V12 Panzer engine probably from a Tiger 2

M5Rick · 01-11-2022, 11:15 AM

These ran on petrol not diesel.

M5Rick · 10-22-2022, 10:11 AM

Here's another one on a small buggy in Germany.

440i6MT · 10-22-2022, 04:52 PM

So is that motor near eighty years old? Sounds very nice

How come it was petrol instead of diesel?

GuidoK · 10-22-2022, 06:53 PM

Interesting that they are air cooled by the looks of it.

M5Rick · 10-23-2022, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by 440i6MT

So is that motor near eighty years old? Sounds very nice

How come it was petrol instead of diesel?

It is. On the battlefield for instance in the Ardennes conflict when re-fuelling often in a hurry, spilling oily diesel around would cause a skating rink and slow tank crews and re fuellers down making a slippery mess, petrol being cleaner and causing much less smoke from exhaust giving positions away was preferred.

Chappers 71 · 10-23-2022, 12:51 PM

Pretty sure that's a Panther engine, misspent youth building model tanks, planes & ships

NYG · 10-26-2022, 09:12 AM

As ferocious as German tanks were in WW2, these things were so unreliable especially compared to M4 Shermans and the T-34 (which also had some reliability issues at first).

There's so many accounts of P-47s lighting up abandoned German tanks because they just didn't work.

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