the insane visible v8.

[ferrarijoe]

This is crazy running around 7000 rpm. Judging by title took a while to figure it out.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?hd=1&v=kx_j1ixjxac

[unclescott58]

This is not the first time I've seen somebody do this with a Visiable V-8. I do have to question his way of measuring rpms. Watching that meter fluctuate up and down, giving different readings the way it did, did not come off very scientific to me. I also question, what is it acutally measuring? Interesting. But, not very convincing.

Scott

[Edsel-Dan]

I built a Powered one. I could barely keep it running at the battery pack level

without having the plastic pushrods bend and drop down into the oil pan!!

I wonder what he used in place of those kit parts!??
And what other parts did he replace??

[Guest]

The valve float is unreal! Is it a electric mother running it? It almost sounds like a real engine.

[Lunajammer]

I built a Powered one. I could barely keep it running at the battery pack level

without having the plastic pushrods bend and drop down into the oil pan!!

I wonder what he used in place of those kit parts!??

And what other parts did he replace??

X2. Having built one, these are exactly my questions.

[Maindrian Pace]

He must be running a visible 4 bolt main block and the visible forged plastic crank.

-MJS

[philo426]

They never run that well.I am sure it is heavily modified.

[Greg Myers]

Well, that "electric mother" runnin' it can prolly really kick out some real power.

[Draggon]

Looks like its using water or something with low viscosity for lubrication.

[jbwelda]

you gotta see this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL3D5uTHkf4

jb

[jbwelda]

on a similar note:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6WDwsdH_A0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJNaaMJsCHM

all worth a peek

jb

[unclescott58]

you gotta see this

jb

I'm surprised to see how tough these little buggers are.

Scott

[jbwelda]

no kidding. especially considering it was meant to be run with a puny little electric motor and here the guy is running it into the ground with a big torquey power drill. and the V8 at least really kept up pretty well. better than a lot of the motors in the other video!

jb