Hand-Made Mini V12
 

Was bored so I thought I'd post a cool video I found.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fd8_1321653527

Interesting video and one talented craftsman.

Wow, that's impressive! So slick. At first I thought you meant a V12 put into like a Mini Cooper.

How many horsepower? :D

These are always so cool to watch. Embedded version:

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I love stuff like this. There's another guy that built a fully functional miniature scale Ferrari, engine runs and the gears all work etc.

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holy shit 7 speed dual clutch gearbox in lego... wow.

Now that mini v12 was worth 10mins of my time!

I just showed my 6yr old boy the Lego 911 and he won't stop asking where can we buy one Dad. That Lego 911 is unbelievable. Great post.

WOW that engine is inceredible. That craftmanship is amazing. It's sad because people like that are a dying breed :(
I am LITERALY speechless.
Amazing

Yeah that's the sad, sad truth. Seriously those ppl need to live longer and have dozens of student to teach... hell, I'll be his first student! :bow:

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He starts the car up at 2:15 mark, not a bad way to spend 20,000 hours...

All of those are mind boggeling, truly amazing craftsmanship.

wow amazing! quick question kind of off topic. But what determines the rate in which the pistons move in the cylinder and the pattern in which they combust in? I hope you understand my question. This is all too amazing.

That was def worth watching!

Very cool. That's a lot of man-hours of labor!

It's based on the design of the crankshaft. Ideally the crankpins are offset to where power is transmitted to the crank evenly throughout an entire 360 degree revolution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crankshaft

I'm no expert on the matter, maybe someone can go into more detail...

the dude that built the engine had to be german...... i kid i kid that was amazing. my chief came up to yell at me for watching video's at work and just got sucked in to watching it.

He probably is German..

Anything that small I'd be losing all of the pieces for it before I could get the engine together lol

I've know about this other guy for a while: http://www.ronsmodelengines.com/

Keep thinking one of these days I would like to give the Offy a go...

In this thread all videos are worth to watch once. Thanks for posting these.