Yeah the inline 8's are naturally balanced, and there's 2 of them so it's probably more than twice as balanced as a straight 8 which are already very balanced motors. It probably won't turn 3000 rpm's either.
@@matthewmorgan582 inline 8s are perfectly balanced, to begin with, adding another bank of cylinders will reduce torsional vibration on the engine block since the block will be more square-like shaped (more rigid) instead of very long and narrow and increase the number of pistons that overlap for every stroke increasing the smoothness of the engine. A V16 with the same displacement as an inline 8 would have less imbalanced mass, but it would be minimal since an inline 8 is considered perfectly balanced, to begin with, and the only form of improved balance would be the shorter crankshaft (less torsional vibration) and each piston will be smaller, therefore, lighter (less mass, less vibration)
@@jhixx8910 Yeah I believe anything over 10 cylinders can be tuned to be firing 100% of the time. At these low rpm's the increase in cylinders would just allow the engine to fire all the time with no pause and some overlap. I would love to see the crankshaft though. That would look crazy.
This was the last Video I ever showed my Grandad before He passed. We Both always shared an interest for mechanical stuff, especially cars. He often talked about the straight 8 studebaker they had growing up. Thanks for sharing this awesome video!
I went to an auto show in Milwaukee years ago and one display was a 8 cylinder Packard and the owner stood a nickel on the hood and it remained standing while the engine was running. Try that in a Cadillac.
@@cliffordkiehl3959 Giving the fact that Cadillac has 2x the cylinders, it will do the same no doubt. It could probably manage to keep the coin on the valve cover or any other flat part of the engine itself.
@@cliffordkiehl3959 Straight 6, Flat 6, Straight 8, V12, Flat 12, V16 and Flat 16 engine configurations have perfect primary and secondary balance (there might be some other obscure configurations that I have forgotten about). IF well made, you should be able to place a coin on the top of any such engine, rev it all the way to redline and it shouldn't fall over.
At the time these were considered some of the finest cars made in the US. The average Cadillac in the early 20th century cost more than a Rolls-Royce. As a matter of fact it was taboo to drive one of these things during the Great Depression of the 1930s...it's amazing that they were able to keep producing them as long as they did.
Cadillac, Dusenberg and Packard were the finest cars made in the world at the time. Rolls was their equal only on its best days and Mercedes was never a competitor. Even as late as the late 50's a Cadillac Eldorado Brougham out-priced and outclassed Rolls.
I remember the starting drill for my dad's 48 Lincoln Continental V12. It was a little simpler... unless the weather was below 60°. In cool weather he had to pull half the spark plugs because it wouldn't crank against all 12 cylinders when it was cool weather. Once it warmed up on 6 cylinders he put the other six spark plugs back in and we'd go for a ride.
@@Radovanslav - This was in America, however, as a European, you must be excluding the UK from Europe (BREXIT notwithstanding) - at the time, the UK temperatures would have been Imperial. But sorry for assuming reason would suggest that 140°c isn't typically considered cool weather. Consider it payback for all the times I wondered how those Motobecane mopeds could possibly get up to 50mph.
@@Radovanslav Mr. Farenheit never came to North America. His claim to fame comes from Europe. Once Europeans got used to that it changed to a metric based system. I used to prepare a 1946 Maple Leaf 3 Ton Fire Truck for Christmas Parades. It was always cold, -20C or about -2f. Opening the hangar and installing the 6 volt battery was always hard on the fingers. The day before I plugged in the engine block heater and starting it was a cake walk. To save the battery , some gasoline drops into the carb and when the second cylinder was rolling past TDC on the power stroke it was firing and it was always enough to keep the engine running.
To think that they designed this with only a few decades of experience in building internal combustion engines, and without the help of computer programs, and built it without the help of computer controlled (or even NC) milling machines... I don't think there are many people or companies around today that accomplish engineering feats of a similar magnitude.
@@autoreisdorfer We have also gained even more with that same technology. It is important to pay due respect to manufacturers of the past, but we are undeniably capable of producing more complex workpieces with greater efficiency today.
Agreed. The skills required then were much higher in many aspects. Look a little later at the complexity of Porsche Fuhrmann designed Motor Typ 547 put into speedsters, race cars, carrera 356s, 550 etc. Incredibly complex engine that took 30 hours to assemble at the factory. Not to many motors designed in the early 50s had a 6400 rpm redline.
