1/16 scale chevy engine

[w2amr]

http://www.moyermade.com/chevyV8.html

[PA5COR]

Impressive...

[K7SGJ]

Amazing the degree of miniaturization that can be achieved. Maybe that's the answer to the oil situation. I wonder if you might get 300 -400 HP out of one.

[KG4CGC]

Did we see this before? If I recall, it was a 2 stroke unless this one is different.

[suddenseer]

I remember someone posted a link to a scaled engine that was not operable. This is a thing of beauty (to me).

[W1GUH]

Now what that guy needs to do is to build a 'vette to put it in, then genetically engineer a driver that'll fit in it! THAT'd be AWESOME!

Kinda like that 12" Pianist!

[KG4CGC]

No, I remember the REALLY tiny one that ran on compressed air at the time the video was made. I'm taking about another (or same?) Chevy engine that ran but was operating as a 2 stroke.

[n2ize]

Amazing the degree of miniaturization that can be achieved. Maybe that's the answer to the oil situation. I wonder if you might get 300 -400 HP out of one.

My guess is that it is probably not too efficient with respect to power versus size and weight and performance. Still the fact that it is miniature and it actually runs is quite awesome. . The only type of engines that I have seen miniaturized and looking like their full size counterparts with regards to appearance, power, and efficiency and performance are jet turbine engines.

[kf4wxd]

Feh! Check this guy out. This is what happens when you leave an engineer with mad machine tool skills and too much time on his hands alone in the machine shop. He has built two 1:3 scale Ferrari 312pb race cars with running V-12 engines. His next was a Ferrari 330p4 and he has completed the engine for a Ferrari 250 GTO as a start to building the complete car. The 330s have gasoline-fuel 103 cc v-12s, scale operational 5 speed transaxles, hydraulic disc brakes, correct, operational steering and suspensions and molded rubber tires. It took him over a year to tune the exhausts so they sounded like a real 312 but a couple of octaves higher. Fiat/Ferrari has given him access to factory documentation and specs so that the cars will be as exact as possible.

http://www.mps-sportproto.com/en/modeles.php

Russ

[kf4wxd]

My bad, did I say V12s? I meant flat 12s.

Also, the power problem in the models is one of mass flow and the scale effect. That's why the most powerful small engines (think model airplanes) are the two-strokes.

Russ

[N8YX]

I worked for a guy years ago who was "crafty" at that level with regards to small engines. Were I to have an adequately equipped shop and the time to play I would probably engage in same.

Those who assemble such constructs aren't mere machinists. They're artists in every sense of the word.

[w2amr]

I worked for a guy years ago who was "crafty" at that level with regards to small engines. Were I to have an adequately equipped shop and the time to play I would probably engage in same.Why, When the real thing can be so much more fun. Probably take less time to build too.

[N8YX]

Why, When the real thing can be so much more fun. Probably take less time to build too.

I don't have access to enough machine shop to create a full-size short block from scratch but I can manage a scale model.