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March 3, 2009
Mini Muscle: Building Small Scale, Operational V-8 Engines
The engine shifts on its mounts as the eight cylinders explode to life, swallowing its 1.1 cubic inches of air and fuel, transforming it into single digit horsepower. Most of us probably assembled plastic model cars or planes of balsa wood and tissue paper as a child, then there's a select few who grew up to take things to the next level.
For street machine enthusiasts, that level could be creating every piece of a fully operational Chevy small block at 1/6th of its normal size complete with a Duntov cam and real Babbitt bearings for the crank. Jim Moyer's 327 is a fine example of how far you can take the detail.
For others, performance can't escape their obsession - even in model form. They engineer dual carb setups and superchargers to get the gains, not in horsepower but in overcoming technical issues of small-scale design.
Most of these projects are still done by pioneers who painstakingly craft every piece by hand. You might ask where you would even start with such an engine build...probably with a block of aluminum and a 3.5 inch lathe.
Log on to Sheline Direct and find small lathes and mills for making precision parts.
For street machine enthusiasts, that level could be creating every piece of a fully operational Chevy small block at 1/6th of its normal size complete with a Duntov cam and real Babbitt bearings for the crank. Jim Moyer's 327 is a fine example of how far you can take the detail.
For others, performance can't escape their obsession - even in model form. They engineer dual carb setups and superchargers to get the gains, not in horsepower but in overcoming technical issues of small-scale design.
Most of these projects are still done by pioneers who painstakingly craft every piece by hand. You might ask where you would even start with such an engine build...probably with a block of aluminum and a 3.5 inch lathe.
Log on to Sheline Direct and find small lathes and mills for making precision parts.
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