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Very impressive! One thing I wonder about is the displacement, given as 18 cc. The bore and stroke of a Chevy 327 appears to be 4.000" x 3.25. This works out to a total displacement in of 326.7256 cu. in. or 5.354 cc. 1/6 scale bore and stroke works out to .6666 x .5417. Doing the math this works out to 1.5126 cu. in. or 24.7873 cc. The bore and stroke he gives are each smaller at .600 x .487. I guess there must have been some physical limitations such as to the wall thickness of the cylinders, casting thicknesses, or some such which resulted in a significantly smaller displacement. He did get the bore x stroke ratio virtually spot on to the thousandth so it's obvious that even within the limitations of the engineering he tried to keep things accurate. Like I said, very impressive!

BTW the videos work fine for me too. Brmmmm, Brmmmmmm! (Or is it Buzzzzz, Buzzzzzz!?)

Edited by gbk1
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There's a group of guy's who build every conceiveable type of scale engine that runs. They have club's just like we do.

I get emals from a friend, that have these guy's at event's showing these things off, starting them up and running. Everything in cluding "FLATTIES", 4-banger's and sixes.

They sound just like the real thing :lol: . Very amazing :rolleyes:

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That's pretty amazing. Reminds of the guy who over the last 15 years or so built an exact replica of an entire Ferrari in 1/4 scale. Built and manufactured every component by hand, by himself!

Can't remember where I saw it though...

Edited by DR Dubois
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That's pretty amazing. Reminds of the guy who over the last 15 years or so built an exact replica of an entire Ferrari in 1/4 scale. Built and manufactured every component by hand, by himself!

Can't remember where I saw it though...

It was 1/3 and can be seen at Fine Art Models. It was also featured on an early Top Gear.

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Not that it's not a feat, but I am pretty sure, that a man named Charlie Ryder did one in 1/24th.

NOW that would be impressive, to see. :lol:

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