Worlds Smallest Supercharged V8 Engine

[shaggerz]

For those who haven't seen it, this site is pretty interesting

http://www.weberprecision.com/

[TheForgotten]

yeah I've seen them before. lok pretty well done if you ask me.
pity they don't actually run.....

[hakhawk]

"This page will describe the construction of a miniature eight cylinder engine I built in my home machine shop over the past few years. I still have a few small details left to finish, but the engine is running and almost complete."

seems its running, but what scale is it?

[TheForgotten]

really should read better huh?

[DavoTheGreat]

Check out the video on that site - the idle sound is awesome! And it spins up nicely too when the guy revs it.

[itsonlyme]

I want one:my:

[maxy0987]

it looks a little unstable lol, like its gonna go pop or something if he revs it for more than 0.02 of a second, dunno, guess he doenst wanna break it, but still, id rather a real engine :P

[Doctor Bob]

imagine the rc car that would make!
Rob

[Wombat]

Anyone remember an episode of the TV show "Home Improvement" some years back when Tim the Toolman had a small V8 on the set of "Tool Time"? It was a small V8 made by some company (can't remember which one), and there was also one fitter to a 1/8 scale Cobra RC car on the table. It sounded fantastic when he fired it up...

[shaggerz]

lol just imagine the RC car you could put that in hey?

I wonder what sort of quarter mile times you could get...

I guess that would mean a miniature auto trans as well lol. Could be tough.

[MOTIV8]

Nice project and I bet the engines that he builds would go well in RC cars, boats and planes.

[ucwepn]

There was a bloke who made a complete miniature Ferrari it was either 1:10 or 1:8 scale with evry system in the car a working scaled down replica of the real thing. When I first saw it my mind was blown. The maker claims that if you had a tiny man to drive it, it would match the scale speed and handling of the real thing.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...3186&q=ferrari

[MikeVXSS]

wow. tahts is wicked. he needs to now clone 1:10 scale human to drive it. what a feat

[ucwepn]

Yep the mini ferrari is definately a work of art and very skillfully engineered. I think its better than this blokes little v8 by a mile.

[Hairy Eater]

well... i like to give this bloke 10 out of 10 for trying, building, most of all sharing with everyone.....

[ucwepn]

I agree full points to the V8 guy, to build and fabricate an entire engine by hand would be very difficult indeed.

But my fav is still the ferrari.

[shaggerz]

He's built one more miniature V8 than me

[Hairy Eater]

wow... imagine buying an old BMW bike... throw out the engine.... and bolt in a V8..... it would sound AWESOME.............

[bns-sticky]

All I can say is

BE FARKED!! That ferrari is the coolest.

[goldencommodore]

that looks awesome. any idea on its length, wide and height dimensions. he should try a turboed version next!!