Can anyone ID this engine?

[PeterGreen]

So I work near a shop where they restore Italian cars, mainly Alfas and Lancias; every once in a while a Lambo. Saw this beauty and wondered what car it's from. I don't know the answer- sorry so don't get mad at me for not giving it

 

[ZeeOSix]

Looks like an inline 6 banger.

 

[blufeb95]

I think it's some sort of Ferrari flat 12.

 

[Astro14]

A flat 12 for certain.

Ferrari would be my first guess

 

[jhs914]

Looks like an inline 6 banger.

X2. It's a flat 12 (boxer) engine, most likely a Ferrari.

 

[PeterGreen]

I've seen Miuras in this shop but not recently and there's no evidence of the rest of the car. They also restore Alfa race cars from the 70s Tipo 33s

 

[Chris Meutsch]

I think it's some sort of Ferrari flat 12.

Yeah the valves confirm it's a flat 12. Never heard of one.

 

[LeoStrop]

The Testarossa had a flat 12, or how they called it, "180º V12". But that one looks more like a racing engine, with the ITB's

Alfa Romeo also did a flat 12 for some racing cars, and it looks similar to the one you posted:

Anyway, that's a cool find!

 

[Astro14]

The Testarossa, and the Berlinetta Boxer before it, both had that engine architecture.

I don’t know enough to ID the engine, but those would be good candidates for that engine.

 

[OVERKILL]

The Testarossa had a flat 12, or how they called it, "180º V12". But that one looks more like a racing engine, with the ITB's

Alfa Romeo also did a flat 12 for some racing cars, and it looks similar to the one you posted:

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Anyway, that's a cool find!

That definitely looks like it.

If you zoom in, you can see the dizzy oriented in the same manner, and the orange oil filter jutting up on the front right, which would be the same as if you rotated that engine you posted around so we were looking at it from the back.

 

[OVERKILL]

Thanks to @LeoStrop I went looking for some more Alpha flat 12 pics:

This one looks identical:

https://f1history.fandom.com/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_(Engine_Supplier)

For 1976 Bernie Ecclestone did a deal for the Brabham Formula One team to use Alfa Romeo engines based on their new flat-12 sports car unit, designed by Carlo Chiti. The engines were free and produced a claimed 510 bhp (380 kW) against the 465 bhp (347 kW) the of the ubiquitous Cosworth DFV. However, packaging the engines was difficult - they had to be removed in order to change the spark plugs - and the high fuel consumption engine required no fewer than four separate fuel tanks to contain 47 imperial gallons (214 L; 56 US gal) of fuel. Murray's increasingly adventurous designs, like the BT46 which won two races in 1978, were partly a response to the challenge of producing a suitably light and aerodynamic chassis around the bulky unit. When aerodynamic ground effect became important in 1978, it was clear that the low, wide engines would interfere with the large venturi tunnels under the car which were needed to create the ground effect. At Murray's instigation Alfa produced a narrower V12 design in only three months for the 1979 season, but it continued to be unreliable and fuel inefficient.

 

[nthach]

Ferrari made a flat-12 but unlike Subaru’s boxer design or a VW/Porsche, it was merely a flattened V12.

 

[LeoStrop]

That definitely looks like it.

If you zoom in, you can see the dizzy oriented in the same manner, and the orange oil filter jutting up on the front right, which would be the same as if you rotated that engine you posted around so we were looking at it from the back.

Yep @OVERKILL that must be it!

 

[4WD]

X2. It's a flat 12 (boxer) engine, most likely a Ferrari.

Yet a number of 12’s share crank pins (2 pistons) …

 

[PeterGreen]

Thank you for the excellent detective work. If you are ever in the Milan, Italy area, I highly recommend the Alfa Romeo factory museum.
https://www.museoalfaromeo.com/en-us/Pages/MuseoStoricoAlfaRomeo.aspx

Alfa seems like a minor brand in this country and never reached the glorified heights of some of the other Italian super car makers but the company has an amazing history.