01-31-2014, 10:01 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Heath,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: Shelby American CSX 8000 Slab Side series, 289 High Pro , Eight Stack EFI system ,TKO500
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Tiny Diesel Engine
A guy built this 12 cylinder diesel engine that runs and fits in the palm of a hand.
Don't know if he was an engineer or machinist or just a very talented hobbyist, but it took him over 2,000 hours from conception to finished product.
Counting his labor and material its cost is just over $100,000.00 and all that for a conversation piece.
I think it belongs in a museum for unusual accomplishments. This guy made everything at home on his lathe and drill press.
It took 1220 hours just to make the 261 pieces: 12 individual cylinder heads,
TINY rods and pistons, dual "underhead" cams with pushrods to rockers in the heads. And he did the break-in runs using an electric drill driving the crankshaft.
Really amazing.
The world's tiniest V12 engine. [VIDEO]
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