After a while of not wrinting any post I finally found a minute to show some pictures of the engine I am working on. This is a single cylinder test engine, which will be used to test the design of the V8 cylinders. The design is almost 100% complete but I have already made some of the main parts.
I will be posting more often from now on. The next two pictures are from the engine head - quite a lot of machining!
These is the engine head rockers bracket. There are two per cylinder. It is quite an original design but I do not think they will make it to the final V8 engine design.
This is the main engine parts put together. The cam cover is missing.
This is one of the split bearings. It is quite hard to machine due to the tang for locking the position in rotation. It is all made on the milling machine, using a rotary table.It is accurate to 0.01 mm in all dimensions, which is quite an achievement bearing in mind my equipment.
You can see I also do drawings for every single part to keep all the details for when I start designing the V8 engine in a few months.
