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| SPiN Racing:
The pics in there are like a Where's Waldo at first! I was looking at things going.. hmmmmm neat.. wonder what these are..... then I saw some tiny little man next to one of the parts and had to go back and look closer at them!!! I have never in my life even concieved of an engine as large as those. I have been on ships.. WWII ships and things.. but none of them had engines I percieved to be that big. I coulda been a dumb kid and not grasped it... But man oh man that is a BIG engine.. and crank. The tooling... is astoundingly large... |
| bogstandard:
Spin, This is the largest one, at this time. http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/ A little large to fit in your Mazda. John |
| SPiN Racing:
5 MILLION FtLBs of torque.... Thats just crazy!!!! :lol: Although looking at the engine it appears to have been well thought out. Exceeding 50 percent BSFC is pretty damn good. Amazingly huge engine. I am going to have to make a side trip to a big port one of these days when Im in the vicinity of one. Port of Tampa I dont think is big enough... Miami, or Cape Canaveral possibly. Jacksonville possibly. |
| DavesWimshurst:
Perhaps a smaller engine, This is the thimble engine designed by J Senft. I couldn't find a suitable thimble so spun one in copper. The bore and stroke are each 1/16 inch. The piston is brass as I had trouble drilling a 0.020 inch hole for the crank pin in the specified stainless steel. The vibration causes it to turn on it's stand, otherwise it's hard to see that it's running. Dave |
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