The worlds tiniest V12 engine

[DaveL485]

Very impressive-

http://www.wimp.com/tiniestengine/

(Hope its not a pearoast, I did try a search first!)

[OdramaSwimLaden]

Impressive......

[hardcorehobbit]

I don't care if thats been on here before. It's awesome.

Thanks for sharing.

I'm just imagining the time and effort that the bloke put into this. Good on him.

Was it for any reason, do we know?

[carter711]

I wonder where each cylinder gets its spark from?

[jbi]

carter711 said:

I wonder where each cylinder gets its spark from?

he runs it off compressed air...

same principal though... all an engine does is pump air

[carter711]

Ahhhhh

[Nick3point2]

That's truly brilliant.

I want one.

[Nick3point2]

jbi said:

carter711 said:

I wonder where each cylinder gets its spark from?

he runs it off compressed air...

same principal though... all an engine does is pump air

Balls I was hoping it was a tiny little compression ignition engine

[Tommy Saxondale]

fantastic! there was a similar one posted a while ago, this is better tho! cheers!

[bamberwell]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDZICiGmDxs

this always impressed me, skip to 2:20 to hear it run..... it was featured on clarksons motorworld years ago, so you'll have to excuse clarksons commentary

[Superhoop]

Maybe not quite so small and probably a pea roast, but this is seriously impressive, and even runs fuel injection and a working gearbox!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUMDY01uUA

[MattOz]

Great find Dave.

[Tommy Saxondale]

Superhoop said:

Maybe not quite so small and probably a pea roast, but this is seriously impressive, and even runs fuel injection and a working gearbox!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUMDY01uUA

beaten to it by a minute old chap! none the less, another great clip!

[McSam]

Absolutely unbelievable.

Stunning, in fact.

I'm gonna watch it again. And save it and probably watch it many more times, I feel like that engine is a child or something, it's amazing!

[chevronb37]

bamberwell said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDZICiGmDxs

this always impressed me, skip to 2:20 to hear it run..... it was featured on clarksons motorworld years ago, so you'll have to excuse clarksons commentary

I saw this at the NEC one year. The 312PB is my favourite Ferrari prototype and I was so mortified as the fuel they were running it on stung my eyes so badly I couldn't go near it. What a wonderful, wonderful creation, though.

Oh and regarding the OP, I've sent the link to my old man for inspiration. Bit more fun than the static beam engines he usually makes on his lathe...

[ejenner]

Compressed air. What's the point. Might as well just build a cast lump that looks like an engine.

[Tommy Saxondale]

ejenner said:

Compressed air. What's the point. Might as well just build a cast lump that looks like an engine.

u did'nt admire the level of engineering that went into creating it then?

[mrmr96]

Tommy Saxondale said:

u did'nt admire the level of engineering that went into creating it then?

The engineering is no doubt impressive, but that Italian Ferrari on the Jezza show actually RAN on FUEL!

[ejenner]

Tommy Saxondale said:

u did'nt admire the level of engineering that went into creating it then?

I don't when the 'purpose' isn't there. In my mind engineering isn't for the sake of it. Some people have different opinions.

[Pete102]

As someone who has worked with Lathes in the past that creation is massively impressive, just incredible.