Ive yet to see a 2.4l normally aspirated production car 4 cyl make 271 lb-ft of torque, but yes, times have changed. For 1930, that 165hp was supercar output, average car of that era was a Ford model A with around 30hp. Nowadays if you have 400hp people be like "thats alright" lol Gotta remember that gasoline was of significantly lower quality and octane back then Also remember that that 165hp was what that engine was rated at at 100% duty cycle, kind of like industrial engines are today. A modern high output 4cyl car engine is rated in peak hp and wont last long if asked to put out peak power all the time. In any case, still really cool that a car from 92 years ago could still keep up with modern traffic, most cars of that era can't
@@jackmclane1826 I disagree. Babied with the utmost of care like this Caddy above has been? They'll run just fine. Older vehicle's looser tolerances wear better but modern maintenance could keep a modern 4cyl purring for 100 years.
The problem is the modern engine relies on computer chips and circuit boards where in 30 years the parts will be impossible to get. Worse the firmware source code is proprietary so you will not be able to recompile it for a replacement ecu. For a long time maybe even 90 years you can keep using circuit boards from wrecked vehicles though as most vehicles will reach the junkyard with the ECU still working.
The Cadillac V-16 has always impressed me. It was the largest engine Cadillac ever produced, and it was in a car that was so beautiful. The only Cadillac that ever came even close to this was the Cadillac Sixteen Concept which never went into production.
That’s wrong actually. The largest engine Cadillac ever produced, and the largest engine ever equipped in a production car was the 500 cubic inch 8.2 liter V8 starting in 1970. The 1930 V16 was only 452 cubic inches. Early 1970’s magazine ads used to show the newly equipped 500 cubic inch V8 alongside the classic V16’s as a nod to show they had actually outdone themselves in regards to offering the largest engine ever produced in the history of production cars. Another great feat achieved by Cadillac.
@@Samuelfish2k relax...its the Internet...of course people come in here to "spout off" and seek recognition. I wouldn't have bothered to correct the TROLL.
Pumps on, throttle closed, choke as required, pumps on, timing full late, crank engine. Timing advance to early as required, go late if you hear knock. Engine start checklist complete. I bet there's a shifting checklist too.
The V12 is the smoothest engine because its firing pattern is evenly distributed. Each cylinder 60° of a total of 360° so 6 cylinders and being a four stroke another 360° and another 6 cylinders gives you one cycle. The only other engine is the flat "boxer" six. Each cylinder 120° in that case and the cylinders are opposed countering each other. All others require counter balancing weight or worse balancing shafts.
I have this exact vehicle in my back shed along with a 1941 GMC stepside very awesome machines of course the 41 goes way damn faster it’s been modified from pistons- intake- carburetor it’s had it’s fair share of work lol great machines
I remember my Grandpa telling me the V16 he saw running one time that you could stand a nickle on its side and it wouldn't topple over. That was how smooth that V16 was at idle. I miss you Grandpa.
Judging from comments below, people seem to think that during the Great Depression everyone was starving. My mom's family lived in a one bedroom apartment, very tight, occasionally they went without dinner during the worst of the depression. My grandfather was literally a salesman on the road, and if he didn't sell, there was no money. It was tough, according to my mom, for about two years. Yet, they always had good clothes, were always clean, of my five uncles three went to college and got degrees, one went into the Navy, one into the Army, all ended up upper middle class. They didn't starve. On my dad's side, my grandpa never lost his job, he was an accountant and made a solid middle class living all through the Depression. They never went hungry. In fact, almost all my family worked during the Depression. Some people did really have a hard time getting even enough to eat, but it was not like that everywhere. There was none of this "taboo to drive a Cadillac". People drove what they had, if they could afford a car. Men bought suits, some people still went on vacations.
That's because it wasn't cities hit so hard by the Great Depression but rather rural areas. Farmers basically lost all of their crops and had no long term backup for if the fields failed for so long.
+ShrapkiN Women used to score lower on IQ tests, but have closed the gap and sometimes score higher on average. What you're talking about is not so much a racial characteristic, but a product of environment and long-term well-being. Women did not use to have the same opportunities as men, but as that gap closed, performance improved. Similarly, blacks often don't have access to the same level of education or other opportunities as whites (on average).
You should do a longer vid about this car and engine. Love the engine sound. The floor starter foot plunger does two things: engages the starter gear into the flywheel gear and 2) switches on the power to the starter, just like my old 41' Chevy. If you were to very slowly move the foot starter down with the engine running, you would hear the starter shaft gear just begin to catch the top of the spinning flywheel ring gear, which you probably don't want to do. Very simple and reliable system. Thanks
Its probably a movable pole piece type starter, the foot pedal electrically engages the starter by putting the windings in place, and the actual engagement to flywheel would be accomplished by a bendix drive (literally uses the inertia of the drive gear to allow a screw to plunge the gear out) When the engine starts, the increased speed of the engine relative to the starter disengages the starter from the flywheel. Great design, but if the engine coughs before lighting off, you have to wait for the starter to stop. Modern permanent magnet starters, of course, use an electromagnetic plunger which pulls the gear out and also engages the starter motor electrically. Modern starters have the advantage of remaining engaged until the engine is actually running.
