Ferrari 430 engine and the Enzo V12 engine

[rewalston]

I like, I like

Rusty

[retunga]

Well Update time !!!

At last I have now completed the 12 pistons, conrods and cylinder bores

The next step is the block parts like the 7 big ends and some other parts to hold it all together, and then the crank.

Here is some photos of the finished parts:





ENJOY

R

[rewalston]

where did the "LIKE" button go :D

[Zakopious]

They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be
happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!

[retunga]

lol :-) I have already reserved my room, when I am finished this build I plan on retiring in the funny farm

[rewalston]

I already live on the funny farm so I'm set, bring it on :D

[retunga]

I bit of a sneak photo of where I am with the Engine. (crank)



At the moment I am busy figuring out and checking that everything is lining up, and also how I am going to assemble all of the parts to get the block together, at the moment I have had to do a bit space corrections in the block as the crank has come out a bit bigger than I designed so some shiming of the block bores is busy been worked out and the some jigs to assemble the crank is also been worked on.

I did a quick calc of how far I am and it works out to 21% which is fair as I am busy building the model I am also writing the instructions and doing small mods as I go along.

R

[mushroom]

Looks fantastic, what a build.

[retunga]

I have found the spacing problem, when one builds many of the same part any small size difference in any or all of the parts will show itself at the end of the day, between the crank shells and the conrods I have a 3-5mm error between the piston bores so, what I am having to do is make a 4mm paper shim that will fix the model, but at the same time when people build the model the error could bigger and smaller so the shimming is not a bad idea in getting the engine to work at the end of the day. it just mean that when I get the cyclinder head that I need to re-visit that part of the design, but that is quite some time down the road.
:-)
R

[retunga]

Well here is a few photos of the testing to get the shimming and spacing problems fixed, lucky yesterday was a public holiday so what better way to fix the problem.

What I found to be the best way to check for spacing problems was to pre-assemble the engine vertical way as below and get the conrods and cutaway opening both parallel and it worked.



closer view of the engine





So Now can start the gluing of the engine and it can now look like something othere than a 50+ parts in a box.


R