Bill Akin is assembling a 270ci Offenhauser dual-overhead-cam IndyCar engine. He uses new forged alloy Diamond pistons. The rods are original hollow pieces with full-floating bronze bushings ...

It sounds weird that the most common engine in Indy 500 would be its craziest, but the more you know about the legendary Offenhauser, the more it makes sense. That Miller straight eight I ...

This American purebred jewel of a vehicle is a 1968 Eagle Offenhauser Indy Car that carries with ... with a 305 CI Weslake Ford V8 stock-block engine. However, the specs on it have changed a ...

To this, I simply say....Has the world forgotten about the Offenhauser engine? The 251.92 cubic inch four-cylinder engine was first built in 1933, and was a competitive engine at Indy well into ...

Fred Offenhauser and Leo Goossen had built the definitive Indy engine with a startling 27 wins—in both naturally aspirated and supercharged configuration—18 straight from ’47 to ’64.

When his father sold out of Offenhauser in 1964 to become a distributor for Ford's double-overhead-camshaft V8 engine, Meyer relocated to Indianapolis and became a mentor to many future chief ...

The conservative Indy racing establishment was skeptical that small, light, rear-engine cars could compete with their traditional big, rugged, Offenhauser-engine roadsters. In spite of having only ...