World smallest v12 engine
12-22-2011 | 03:38 PM
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12-22-2011 | 06:57 PM
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[quote=SeanR;9123781]If you are going to go through that much trouble, at least make it gas powered instead of air powered.
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I noticed he has the cams running at crankshaft speed (same size gears on both the crank and the cams)...made no sense until I saw he intended it for compressed air.....and I agree, go the extra and run it on fuel....but in all fairness to model builders carbs, 4 cycle engines, spark plugs and the like tend not to "scale" well and still run...
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I noticed he has the cams running at crankshaft speed (same size gears on both the crank and the cams)...made no sense until I saw he intended it for compressed air.....and I agree, go the extra and run it on fuel....but in all fairness to model builders carbs, 4 cycle engines, spark plugs and the like tend not to "scale" well and still run...
12-23-2011 | 12:34 AM
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Yup, I was thinking of that too. This one doesn't impress me much.It's a nice miniature but pistons don't have rings, runs on compressed air. It's not an engine. Now that ferrari that has been around for a bout 10 years is amazing. It's FI and sound sliek the real thing........and has a working gearbox too, with a clutch.
12-23-2011 | 09:56 PM
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these guys are SUCH idiots! really!! that ferrari! so amazing! how can the guy be so talented and so STUPID. alll he needed to do was scale it up by a foot or so, and some kid could drive it down the street and you could enjoy the real sound of a ferrari! how cool would that be. use that little motor in something someone can drive. put it in one of those kiddy cars , or a mini bike, SOMETHING functional!
it kills me to think the only thing that will ever push that ferrari throttle is his little finger!
it kills me to think the only thing that will ever push that ferrari throttle is his little finger!
12-24-2011 | 10:54 AM
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