darkmugetsu6572 17 часов назад

I own a 1991 Honda Beat :)

@TheCluelessEnthusiast 13 часов назад

@@darkmugetsu6572 would be an awesome engine for your honda beat

@BMRace 21 час назад

This looks great. I love the 3 cylinder in my GR Yaris. Awesome engine.

@johnpbh 22 часа назад

What a brilliant follow up..!

@somedohavethem Час назад

Awesome! Thankyou RML ❤

@zwonk741 18 часов назад

this will definitely fit in my miata

@KarlScaleModeling 3 часа назад

Very interesting, both the engine and the cars stored at RML. Thanks for sharing with us all.

@brianmessenger 4 часа назад

An amazing piece of engineering, but I wonder what the durability would have been like, especially under race conditions

@fivelights 7 часов назад

v16 Rolls next?

@jean-charlesweyland129 4 часа назад

Rowan Atkinson is the man to ask about it. If he convinced BMW/RR once, he can maybe do it twice.

@GhostOfLorelei 10 часов назад

Gonna make this Engine Tribe at this rate and I'm totally here for it.

@paullees5705 5 часов назад

What an interesting lightweight little engine. It reminds me of a small version of the Koenigsegg TFG engine. While the TFG is 500cc bigger, it is also 30kg heavier than this engine. But the TFG engine makes 600hp and 601nm of torque from 3 cylinders. But having said all that, the TFG is also an engine built for a road car.

@DontKnowHowToTypeIn2 17 часов назад

it would've been such a baller move to sell a slightly detuned engine to racing teams. EVERYONE talked about this engine when it came out, and nissan then decided to do absolutely anything with it and never even elaborated. 😂 sometimes i really do wonder how some companies even stay in business, if this is how they do things generally...

@RaisinBarXZ550 9 часов назад

I remember hearing about this this thing when it was new, and younger me thought it was for a future Nismo Altima or something fun and affordable as i believe the article suggested. Glad to see it in reality

@JanusTheOld 20 часов назад

i hoped this engine would be produced, glad you found it, there is still hope :)

@jeffkeen6943 8 часов назад

RML is such an interesting company...if only we could see what is hidden behind those walls... Thanks for the glimpse...

@brittenv1000 Час назад

We need more!!

@Zeddeck 21 час назад

If you guys want cool small engines, you should really get into motor bikes. Kawasaki's H2R has a supercharged 1.0L i4 that puts out over 300hp. Would be cool to hear from Team Green on the development of that engine.

@jlancaster7482 12 часов назад

I can remember first seeing the Delta Wing at Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta years ago. Very cool little car.

@upgrayedd251 18 часов назад

Best video in a very long time. So interesting!

@santieur52 22 часа назад

This is extraordinary levels of sick

@rainrainwebdesign 27 минут назад

loved this video - amazing engineering - really it's podcast material i could listen to that story for an hour

@HM44. 21 час назад

There is a hybrid mode, the engine and electric motors working together for total power combined 750 BHP!

@uksmudgesmith 22 часа назад

Nice to see some proper engineering content. Well done

@Kr8zyVids 7 часов назад

Love this content!! Always cool to see something new that’s old lol

@neilperry2224 15 часов назад

So is the evocation of the Ferrari 250GT SWB parked near door. Loving the roof rack attached to the roof.

@hiperformance71 3 часа назад

Lovely little engine!!

@megu2272 19 часов назад

I happen to know of a few Deltawings over here in the states that are missing some engines so have them send some over here!

@kurtwinter4422 20 часов назад

0:39 Bruce Wayne: Does it come in black?

@Steve.Cutler 22 часа назад

The very thing that gave it power is the thing to make it not work for very long, the turbo.

@anumeon 12 часов назад

Time to put it in a reliant Robin just for the lols.. Imagine rocking up next to a porsche at a trafficlight and doing a bit of a dragrace start.. :D

@upgrayedd251 17 часов назад

You didn't mention it at the end, but I'd love to see a piece on the dual engines out of Triumph's land speed record bike from the 2010s.

@jeracojay 2 часа назад

An engine with no head would change everything the amount of horsepower you could put in that thing would be incredible and the lack of maintenance needed It would be a super reliable engine with no head issues whatsoever as it wouldn't have one they should start designing cars like this

@chrisadkins6830 14 часов назад

It is cool to see very ancient tech, modernized and maximized to peak efficiency. Mono-block engins fell out of favor in the 1920s because they weighed too much, and cost too much. Now with proper engineering and manufacturing, it is the best in both

@travisswanson3449 22 часа назад

Great RX-8 swap!

@modelmania825 21 час назад

i need one of these for in my project car !!! , no electric nonsense though , pure petrol engine , 5 or 6 speed gearbox and rearwheel drive !!!!!!!

