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Thread Author: Robin O'Reliant Replies: 13
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New Fri 4 Feb 11 21:19 
 Micro V8 Engine - Robin O'Reliant
I want one for my Scalextric -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2cCYrqq6fU&feature=related
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New Fri 4 Feb 11 21:31 
 Micro V8 Engine - Focusless
Neat, but the tubes supplying the compressed air are going to be a bit of a nuisance. I'd like to see one running on petrol...
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New Fri 4 Feb 11 21:35 
 Micro V8 Engine - Old Navy
How about this one.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mutb7KgA9NM&feature=related
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New Fri 4 Feb 11 21:37 
 Micro V8 Engine - Focusless
Now you're talking! Might be a bit of a handful on the Scalextric track, but impressive none the less.
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New Sat 5 Feb 11 10:17 
 Micro V8 Engine - Chris S
I heard a rumour that back in the 1960s or 70s a Japanese motorcycle manufacturer developed a V8 125cc engine to get around some regulations.

Does anybody know if there is any truth in it?
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New Sat 5 Feb 11 11:24 
 Micro V8 Engine - Robin O'Reliant
Honda had a six cylinder 250 GP bike in the sixties, the RC166. Moto Guzzi put a V8 in a 500 ten years before that, never heard of a 125 V8 though.
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New Sat 5 Feb 11 12:56 
 Micro V8 Engine - Iffy
...Honda had a six cylinder 250 GP bike in the sixties...

I wonder how long the stroke was?

Each piston must have vibrated rather than go up and down.

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New Sat 5 Feb 11 11:35 
 Micro V8 Engine - NortonES2
Excellent link! ON: you might have seen the V12-makers website with Lancaster and Merlin footage? tinyurl.com/y9g4m34
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New Sat 5 Feb 11 11:48 
 Micro V8 Engine - Old Navy
Thanks N, I hadn't seen that. Excellent Lancaster film.
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New Sat 5 Feb 11 13:05 
 Micro V8 Engine - DP
If you want a pint sized V12, make it a quarter scale model of the finest one ever built. :-)

dynamotive.netfirms.com/merlin/
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New Sat 5 Feb 11 13:39 
 Micro V8 Engine - Robin O'Reliant
I wonder what would be the smallest multi (4 cylinders or more) IC engine one could practically make, and how small could a diesel go?
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New Sat 5 Feb 11 14:14 
 Micro V8 Engine - bathtub tom
>>how small could a diesel go?

I had a model aeroplane 2-stroke diesel, 0.075cc Merlin IIRC.

Then the small glow-plug engines came along.
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New Sat 5 Feb 11 14:17 
 Micro V8 Engine - Bellboy
chap i know is right into model helicopter flying and these piston engines are so last century when a battery can spin an electric motor at 30,000 revs a minute and take up the space of a finger nail

frightening i find it
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New Sat 5 Feb 11 17:00 
 Micro V8 Engine - VxFan
Here are some good examples too. Someone sent them to me via email a while ago. Been meaning to post them.

www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/

www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Root.htm

www.weberprecision.com/

www.engine-museum.com/

www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Ingersol.htm

www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Colonna.htm

www.colespowermodels.com/engines.htm

www.wemeshow.com/

www.nvbackflow.com/engines/challenger.htm

www.oregongears.org/

www.moyermade.com/

www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Conley.htm

www.conleyprecision.com/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mutb7KgA9NM

www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/HowellV4.htm

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