Superb engineering and quality. Now they make cars cheap to wear out quickly. We should be going forward in technology but it’s all about the mighty $$
@Stayoutlatetatebate yeah but its cursed money, in the end you dont get to keep any of it. And we were just having a laugh dont take it too seriously 😆
@Stayoutlatetatebate i dont support crime either. But when a crime reveals thought, resourcefulness or just plain balls! sometimes i cant help but feel like those guys earned their money, even if was robbed. So, in a way, i guess we agree.
@@reegmeister relax...dont let those Internet TROLLS bother you...of course they are clueless...but so what...helps them get acknowledgment for their pathetic existence...!
That startup was insanely smooth! And man what a quite engine! Modern Diesels sound like they are eating themselves up while this sounds so smooth for a vehicle from the 1930s.
Wow, where do you live that it's a problem sourcing spark plugs? I got some iridium ones for my Honda J-series V6 - which isn't a popular engine in my part of the world - with zero issue, me living in the Empire of Evil (of all places). Do you maybe live in Zimbabwe or something?
The human mind, car / plane / WW2 / modern fighter engines and computers are not entirely dissimilar. Our minds are not fully at 100% somewhere between 10-45 minutes after getting up. Engines- with timing, belts and distributors / modern fuse boxes / tiny computers also need to be set up, especially counting the now lovingly-prehistoric start up sequence in this video. Computers, like: desktops, laptops AND, hilariously-epic enough also have programmed startups that their human creators WROTE for hours on?! We live in MORE SERIOUSLY EPIC TIMES than we can EVER try to describe. Fucking REALIZE THAT.🤯☝🏻🥲🤷🏻♂️
Compare it to a 4 cylinder engine, which has 4 explosions in which to turn the crankshaft 720 degrees. The v16 has 16 explosions to do the same work, so the impact of each one on the "vibration" of the car will be far less And that's not even getting into things like configuration of those cylinders (inline vs V or flat engines) etc
Wow, that distributor looks wild! Does it have 2 separate rotors so that multiple cylinders can fire at the same time, or do all 16 cylinders fire sequentially?
Looks sequential, I found this: from a 1935 MOTOR"S odd #'s left bank,,Even #'s right bank the order is different between early and late,, '35-'37 1-8-9-14-3-6-11-2-15-10-7-4-13-12-5-16 '38-'40 1-4-9-12-3-16-11-8-15-14-7-6-13-2-5-10
@@ShadowLady1 They did indeed though. Unlike nowadays where everything which is electronics based and meant to be disposable right after the warranty expires so the people have to buy new ones.
And yet a car like this can likely be pulled out of a barn after 80 years and still run with very little effort. Can't say the same about today's modern PC's on wheels.
Me too, that Caddy , which was on the same level as a rolls royce, cost about $150k in todays money, today $150k wont get anything close to that level of class
90 years old. And still. What a beautiful engine!
Bruh,,this video uploaded 8 years ago.
@@drive_with_pov then it's 100 years old and still beautiful
@@C4664L its a car from 1930 i presume. 2022-1930=92 yrs old. im sorry but ur math is wrong. But srsly such an old beautiful beast.
@@Riku1302 r/woooosh
@@boobas i thought the meaning of woosh meant that there is a Joke. There is no joke
It's like having start checklist for a plane.
I thought it was a plane looking at the thumb pic
Never flown a plane with timing controls before
or a car for that matter
Hardly.
Actually not that much to do for cars of the period
i bet you can balance a coin on that engine! beautiful
One of the few engines with a counter-weighted crank at the time, combined with low RPM, it's expected.
yes u can they run even more smoth the v12s
Yeah the inline 8's are naturally balanced, and there's 2 of them so it's probably more than twice as balanced as a straight 8 which are already very balanced motors. It probably won't turn 3000 rpm's either.
@@matthewmorgan582 inline 8s are perfectly balanced, to begin with, adding another bank of cylinders will reduce torsional vibration on the engine block since the block will be more square-like shaped (more rigid) instead of very long and narrow and increase the number of pistons that overlap for every stroke increasing the smoothness of the engine.
