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I'm going to leave the engine up right. Ive a steeple engine made for a car in a steam automobile magazine. The engine was two steeple engines side by side and it made 62.5 horsepower. I want the engine tall because anything goes in a rat rod, and a tall engine like this in the steampunk rat rod...

Hello everyone. Since my last post, Ive had some developmental changes in the steam car. One being my going full rat rod/steampunk. This brings me to my next question: Does anyone know where to find plans for a steeple compound steam engine? If not, how would I design one using existing plans...

Question, I found an early proposed engine idea I had for the car I did a while back. My question is would a tandem compound steam engine work in a steam car?

So I just read about the Pritchard steam car and found something interesting. The car had a v twin double acting uniflow engine that had a maximum rpm of 4000. Can anyone explain this?

I apologize everyone, Im getting all over the place in thought and planning. I just want a even balance of steam expansion in the cylinder, engine balance, rpm and efficiency.

My main idea was to build a high rpm, fast acting, self starting steam engine with good primary and secondary balance and variable cutoff for efficiency.

So a inline six, with all the being 2" and the stroke 4 1/2" with a 5% percent cut off will work? To try and boost the efficiency some keep temps around 500 degrees F and the pressure high, 1000 to 2500 psi? And I will still have the power needed to achieve my goal. I am also running a condenser...

Better yet, what engine you think will find in this?

I was also looking at Jay Carter's bash valve steam engine with the 5% cut off. Supposedly, it is hailed as one of the most efficient steam engines ever.

I also have to take into account engine balance so the engine will not shake its self apart.

In that case, would a 2 inch bore, 4.5 inch stroke, single acting, inline 6 steam engine work? I will have the benefit of high rpm, balance, and cut off for steam expansion the cylinder. I've been up all night thinking about this single acting I6. As far as steam generator space is concerned, I...

That was one of my concerns about a regular triple expansion engine, the rocking couple at higher rpm. I would hate to build this engine, use it, then find out the engine shook its self apart. The only way to offset that would be to use counterbalancing shafts; which would add more complexity...

So, its safe to say don't try to mate two triple expansion engines together and put it into a car?

Hello everyone, My name is James Jones and I am trying to build a steam car. For the past year, I have been researching and reading about steam engines, boilers and other systems. In my quest to build my car, I have read about the Doble, White, Stanley, Baker and various other steam cars (and...