@davelawrence594 17 часов назад

Absolutely incredible amount of power from a three cylinder engine Absolutely awesome & bonkers!!!👌🏻👍🏻

@PistonAvatarGuy 6 часов назад

Since reading about an aircraft engine experiment from the late '90s (I read about it in the early 2000s), I've tried to think of ways to make a monoblock engine work for an aircraft engine, or for road car engines, so it's unfortunate that this project didn't lead to anything production worthy.

@pauliewalnuts240 18 часов назад

The most remarkable aspect of this engine is the weight...we already have 1.5l making 320hp, its certainly possible to make 400hp.

@SimonMitchell-f5u 20 часов назад

Would love some willams input on creating the 6r4 and then how it led to them developing the xj220 that would be amazing. As a kid I was lucky enough to go to Wales to a local rover dealer for the unveiling of the 6r4 and then on to its first rally. There was wynn percy and Tony pond there from memory malcolm wilson might of been there to. Wouldn't it be amazing to see how they created this normally aspirated gem when all around were turboing.

@ToraxReborn 22 часа назад

This needs to be built all the time.. this will solve the sports car industry

@bghoody5665 8 часов назад

I find it a bit funny that Drive Tribe makes a big deal of this engine in a previous video and RML is like "Oh, that thing? Yeah I think we got it sitting in a closet somewhere."

@screaminlead 22 часа назад

I cant wait for the episodes of you swapping this into a MX-5, only for it to stop and dissapear completely.

@kam_iko 21 час назад

5:52 not the other way around? the differential and the gearbox?

@County22 21 час назад

It was well known at the time that RML built the Zeod for Nissan.

@irritatedmushroom2 17 часов назад

Yeah I knew immediately that Mike was stretching with how much DT have genuinely uncovered here and how influential their last video was.

@ΘάνατοςΧορτοφάγος 22 часа назад

I love the Nissan experimental Le Mans racers 💯

@frankwong9486 21 час назад

Need mass production this thing !

@thegregdavieschannel 13 часов назад

It would make a great engine for a modern day 60's F1 car. I've been working on a design for a aj30 powered lotus 49ish replica that would weigh around 300kg.

@Krinthon Час назад

5:39 is it just me or a touch of Halloween creeping in early with the skull 💀 look alike

@MichaelOFarrell 17 часов назад

Look like Deutsch Autosoort connectors on there. Great connectors!!

@aarala 20 часов назад

I definitely want to see that Porsche Flat/Boxer 8.

@conormaguire690 18 часов назад

A consumer version of this in a micra would be great, or even better a 4 cylinder version in a pulsar to bring back the gtir

@XBullitt16X 18 часов назад

Why cant we have this is a cool little hot hatch, come ooooon Nissan.

@arturseversons3444 14 часов назад

I want to know more about the 9-liter V16 from the Johnny English Phantom, which made "unbelievable power and torque figures", according to Mr. Atkinson 🙂

@ingram33 3 часа назад

How about you look into the 9L v16 BMW engine they put in a rolls Royce........kinda relevant with the new v16 from bugatti

@FlipdoFilms 10 часов назад

RML are the same guys who produced and ran the iconic Nissan Primera supertourers.

@brentmeredith5295 8 часов назад

Drop that In a Datsun 1600 and have an absolute ball

@Hiluxtaco 16 часов назад

I would love to see this engine in a Go-Kart! 😮

@gmanneod8085 20 часов назад

Great video Mike. I would love to see the Porsche 4 cylinder F1 engine

@alancobbin 22 часа назад

MIND BLOWN! 👍

@kabongpope 17 часов назад

Bodge 4 of those together, V12, sorted!

@BillyNoMates1974 18 часов назад

I think my Sandero TCE 90 engine is smaller still. probably deeper (taller) and certainly weights more though. The battery under the bonnet looks bigger than the head of the engine. lol

@SaltyMcBoatFace 22 часа назад

this thing NEEDS to be a race boat engine , it would eliminate all competition

@59nesdnarFrangaR 15 часов назад

I want to see more on the VW W10, there is an M5 somewhere with one.

@dennismccarthy7032 8 часов назад

Epic content ❤

@adam346 14 часов назад

I'd like to see a V4 car engine... I am not big into cars so my knowledge is limited but I do know that in Moto GP most of those bikes run a V4 so the comparison would be interesting for me.

@Eis_ 11 часов назад

Flexispot can finally say "Our tables can lift a car engine (please forget the part that the engine weighed 40kg)".

@justaguy5791 18 часов назад

what i would love to see is the nissan prototype fwd r35 powered le man car they had a decade ago running in france it was in red and also had insane aero going on

@junkieshere 6 часов назад

Imagine having this design theory on a another engine billet to spec'ced (k-series, rb perhaps?). Those race engine could be made lighter and more durable (less head gasket sealant issue, etc). how much further do i wonder those engine can be pushed.