{"id":90,"date":"2009-09-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/71A827C3-6A02-4355-9C0A-EF2A24231DED"},"modified":"2012-07-16T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T14:43:01","slug":"538-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"538 = 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The origins of the Aurelia V6 motor lie in the 538. In the 1940\u2019s, De Virgilio drew up the design for this motor, and between 1946 and 1948, a prototype motor was made &#8211;\u00a0 one of first running V6 motors by Lancia. Its target vehicle was the Aprilia, then a current model. Italian law required that the steering column be straight, and the 538 motor was designed with a narrower 45 degree V, just to clear the body and steering column.<\/p>\n<p>A Torinese gentleman managed to obtain this motor and rebuilt it, installing it in an Aprilia. The installation is, as can be seen, done to lovely effect. A ride in the car confirmed many things, namely the car had massive torque, ran beautifully, and was a sheer delight. I encouraged (to little avail) the idea of building more \u201cspecials\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the engine pulled very well and was very smooth. No vibration to speak of. Look at the installation of the water pump &#8211; mounted at the front of the motor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And yes, as has been found out, a V motor would give two exhausts!<\/p>\n<p>Good eyes, Niels!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/shapeimage_227.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/L5681599_2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/shapeimage_36.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/L5681626.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>views of the 538 installed.<\/p>\n<p>above &#8211; note the simple intake manifold<\/p>\n<p>on the right &#8211; the clearance of the exhaust to the steering column on the right. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>below &#8211; the standard interior. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origins of the Aurelia V6 motor lie in the 538. In the 1940\u2019s, De Virgilio drew up the design for this motor, and between 1946 and 1948, a prototype motor was made &#8211;\u00a0 one of first running V6 motors by Lancia. Its target vehicle was the Aprilia, then a current model. Italian law required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aurelia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lanciainfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}