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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Now you're talking! Might be a bit of a handful on the Scalextric track, but impressive none the less.
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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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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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...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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Excellent link! ON: you might have seen the V12-makers website with Lancaster and Merlin footage? tinyurl.com/y9g4m34
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Thanks N, I hadn't seen that. Excellent Lancaster film.
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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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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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>>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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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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