A V16 with the same displacement as an inline 8 would have less imbalanced mass, but it would be minimal since an inline 8 is considered perfectly balanced, to begin with, and the only form of improved balance would be the shorter crankshaft (less torsional vibration) and each piston will be smaller, therefore, lighter (less mass, less vibration)
@@jhixx8910 Yeah I believe anything over 10 cylinders can be tuned to be firing 100% of the time. At these low rpm's the increase in cylinders would just allow the engine to fire all the time with no pause and some overlap. I would love to see the crankshaft though. That would look crazy.
Spark plug companies loved the good old days
Good thing this car don't have 2 plugs per cylinder like my Suzuki SV650.
32 plugs ouch!
the real kicker are the iridium plug cars with 2 plugs per cylinder
And given its age, they need to be replaced every five thousand miles too! What a time to be alive!
So did fan belt companies lol
@@AFlyingSwive you never need iridium plugs, copper plugs work better and are FAR FAR cheaper. its just you need to change them about 3x as often
This was the last Video I ever showed my Grandad before He passed. We Both always shared an interest for mechanical stuff, especially cars. He often talked about the straight 8 studebaker they had growing up. Thanks for sharing this awesome video!
🙂
What ?
A *straight* 8 ???
@@ohchord9573 yup I belive some Buick’s had straight 8s aswell
@@ohchord9573duesenberg!
Awesome machine for sure. Good memories for you also. 👍
That must be a smooth running engine.
They are.
I went to an auto show in Milwaukee years ago and one display was a 8 cylinder Packard and the owner stood a nickel on the hood and it remained standing while the engine was running. Try that in a Cadillac.
@@cliffordkiehl3959 Giving the fact that Cadillac has 2x the cylinders, it will do the same no doubt. It could probably manage to keep the coin on the valve cover or any other flat part of the engine itself.
@@cliffordkiehl3959 Straight 6, Flat 6, Straight 8, V12, Flat 12, V16 and Flat 16 engine configurations have perfect primary and secondary balance (there might be some other obscure configurations that I have forgotten about). IF well made, you should be able to place a coin on the top of any such engine, rev it all the way to redline and it shouldn't fall over.
At least they are good sounding. 👍
At the time these were considered some of the finest cars made in the US. The average Cadillac in the early 20th century cost more than a Rolls-Royce. As a matter of fact it was taboo to drive one of these things during the Great Depression of the 1930s...it's amazing that they were able to keep producing them as long as they did.
they definitely were the top of the line luxury when most people at the time were hurting
Cadillac, Dusenberg and Packard were the finest cars made in the world at the time. Rolls was their equal only on its best days and Mercedes was never a competitor. Even as late as the late 50's a Cadillac Eldorado Brougham out-priced and outclassed Rolls.
your ass and your mouth seem to have changed places,check history and facts a little more carefully.
Other than the half-truth about it being taboo to drive expensive cars during the depression who here was wrong and how?
Check out a Cadillac CTS-V
As a pilot, I thoroughly appreciate anything with a starting procedure :)
Model A Ford is basically the same. Any car pre-40s is basically the same
Hell yeah.
@@myspace_forever what aircraft? A 757 or A321?
Cessna 402 mechanic here.
Seeing that timing control knob is a first for me.
then you my friend need a vintage chopper they all have very personal starting procedures to get them to kick over
I remember the starting drill for my dad's 48 Lincoln Continental V12. It was a little simpler... unless the weather was below 60°. In cool weather he had to pull half the spark plugs because it wouldn't crank against all 12 cylinders when it was cool weather. Once it warmed up on 6 cylinders he put the other six spark plugs back in and we'd go for a ride.
as an European i was thinking in celsius and that kinda confused me. Enjoy your freedom units.
@@Radovanslav - This was in America, however, as a European, you must be excluding the UK from Europe (BREXIT notwithstanding) - at the time, the UK temperatures would have been Imperial.
But sorry for assuming reason would suggest that 140°c isn't typically considered cool weather. Consider it payback for all the times I wondered how those Motobecane mopeds could possibly get up to 50mph.
@@Radovanslav Mr. Farenheit never came to North America. His claim to fame comes from Europe. Once Europeans got used to that it changed to a metric based system.
I used to prepare a 1946 Maple Leaf 3 Ton Fire Truck for Christmas Parades. It was always cold, -20C or about -2f. Opening the hangar and installing the 6 volt battery was always hard on the fingers. The day before I plugged in the engine block heater and starting it was a cake walk. To save the battery , some gasoline drops into the carb and when the second cylinder was rolling past TDC on the power stroke it was firing and it was always enough to keep the engine running.
