V-12s: when size doesn't matter

jaybird · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:43 am

http://www.wimp.com/tiniestengine/

Too cool. How awesome would it be to mount this in a large scale RC Mustang?

The Inspector · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:29 am

Yeah, neat and one heck of an engineering and technical in scale accomplishment, but it's powered by compressed air, no igntion, no plugs, no plug wires. YOUTUBE (for those in the South, that would be Y'allTube) is full of smaller scale engines that do run from TBC (teeny block Chevies) to flathead Fords, but no water cooling passages so limited run time unless you run straight alcohol, in which case, the engine never warms up, that' why TA/FC and TA/D crew chiefs spray the injector with PAM @ the pre stage point to stop injector plate ice ups.

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:19 pm

Yeah!

DoraNineFan · **Joined:** Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:37 pm **Posts:** 672

It's been a while since I looked at this project, but there seems to be more castings available now. I'm wondering when one will show up in an R/C Mustang.

Buyer does final assembly:
http://www.quarterscalemerlin.com/

maxum96 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:04 pm

Around 2000, I was at the Gillespie air show in El Cajon, CA. There was a guy there casting approximately 1/4 scale Merlins. He had one that he'd run without a supercharger. The display said he was working on a supercharger. I don't know what happened to that project.

tankbarrell · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:02 am

This is much more impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xe1LL1I ... er&list=UL

B 25 C · **Joined:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:05 pm **Posts:** 166

No in the South it would be YouTube. Were are not all rednecks.

The Inspector wrote:

Yeah, neat and one heck of an engineering and technical in scale accomplishment, but it's powered by compressed air, no igntion, no plugs, no plug wires. YOUTUBE (for those in the South, that would be Y'allTube) is full of smaller scale engines that do run from TBC (teeny block Chevies) to flathead Fords, but no water cooling passages so limited run time unless you run straight alcohol, in which case, the engine never warms up, that' why TA/FC and TA/D crew chiefs spray the injector with PAM @ the pre stage point to stop injector plate ice ups.

b29flteng · **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:47 am

Years ago I went to an Aircraft Engine Historical Society convention and some fellow from England brought the block of a 1/4 scale Napier Saber engine he was building. He ran a machine shop and was doing it in his spare time. I never heard any more about it. THAT would be an interesting video!

DoraNineFan · **Joined:** Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:37 pm **Posts:** 672

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Years ago I went to an Aircraft Engine Historical Society convention and some fellow from England brought the block of a 1/4 scale Napier Saber engine he was building. He ran a machine shop and was doing it in his spare time. I never heard any more about it. THAT would be an interesting video!

I believe that's the same fellow who is running the 1/5 Merlin in the video above. The AEHS website had pictures of his Sabre project, but I have never seen any information or video that it was finished and/or ran.

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