Mercedes Benz DB 605 Aircraft Engine Part 2 "IT'S ALIVE!!"

Mercedes Benz DB 605 A1 Aircraft Engine Part 2.
This engine was made at the Mercedes Benz factory in Berlin in 1942. Later that year it was shot down by a Spitfire in Belgium. Displacement: 35.7 litres, 1 gallon of petrol per minute, 1475 horse power, 4 valves per cylinder, fuel injection, supercharger, all aluminium and magnesium construction. 1 horse power per pound weight.
Sports cars didn't make these advancements in their engines until the 1980s!!
This engine is 99% original and is the only operating one in the world with the same parts as the day it was shot down. It is important to preserve this engine as we won the war.
This engine is available for hire for functions or film/TV companies which helps with its continued restoration.
I can be contacted at [e-mail]
Live Action Video Credits: ‪@PaddyPatrone‬

[@pimpompoom93726]

Valve train uses roller lifters, like the Allison engine. The Merlin used friction pads on the lifters.

[@jackadams1253]

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[@tsegulin]

Excellent work! What an achievement. I was at the Battle of Britain Airshow last month and the only thing that might perhaps have been missing was the real DB-601 engine sound. The Rolls Royce Merlin reigned supreme, even in the Bf-109s (Hispano Ha-112)! When these engines were originally made during the war, Germany was unable to obtain many of the strategic ores they needed to build the high temperature alloys required for such a high performance engine. For example although they knew how to make them, they were unable to make nitrided exhaust valves or bearings from more optimal metals. This put them at a significant disadvantage compared to the Allied inline aero engines which were built from metals accessed from the entire British Empire and the USA. I'm wondering if your are you restoring this engine with the original but less than ideal components, like chromium plated exhaust valves (and anticipating frequent overhauls) or are you substituting original components with newer ones made from more optimal alloys? I guess this goes to the very heart of what an authentic restoration actually is. Nevertheless - well done, especially if you can get it into the air!

[@jamesbrownkerr4214]

Thanks you for your very knowledgeable comments the engine parts are all original world war 2 production we feel it is more important to be completely original although not air worthy then to use high performance modern metals.

[@tsegulin]

@@jamesbrownkerr4214 It's quite remarkable how Daimler-Benz, Jumo and BMW produced such cutting edge engines despite lacking metals needed for high temperature alloys and the ongoing problems with high octane equivalent fuel like C2. Had Germany's aerospace and power plant engineers been in charge of the war they might well have won. More likely they would have been smart enough to avoid it entirely. Much of what I knew about these engines since I was a kid was revised and vastly corrected by Calum Douglas' book 'The Secret Horsepower Race' 2nd Ed., 2020. Since you are restoring these historic engines, I imagine you already know it. Thank you fr your efforts. History is important for people to know and understand how we got here from the past, including military aviation history. Putin and Trump/MAGA are salutary examples of what can happen happen when people don't know enough history to recognize what's happening in the present. Great work. Thanks again!

[@brealistic3542]

I hope you are oiling that engine because even running it slow without oiling it will case a lot of wear on the bearing surfaces and cylinders and gears. I see no oil being used. 😣

[@HubertBrownKerr-ic9xn]

Every part of the engine is lubricated with the correct oil for this engine.

[@brealistic3542]

@@HubertBrownKerr-ic9xn thanks god and thank you for doing it

[@FlightEngineering1]

Awesome, well done!

[@jamesbrownkerr4214]

Thanks😊

[@PaddyPatrone]

Nice! When can we see it running? 🙃

[@jamesbrownkerr4214]

Soon 🥹

[@mbmann3892]

Sweet. Keep them comimg

[@jamesbrownkerr4214]

Thank you, your very kind

[@flypawels]

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