@@Radovanslav Fahrenheit is objectively superior for day to day temperature discussion. Kelvin is better in scientific settings. Celsius is useless
@@47f0 LOL brexit doesn’t mean the UK isn’t in Europe 🤣
I’m absolutely stunned how quietly and smoothly it runs! Beautiful car!
smooth is an understatement. the V16 Cadillacs could balance a coin on them. thats a hard task now, let alone back in the 30s.
To think that they designed this with only a few decades of experience in building internal combustion engines, and without the help of computer programs, and built it without the help of computer controlled (or even NC) milling machines...
I don't think there are many people or companies around today that accomplish engineering feats of a similar magnitude.
Truer words never spoken
Excellent point of view, I fully agree, we lost a lot with technology.
Plus modern day cars are made to fail, not last, with a few exceptions.
@@autoreisdorfer We have also gained even more with that same technology. It is important to pay due respect to manufacturers of the past, but we are undeniably capable of producing more complex workpieces with greater efficiency today.
Agreed. The skills required then were much higher in many aspects. Look a little later at the complexity of Porsche Fuhrmann designed Motor Typ 547 put into speedsters, race cars, carrera 356s, 550 etc. Incredibly complex engine that took 30 hours to assemble at the factory. Not to many motors designed in the early 50s had a 6400 rpm redline.
Very Quiet. I was expecting it to be a lot noisier
as a general rule, more cylinders make for a smoother quieter engine. no comment on gas mileage tho! :)
"Gas yardage" would be more accurate.
Gas incheage tho
More gallons per mile than MPG... still gorgeous though.
Gas kilometerage
Its amazing that we can now produce the same amount of torque and significantly more power from a 2L 4 banger. Oh how times have changed!
I bet that none of those will still run in 90 years... ;)
@@jackmclane1826 Very true.
Ive yet to see a 2.4l normally aspirated production car 4 cyl make 271 lb-ft of torque, but yes, times have changed.
For 1930, that 165hp was supercar output, average car of that era was a Ford model A with around 30hp.
Nowadays if you have 400hp people be like "thats alright" lol
Gotta remember that gasoline was of significantly lower quality and octane back then
Also remember that that 165hp was what that engine was rated at at 100% duty cycle, kind of like industrial engines are today.
A modern high output 4cyl car engine is rated in peak hp and wont last long if asked to put out peak power all the time.
In any case, still really cool that a car from 92 years ago could still keep up with modern traffic, most cars of that era can't
@@jackmclane1826 I disagree. Babied with the utmost of care like this Caddy above has been? They'll run just fine. Older vehicle's looser tolerances wear better but modern maintenance could keep a modern 4cyl purring for 100 years.
The problem is the modern engine relies on computer chips and circuit boards where in 30 years the parts will be impossible to get. Worse the firmware source code is proprietary so you will not be able to recompile it for a replacement ecu. For a long time maybe even 90 years you can keep using circuit boards from wrecked vehicles though as most vehicles will reach the junkyard with the ECU still working.
I love these old cars, being more involved with operating them is very cool! Sounds beautiful too
The Cadillac V-16 has always impressed me. It was the largest engine Cadillac ever produced, and it was in a car that was so beautiful. The only Cadillac that ever came even close to this was the Cadillac Sixteen Concept which never went into production.
That’s wrong actually. The largest engine Cadillac ever produced, and the largest engine ever equipped in a production car was the 500 cubic inch 8.2 liter V8 starting in 1970.
The 1930 V16 was only 452 cubic inches.
Early 1970’s magazine ads used to show the newly equipped 500 cubic inch V8 alongside the classic V16’s as a nod to show they had actually outdone themselves in regards to offering the largest engine ever produced in the history of production cars. Another great feat achieved by Cadillac.
@@Samuelfish2k relax...its the Internet...of course people come in here to "spout off" and seek recognition. I wouldn't have bothered to correct the TROLL.
It's basically the ground version of a biplane, vehicles from this era were beautiful mechanically..
My laughing chimney is a creepy guy
Pumps on, throttle closed, choke as required, pumps on, timing full late, crank engine. Timing advance to early as required, go late if you hear knock. Engine start checklist complete.
I bet there's a shifting checklist too.
basically dual clutching, but i dont know if this car had syncros (maybe, because they were the most advanced cars at their time ... )
Ellenor Malik it sounds like a light aircraft
Time to request taxi and take-off clearance.
I mean this is about the time that Cadillac developed their automatic transmission
@@stephenkoss2763 The Automatic transmission came out in 1939-1940. After the V16 ended production. The V16 uses a 3 speed sychromesh transmission.
How smooth is the throttle delivery? I've felt a V12's throttle and I can only imagine that 16 would be even smoother :)
The throttle delivery is similer to a Chrysler Turbine: Unbelievably smooth.
