Buy this and you will have the fastest Hudson powered car in the world!

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I wonder if a Twin-H set up will work on this....



http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/pts/197065720.html

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nhp1127 wrote:

I wonder if a Twin-H set up will work on this....



http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/pts/197065720.html

Probably needs quadrupal Twin-H set ups?

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I may build a chopper around this engine. Been looking for an engine with some decent bottom end torque. :eek:

hudsontech

Well, number 1, it was never used in a PT boat - way to big. PT boats used Packard V-12's - 3 of 'em; number 2 it's way do damn big to put in anything short of a very large truck.

And by the way, there was another of these beasts, the Defender (see below), not generally known, that was up around 1200 cubes. I recall hearing that a couple of those wound up in trucks used for plowing out Donner Pass during the winter months, but that may be conjecture and actually may have been the land version of the Invader engine that Hall-Scott introduced around 1940.



Originally the engine was developed and built by Hall-Scott. It was introduced in 1931. With an overhead camshaft, aluminum pistons, hemispherical combustion chamber, chrome nickel iron block and head, twin ignition, and 7 main bearings, most versions produced 250-275 h.p. One marine magazine from 1931 described the 997.8 cu. in. Invader as "light in weight . . . due to its extremely compact and neat design and is study and strong." In 1937, Hall-Scott began work on the 12-cylinder Defender, which was based on the Invader. In 1940, it released an Invader-based land engine, versions of which were produced into the 1960s.



During WW II, Hall-Scott zeroed in on wartime customers, as did other American engine makers. Hall-Scott handed over its Invader production to Hudson (which made about 4,000 Invaders).



Hudsonly,

Alex B