The Tinyest V8s Ever!

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Look at these little 1:8th and 1:9th scale beasts!

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The best bit about them? They even Run and so do the superchargers!!:D

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5321100141757542472

And another

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4GkAfWz-Yk
 
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Theres a vid floating around somewhere of Jeremy Clarkson interviewing an Italian guy who made an exact miniature replica of a ferrari, it was amazing stuff, gearstick, clutch, everything was downsized and fully functional!
 
Yeah I seen that, fully functioning hand built V12 as well but seriously, what is the point? only a 6 year old could drive it, should have built a full size replica! :)
 
Vibez said:
Yeah I seen that, fully functioning hand built V12 as well but seriously, what is the point? only a 6 year old could drive it, should have built a full size replica! :)
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6 year old? The gearknob was the size of an ear stud, no way could ANY human being fit in it!
 
Vibez said:
Yeah I seen that, fully functioning hand built V12 as well but seriously, what is the point? only a 6 year old could drive it, should have built a full size replica! :)
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engineering exercise, hobby, for the hell of it etc
 
yea but whats the horsepower per capacity? its an american V8 so I bet its utterly rubbish

</sarcastic rant>

very very cool, just need one sitting on your desk, bored? fire it up and have a play
 
thefullcollapse said:
i read somewhere about even smaller rotary engines :O

aparently they were being developed to power computers instead of using bateries :o
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Actually Mercedes was using something very similar to a rotary engine in their seatbelt pre-tensioners many years ago.

Just found this on Wikipedia:

Perhaps the most exotic use of the Wankel design is in the seat belt pretensioner system of some Mercedes-Benz cars and the Volkswagen New Beetle. In these cars, when deceleration sensors sense a potential crash, small explosive cartridges are triggered electrically and the resulting pressurized gas feeds into tiny Wankel engines which rotate to take up the slack in the seat belt systems, anchoring the driver and passengers firmly in the seat before any collision.
 
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