The V12 is the smoothest engine because its firing pattern is evenly distributed. Each cylinder 60° of a total of 360° so 6 cylinders and being a four stroke another 360° and another 6 cylinders gives you one cycle. The only other engine is the flat "boxer" six. Each cylinder 120° in that case and the cylinders are opposed countering each other. All others require counter balancing weight or worse balancing shafts.
@@graham2631 5 cylinders and v10s are pretty smooth as well
@James Wheeler yeah
@James Wheeler 10 is an even number my man
It was never this complicated in Mafia: City of Lost Heaven 🤔 just fire it up and flee the crime scene
Kudos to the engineers back in the day. They knew what they doing without the aid of computers. Very smart gentlemen they were...
Uh bummer! This video was too short!
What an elegant piece of art.
will this fit in my honda
CrazAyy Shut-up idiot
CrazAyy switching a VTEC? Not good man. Not good.
Dear Honda, please build us a V16 VTEC and a car to put it in. Oh, and no CVT's.
*maybe...if you take out all the seats and put it in the interiour lol*
@@mrsebring181 No CVT? Then get a manual and stop complaining
year: 2130
so this is the classic bugatti tourbillon
That looks and sounds amazing. Very clean looking engine and car, it clearly is loved and taken care of.
Runs beautifully, sounds wonderful! Show us the rest of the car, please!
amazing
That sounds like a ridiculously expensive wood boat as you might find at Lake Havasu, what a magnificent machine.
Sixteen Cylinders! Now, THAT'S A PROPER MOTOR!!!
I have this exact vehicle in my back shed along with a 1941 GMC stepside very awesome machines of course the 41 goes way damn faster it’s been modified from pistons- intake- carburetor it’s had it’s fair share of work lol great machines
That is awesome!
how could you get your hand on them bruh
Hi there what a piece of art this is but can you please tell us what maker and model this beauty is and thank you
finally, a power source for rosie o'donnels vibrator!
good one. lol
"Donald Trump likes this"
Not even a v16 wants to pleasure Rosie oDonnel
Not even a Harley Davidson wants to pleasure her
You'd need a nuclear power plant for that pig.
Can I have your car please sir, or if not i'm willing to trade my Subaru Foresta 2003 model for it.
I'll trade my 1994 Toyota Camry
It's a better deal!
I'll trade your Toyota Camry for 2 rusty nails and a chewed gum.
I'll trade you my base set holo charizard
kicksoffs Yes. or 19 ladas.
@@evarno1262 I'll trade you a rusted out 75 Datsun with no engine and a baseball-size wad of ABC gum for your '94 Camry...
I remember my Grandpa telling me the V16 he saw running one time that you could stand a nickle on its side and it wouldn't topple over. That was how smooth that V16 was at idle. I miss you Grandpa.
Older cars are MASSIVE in person and i mean ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE compared to a modern day suv
I bet that engine is as smooth as a gravy sandwhich
Smoother than joe friday reciting traffic law
Judging from comments below, people seem to think that during the Great Depression everyone was starving. My mom's family lived in a one bedroom apartment, very tight, occasionally they went without dinner during the worst of the depression. My grandfather was literally a salesman on the road, and if he didn't sell, there was no money. It was tough, according to my mom, for about two years. Yet, they always had good clothes, were always clean, of my five uncles three went to college and got degrees, one went into the Navy, one into the Army, all ended up upper middle class. They didn't starve. On my dad's side, my grandpa never lost his job, he was an accountant and made a solid middle class living all through the Depression. They never went hungry. In fact, almost all my family worked during the Depression. Some people did really have a hard time getting even enough to eat, but it was not like that everywhere. There was none of this "taboo to drive a Cadillac". People drove what they had, if they could afford a car. Men bought suits, some people still went on vacations.
That's because it wasn't cities hit so hard by the Great Depression but rather rural areas. Farmers basically lost all of their crops and had no long term backup for if the fields failed for so long.
+ToyKingWonder are you like 80 years old ?
ToyKingWonder they only starved in comparison to the fat diet people live on today
+Zach Roloff "Crime didn't exist before black people"
+ShrapkiN Women used to score lower on IQ tests, but have closed the gap and sometimes score higher on average. What you're talking about is not so much a racial characteristic, but a product of environment and long-term well-being. Women did not use to have the same opportunities as men, but as that gap closed, performance improved. Similarly, blacks often don't have access to the same level of education or other opportunities as whites (on average).
