World's Smallest V12

[XJ13]

Such a beautiful piece of work!

World's Smallest V12

[Mr Gear]

Beautiful. But I can't tell if it is burning fuel or just running off compressed air. I think the latter.

[Tallow]

That's pretty impressive.... albeit slightly pointless. Fair play to whoever did it though, that would require some serious patience.

[Nick3point2]

Repost I'm afraid, came up earlier in he week.

[bga]

Very nicely done!

[Fire99]

Tallow said:

That's pretty impressive.... albeit slightly pointless. Fair play to whoever did it though, that would require some serious patience.

I wouldn't say pointless. He did it, because he can.. No different from making anything that has no functional purpose.

[cymtriks]

Very nice.

Has anyone ever built their own full sized engine? The closest I can think of are the V8 versions of motor bike engines.

[Tallow]

Fire99 said:

I wouldn't say pointless. He did it, because he can.. No different from making anything that has no functional purpose.

Fair point, but I guess we're bordering on a philosophical debate in that case... After all what is really the point of anything?

I've got to say I admire people that have the ability and ingenuity to do this kind of thing though - I'd probably have got bored after half an hour and gone off to do something else!

[Monty Python]

Here's one that actually works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=SeUMDY01u...

[paulrockliffe]

My first thought is it's running on air only, there isn't any ignition system. But it could be compression ignition maybe? Don't know if that's possible, but I'd guess not.

Either way, if I'd built something that beautiful, I wouldn't be putting any dirty liquids through it!

[AndrewIC]

Superb, I wonder if this is the same guy who was on a Clarkson program a few years ago who built a fully working model of an old Ferrari racer!?

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

[Fire99]

Tallow said:

Fair point, but I guess we're bordering on a philosophical debate in that case... After all what is really the point of anything?

I've got to say I admire people that have the ability and ingenuity to do this kind of thing though - I'd probably have got bored after half an hour and gone off to do something else!

Probably best we save the 'meaning of life' chat for another time. I'm not sure i've had enough tea for that one.

Yeah no doubt you need a LOT of patience for such a project. Extremely pretty little thing (as engines go)

[EarlOfHazard]

Mr Gear said:

Beautiful. But I can't tell if it is burning fuel or just running off compressed air. I think the latter.

No lubricating system
No piston rings
No gaskets

I'd presume compressed air as well. Nice piece of work though !!!

[hairykrishna]

The little compressed air one leaves me a bit cold. The one from the Ferrari model is a thing of beauty though. I think, for me, to be a 'working model engine' it needs to burn fuel.

[Turbo Harry]

AndrewIC said:

Superb, I wonder if this is the same guy who was on a Clarkson program a few years ago who built a fully working model of an old Ferrari racer!?

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

That is very impressive, but I wonder at what stage of the process did he start thinking "But for the want of a small incremental cost in materials, I could have built one I could drive"!