Here is an article by Alan Cathcart about the ultimate Garagista of the motorcycle world, John Britten. The engine isn't the most beautiful thing in the world, but the specs are considering he and his mates built the whole thing themselves. All the carbon and fiberglass layup for this bike was done by hand in his garage and shop. He built the wheels himself. One wonders what he may have accomplished if his life wasn't cut short by skin cancer.
Great read on the Britten! The engine/chassis set-up is pretty cool, especially the rear spring/damper.
Re: A shameless thread for the enginephiles
Posted: 18 Dec 2013, 20:08
by Pup
Lego car, Lego engine...
Re: A shameless thread for the enginephiles
Posted: 24 Dec 2013, 21:31
by Sombrero
Porsche was almost back in Le Mans in 2000 with that V-10 engine... It would have been something to see that Porsche LMP1 racing against the Audi R8 not yet FSI.
610cc Engine, Turbo Compound, Formula Student
by Gegov
This is my first model upload, I am a second year Mechanical engineering student and this is one of my left over engine design attempts, this is a very unfinished 610cc Turbo Compound engine for a small car ( also some bits are quite fictional - the cylinder cam valves controlled by electric motors ) . It took quite some time and its still work in progress.
I have been a user of Deviant art for many years now , but I never really had the guts ... and well the time to upload anything, so this is my first item. As you can probably tell from the image I am actually an Engineer by degree ( on going ) and I work using CAD packages ( this was done in solidworks ).
As for the engine in the picture, this is a custom 610cc 6 cylinder boxer turbo compound engine, yes a bit of a mouth full.
Re: A shameless thread for the enginephiles
Posted: 10 Jan 2014, 22:06
by CBeck113
So I finally got some of my pictures online, here are a few:
Offshore racing engines eh, you opened up a new world TC, this is totally insane;
Re: A shameless thread for the enginephiles
Posted: 11 Jan 2014, 13:40
by Manoah2u
xpensive wrote:
dat engine
Re: A shameless thread for the enginephiles
Posted: 11 Jan 2014, 14:09
by Manoah2u
i can't think of anything more awesome then giant ship engines. they're.....just awesome. they don't have to be technologically advanced. but man. there's something about a piston with 1 m diameter.
or giant engines as generators have some coolness too.