You should do a longer vid about this car and engine. Love the engine sound. The floor starter foot plunger does two things: engages the starter gear into the flywheel gear and 2) switches on the power to the starter, just like my old 41' Chevy. If you were to very slowly move the foot starter down with the engine running, you would hear the starter shaft gear just begin to catch the top of the spinning flywheel ring gear, which you probably don't want to do. Very simple and reliable system. Thanks
Its probably a movable pole piece type starter, the foot pedal electrically engages the starter by putting the windings in place, and the actual engagement to flywheel would be accomplished by a bendix drive (literally uses the inertia of the drive gear to allow a screw to plunge the gear out)
When the engine starts, the increased speed of the engine relative to the starter disengages the starter from the flywheel.
Great design, but if the engine coughs before lighting off, you have to wait for the starter to stop.
Modern permanent magnet starters, of course, use an electromagnetic plunger which pulls the gear out and also engages the starter motor electrically.
Modern starters have the advantage of remaining engaged until the engine is actually running.
My dad's 55 Buick Roadmaster had the starter switch under the pedal too.
HE can't now, cuz he's homeless
Man imagine being able to purchase a brand new car in 1930 with a V fucking 16! Amazing. Now they just build shit for the most part.
Superb engineering and quality. Now they make cars cheap to wear out quickly. We should be going forward in technology but it’s all about the mighty $$
Beautiful sound
I want buy this engine who think so.
@@CafeNinja_Japan why
@@adrianwelgemoed9562 The engine wanna change for my car.
@@CafeNinja_Japan what car?
@@adrianwelgemoed9562 Toyota crown most new model.
I can’t imagine too many these being used as a getaway car with a start procedure like that.
Ha! Clearly you were never a getaway driver 😁 You dont turn off the engine. You let it idle and gear in 1st. No seatbelts and no parking brake either.
@@henrlima87 Yup, I even sucked at GTA!
@@TheBrowncoat2112 meh crime doesnt pay anyway so youre good 🤣
@Stayoutlatetatebate yeah but its cursed money, in the end you dont get to keep any of it. And we were just having a laugh dont take it too seriously 😆
@Stayoutlatetatebate i dont support crime either. But when a crime reveals thought, resourcefulness or just plain balls! sometimes i cant help but feel like those guys earned their money, even if was robbed. So, in a way, i guess we agree.
like starting a cessna 172
No heat for carb ice though.
No mixture control.
calm down
@@reegmeister relax...dont let those Internet TROLLS bother you...of course they are clueless...but so what...helps them get acknowledgment for their pathetic existence...!
Cons:
You'd die in a crash
Pros:
Everything else, beautiful car
The exhaust sound is unbelievable. I could listen to that all day.
...... what an absolutely dreamcar!!! I m very faszinated about it..... stay well and best Regards from Germany :)))
hi
Incredible machine. I want one!
Erwin Schrödinger what does that have to do with his comment?
L3G1T look at the profile pic
LowNightsGaming lmao nvm
I wonder how many gallons are needed to start. 1/4?
How do you feel you benefit by advertising to the world that you are hopelessly ignorant about automobiles...?
@@6686L You tell me.
Че за космические технологии? У меня УМЗ 4216 громче стартером работает! Машина 2014 года, я возмущен(
The engine is perfectly balanced, as all things should be
Beautiful well engineered car, love the fishtail exhausts.
Me too.
The car seems to be in very beautiful condition.
"Walmart ground, Cadillac 3452 on parking area 23, request engine start."
That startup was insanely smooth! And man what a quite engine! Modern Diesels sound like they are eating themselves up while this sounds so smooth for a vehicle from the 1930s.
Imagine having to buy 16 spark plugs, Jesus. I have a hard enough time buying 6
G35 Goon A Hemi V8 engine has two spark plugs per cylinder 8x2=16.
Wow, where do you live that it's a problem sourcing spark plugs? I got some iridium ones for my Honda J-series V6 - which isn't a popular engine in my part of the world - with zero issue, me living in the Empire of Evil (of all places). Do you maybe live in Zimbabwe or something?
It's not a problem, it's just really expensive. Had to replace spark plugs on my MB v6 a while ago. 12 plugs cost me quite a lot.
better than a crappy CTS..
capitán_ camote_picante the Vs are nasty though
Jakme Auff I prefer a rally tuned Subaru rather than a stock CTS-V
Tyler Freeman I second that
Well yeah, cause northstar.
Потрясающий запуск двигателя! Потрясающий звук! Потрясающе красивый автомобиль! Уважение владельцу!
Not gonna lie idk why I was expecting a super loud rumble. I was like so is he going to turn it on when it was already on haha
Hey that car sounds just like a guy talking about a car! They don't make them like they used to!
The human mind, car / plane / WW2 / modern fighter engines and computers are not entirely dissimilar.
