Heading North. Sunrise in Belgium.
Across the Channel.
To Dover.
...and to Scotland (actually, I only needed to go to Carlisle, but took the chance to go over the border for the first time in 25 years).
Funny, coming the other way England doesn't welcome you.
Anyway, the engine was loaded, and I headed South.
...buying a few other things on the way.
Took a bit of unloading.
So, you probably want to know what it is?
It's a Bristol Hercules 14 cylinder, sleeve valve radial engine, as fitted to (amongst other aircraft) the magnificent Bristol Beaufighter.
Most Halifax's.
...and many Wellingtons.
Mine's a later one from a Vickers Varsity.
It's 38.7 litres, supercharged, carb fed, revs to 3000rpm-ish where it delivers 1950 BHP depending on altitude and temperature.
The VX is going to need some work to get it to fit. I'm not sure the F23 will be able to cope even if I could get drive from the centre of the engine to the gearbox. There's also the problem of the Hercules being aircooled - never easy in a mid engined car.
It weighs 1 tonne so I'll have to get the suspension recalibrated as I think that's a little more than the 20LET.
With that kind of torque it will need traction control, but getting 21st centuary electronics to talk to a 1940's carb isn't going to be easy.
Maybe fitting it would spoil the character of the VX?
What do you think?
Nutter 
