Motor heads - *tiny* V12 Makes 68 HP Per Liter

[george graves]

If you like motors and engineering, you'll appreciate the work that what went into this:

http://jalopnik.com/339153/beautiful-hand+built-air+cooled-v12-makes-68-hp-per-liter

[BlueIX]

Thats pretty sick.

[rThor432]

That's pretty amazing. I like seeing little novelty motors like this.

[dvs909]

That sounds Wicked. I'd put it in a massive RC truck ( :
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[SchnellerVert]

To bad it will never sound like a Merlin. Oh the howl or better yet a nice big twin radial Wasp engine.

[PiercedE30]

This hand-built V12 engine, the fruit of hobbyist Ralf Drendel's labor, clocks in at a mere 87 cc's of displacement and cranks out a whopping mere 6 horsepower.

Holy crap.

[devonjordan]

THats pretty sweet right there.

[Tavern Gnome]

Wow! He must have a LOT of time into that thing.

[drifty340i]

how cool does that sound

[LivingLegend06]

Tuning all those carbs would be a bitch. I wonder how it compares power wise to the flat 12 in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUMDY01uUA

I would really like to build a small engine like that one day. It would be fuel injected and forced induction though.

[Baxter]

i respect the work that goes into projects like this but if youre going to put that much time and effort into it then why the hell miniaturize it to the point where its basically useless. that guy could of made a 5.0L V12 that you could put in a real car and use. instead he has a little noise maker that sits on his desk.

[Coco Savage]

interesting

[mtechnik]

Verry intriguing

[GarrettM]

There was a vid floating around on Google Video with Jeremy Clarkson and some guy who build a fully functional Ferrari model. The transmission was functional and he does a burn out with it and it has a V12. It was fucking amazing. I can't find it for the life of me though.
EDIT! GOT IT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f6YxAvcxhU

[gearheadE30]

HOLY CRAP!!! that's amazing ;)