This is the craziest thing I have seen! It's a minature Top Fuel motor. The guy hand builds all this ****. He cuts all the parts out with a C&C machine. The whole thing only weighs 25 pounds. Go to this web site and click on V8 engine video. You can watch it run! Crank up your volume. It sounds just like a fuel motor. This is freakin amazing man! http://weberprecision.com/ Spend a little time and read all about this ****. He has pictures of all the parts and the history on building the motor. Cool man. I usually don't pimp stuff out but I had to share this. ENGINE SPECS TYPE FOUR STROKE V8 NO. OF CYLINDERS 8 BORE 1.000 inch STROKE 0.900 inch DISPLACEMENT 5.655 cubic inches COMPRESSION RATIO 9 to 1 ROTATION clockwise RPM MAX 12,000 HORSE POWER ????????? WEIGHT COMPLETE 25 pounds FIRING ORDER 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 SUPERCHARGER rotary sliding vanes CARBURATION dual WALBRO carbs IGNITION dual electronic OIL SYSTEM two stage dry sump monkey
There is a pretty large hobby of guys doing this. I work with a guy who restores old machinery (lathes, mills, etc) he's got an entire shop in his ba*****t. On the side he makes these engines, and goes to shows. I've seen a couple of sites that have movies of these engines running. Very cool stuff indeed.
Wow,,,,,,,if only the re-creation of my blown nitro 430 MEL sound this good I will die and go to heaven. Dam near cried listening to this thing. Beep.
This guy is good. CAD is becoming a big player in jewelry design now. Rhino is one software being used. Same software chevy cars are designed with. Boeing also uses it. It really is amazing the accuracy of these machines. Our pieces are milled out of wax and then casted using the lost wax method. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Hard to top a 25lb fuel motor.
Buncha Billet.......Everytime I see one of these things I cant help but think of the poor **** ******* that built it! Usually they're a retired engineer...Its a good thing that they do this stuff cause otherwise they'd drive the old lady crazy and she'd have to take his life. You cant deny the volume of work and thought that goes into this stuff however, and I do appreciate it on that level I've added some engineer jokes below . ENGINEER IDENTIFICATION TEST You walk into a room and notice that a picture is hanging crooked. You... A. Straighten it. B. Ignore it. C. Buy a CAD system and spend the next six months designing a solar-powered, self-adjusting picture frame while often stating aloud your belief that the inventor of the nail was a total *****. The correct answer is "C" but partial credit can be given to anybody who writes "it depends" in the margin of the test or simply blames the whole stupid thing on "Marketing." FASCINATION WITH GADGETS To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet. Ego-wise, two things are important to engineers: A. How smart they are. B. How many cool devices they own. The fastest way to get an engineer to solve a problem is to declare that the problem is unsolvable. No engineer can walk away from an unsolvable problem until it's solved. No illness or distraction is sufficient to get the engineer off the case. These types of challenges quickly become personal battles between the engineer and the laws of nature. Engineers will go without food and hygiene for days to solve a problem. (Other times just because they forgot.) And when they succeed in solving the problem they will experience an ego rush that is better than *** -- and I'm including the kind of *** where other people are involved. Nothing is more threatening to the engineer than the suggestion that somebody has more technical skill. Normal people sometimes use that knowledge as a lever to extract more work from the engineer. When an engineer says that something can't be done (a code phrase that means it's not fun to do), some clever normal people have learned to glance at the engineer with a look of comp***ion and pity and say something along these lines: "I'll ask Bob to figure it out. He knows how to solve difficult technical problems." At that point it is a good idea for the normal person to not stand between the engineer and the problem. The engineer will set upon the problem like a starved Chihuahua on a pork chop. A Story To Illustrate How Engineers Think A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were playing golf one morning. But, there was a very slow group of golfers in front of them. Doctor: What's wrong with them? We've been waiting for 15 minutes! Priest: Here comes the greenskeeper. Let's ask him. Priest: Sir, the group in front of us is rather slow aren't they? Greenskeeper: Oh yes. That's a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight while saving our club house last year. So we let them play here anytime free of charge! Priest: That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them. Doctor: Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them. Engineer: Why can't these guys play at night?
Very impressive! But man, he must have a lot of extra time on his hands! And yea, the video is cool as hell!
hand built using a CNC machine? haha. i can laugh, i'm a machinist. what i don't get, is why so many guys that do this stop at a static display piece, sure it runs, but that's it. build the rest of the car! i've earmarked a 1/4 scale car with working engine, ******, everything as a someday project since around 1989 or so, either Car Craft or Popular Hot Rodding magazine did an article on 1/4 scale r/c cars, i was hooked when i saw a picture of a fullsize and 1/4 scale thunderbird doing burnouts side by side!
There was a guy in our area that had a hemi powered '32 coupe that ran that had one of these motors in it. He was setup at the World of Wheels show about four or five years ago. He'd fire the thing up every hour or so, it was cool as hell!
Saw some of those a couple of years ago at the West Coast Nationals in Pleasanton, one of the guys said he was working on a fuel engine....I guess he finished it!!
That engine is a kids toy compared to this dude's Ferrari. Scratch-built scale model, EVERYTHING works. Took him 12 years to build... http://mps-sportproto.com/en/ I don't know if this link will work (1.2mb file). Check out this movie, it'll blow your mind... http://www.agmontgomery.com/BigA/ferrari312.ram
We have a guy here in our R/C club that hand built a 5cyl radial and put it on a scratch built 68" buy plane and flew it many times. He also built a home made R/C Helli before they ever made any R/C hellis.
Flathead anyone? http://videos.streetfire.net/Player.aspx?fileid=88192EB9-B79C-4377-8ADD-2743E1D136A9&p=0
Quote from the site: "I would just like more people to know what can be built with a lathe and milling machine. Anything you can dream up can be built, with patience and a little time of course. " "...a little time..."???? Sounds like a contender for understatement of the year!
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