Hi everyone, I'm one of the new guys here and joined because I have a potentially dumb question to ask:
What about building your own motor from scratch?
I saw this guys website:
Secret Files
and that coupled with a weekend of watching The World's Fastest Indian has me thinking I could do something similar. I figure most people will say something along the lines of:
1) No, because you need to know what you're doing.
2) No, because it's not practical.
3) You need access to a machine shop/a Ph.D. in engineering, etc.
Let's throw out most reasonable logic. As long as you have the primary parts of an internal combustion engine (ICE), and the interior cubic volumes are the same as say something comparable to what's being attempted, is that all thats needed? What I'm thinking is this: alot of engines and motors I see at my local junkyard are damaged beyond saving as a whole. But what if you took the crank and piston out of an engine and put it in a housing with the same interior dimensional volumes? Say you make a crank housing out of some large tubing or piping and have some pillow blocks to support the drive shaft, and made the head out of some pipe with some cooling rings and bolt that onto the crank housing...shouldn't that all work? I know there's a few mechanical variables that I haven't accounted for, but more or less isn't my theory sound?
What about building your own motor from scratch?
I saw this guys website:
Secret Files
and that coupled with a weekend of watching The World's Fastest Indian has me thinking I could do something similar. I figure most people will say something along the lines of:
1) No, because you need to know what you're doing.
2) No, because it's not practical.
3) You need access to a machine shop/a Ph.D. in engineering, etc.
Let's throw out most reasonable logic. As long as you have the primary parts of an internal combustion engine (ICE), and the interior cubic volumes are the same as say something comparable to what's being attempted, is that all thats needed? What I'm thinking is this: alot of engines and motors I see at my local junkyard are damaged beyond saving as a whole. But what if you took the crank and piston out of an engine and put it in a housing with the same interior dimensional volumes? Say you make a crank housing out of some large tubing or piping and have some pillow blocks to support the drive shaft, and made the head out of some pipe with some cooling rings and bolt that onto the crank housing...shouldn't that all work? I know there's a few mechanical variables that I haven't accounted for, but more or less isn't my theory sound?