Our minds are not fully at 100% somewhere between 10-45 minutes after getting up.
Engines- with timing, belts and distributors / modern fuse boxes / tiny computers also need to be set up, especially counting the now lovingly-prehistoric start up sequence in this video.
Computers, like: desktops, laptops AND, hilariously-epic enough also have programmed startups that their human creators WROTE for hours on?!
We live in MORE SERIOUSLY EPIC TIMES than we can EVER try to describe.
Fucking REALIZE THAT.🤯☝🏻🥲🤷🏻♂️
ten samochod chodzi lepiej niz nie jeden nowy, silnik ZERO WIBRACJI !! engine good :)
Sweet and gentle ride. I bet some ladies would get their faces from the phones to look at that beauty.
Cadillac always did it best. I'd take a GM over a ford anyday
Hank Hill Ford is "RED" ! ? * FIGURES. Like VW.
Amen to that, brother!
You can just go ahead and bring it to my house man, I’ll take care of it for ya 🤣🤣
Amazing. And a whole 100 hp. Crazy how times have evolved 1 liter 4 bangers capable of 1000 hp
Just sheer beauty. No wonder vehicles like that are still on the road today. They'll never die.
Unfortunately most were scrapped during ww2
The procedures are always the best!
Fantastically beautiful, lovely sound, every piece I can see, I can smell it:)
Still starts better than my 2003 Honda CR-V 😩🙃
I thought this is an airplane, still amazing!
You dont know the difference between an automobile and an airplane?
What a smooth running engine
are v16s known to specifically be so smooth and without vibration?
Smoothness was the main point of using it. Cadillac did revive the V16 for a concept car on 2003.
th-cam.com/video/rYsrXGbBMGA/w-d-xo.html
Compare it to a 4 cylinder engine, which has 4 explosions in which to turn the crankshaft 720 degrees.
The v16 has 16 explosions to do the same work, so the impact of each one on the "vibration" of the car will be far less
And that's not even getting into things like configuration of those cylinders (inline vs V or flat engines) etc
Very impressive.
Thank you for sharing this unique experience!
Damn the punani you'd get driving this car.
Can you do this in a brooklyn gangster accent now and wear a suit with a fedora
Wow, that distributor looks wild! Does it have 2 separate rotors so that multiple cylinders can fire at the same time, or do all 16 cylinders fire sequentially?
Looks sequential, I found this:
from a 1935 MOTOR"S odd #'s left bank,,Even #'s right bank
the order is different between early and late,,
'35-'37 1-8-9-14-3-6-11-2-15-10-7-4-13-12-5-16
'38-'40 1-4-9-12-3-16-11-8-15-14-7-6-13-2-5-10
That engine is a pure art ... I could imagine just sitting next to it and listening.
I liked the sound.
Welp, you know nobody is stealing the car anytime soon
so beautiful, i am guessing 4-6 MPG?
Those were engineered so well. That’s amazing how well that starts and how smooth it runs. Proper Cadillac …
Those blocks and heads where build to survive everything! Nice to see ir running in conditions ❤
nope cars back then didnt last long
@@ShadowLady1 They did indeed though. Unlike nowadays where everything which is electronics based and meant to be disposable right after the warranty expires so the people have to buy new ones.
@@ShadowLady1 These cars could last a really long time when taken care of
Ahh, the sound of oiled inprecision, so much nicer than the souless cnc blandsmobiles of today. A beautiful car indeed.
And yet a car like this can likely be pulled out of a barn after 80 years and still run with very little effort. Can't say the same about today's modern PC's on wheels.
Bruh just realised there was gay in 1930
Surprised those cars aren’t fast fast for being a v16
The sound of the engine is sublime 👌
Starting this thing is like starting a plane.
Thing sounds amazing and it's unbelievable to know it's still running since 1930.
Old cars.....no matter the make are beautiful. So much more than those made today. I wish today's vehicles had this kind of class
Very true, my friend
Me too, that Caddy , which was on the same level as a rolls royce, cost about $150k in todays money, today $150k wont get anything close to that level of class
I know the straight six is the smoothest engine and so the V12 is a refined version of that. The V16 is different but purrs beautifully.
Seems this V 16 is quieter than a stationary Tesla 🤨
Merci Zyad pour cette aberante et nostalgique vidéo
back when having a caddy meant money and talent, and they stood tall among other auto makers
Back when GM built great cars.
The real question is: is it automatic or manual?
Thats some good american 130 v16 horsies
This is a pure AMERICAN engine !
more old inferior pollution causing road metal
It’s actually older than my Grandpa
From 16 cylinders it is now 4 cylinders
Back when things were built decently
Shower controls at a friend’s house