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Re: BRM disasters, NAC



At 8:34 AM 10/30/01, MCosgrove@domain.elided wrote:
>Went looking at my old R&T's last night.  As was stated yesterday, the BRM
>H-16 was a normally aspirated 3 liter (they did that to avoid the
>complication of a supercharged 1.5 liter, how's that for logic), and their
>equally ill conceived engine for the 1947-1953 period was a blown V-16.
>
>What Michael may have been remembering when he wrote his first post ,
>however, was the even more ill-conceived Coventry Climax flat 16 developed
>in 1965, last year of the 1.5 liter formula.  Never got much more than
>200-210 horsepower and never did a thing on a track.
>
>Mike

Thanks, Mike. I didn't think I was in TOTAL brain fade remembering a 1.5
liter H -16 !!

Greg

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