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As long as there isn't a steel shredder or smelting plant processing them into razor blades that means PARTS!8-)

Wait until the "proud new owner" shows up on the forum...

You're right... Wishful thinking on my part.

I'm thinking a better system than this.. http://youtu.be/jXeTw11fVpU

I was searching the forums and found this... any word on how the experiment worked out? I'm looking at what a system would be that could process crude and if the methods could be applied to other waste stock.

Be quiet! Darwin has so few methods left to cull the human herd...

Nice job!

In my machine tool class we built miniature radials as semester projects... non-functional desk cranked v twins. I kept thinking about the nitromethane model airplane engines I used as a kid and couldn't help think how easy it would be to swap out the materials for ones that could be made...

This guy says he DID IT with a stock block... and that he wasn't the only one. Considering the pictures, I'm tempted to believe him.

It's a bigger version of the old ford power steering.... just like early mustangs. Funky. Did you change the castor at all? Most non-PS axles ran positive as a way to make steering easier in the old stuff. It always felt squirrely to me...

To see if we can. Maybe we find out some new methods, maybe not. Either way, we have fun and learn more about engine design. If we just wanted the easy/rational way to do anything, we would all be driving 100hp Focus types whenever we were not hauling things, not drink, chase women, or blow...

Boiling water on the metal and a chunk of dry ice in the center of the dent. Works wonders on hail pocks and such. best for small creases.

I have much more modest goals for my engine... just enough to run 75mph on the highway without stressing her. I may never run her that fast, but I want to be able to.

Patracy is right. We could.. but can that Cummins run on waste oil, methanol, and/or propane? It would be great if so, and I honestly think it's possible, if done right, for many engines to operate with such flexibility. The vast bulk of effort is required to build the block, heads, support...

:drool: After reading about tractor pulling engines built on these bottom ends living happily at 4000 RPM with just a balance job, I'd be tempted. Let me finish paying off this truck and my overpriced college education first, and I might get on that. Sounds like fun! One other thought, that...

If you can't find any in time, take some dark blue gels and layer them... 3-4... with 1 or 2 basic reds and put the stack over the lamp.

I suppose those of us who are EITs with over 10 years experience... mine is automotive as a licensed tech and ASE cert partsman... and background training in welding and machine tool probably don't fit that mold.

Ahh... I see what you mean. I was just thinking that if we changed the piston to match the existing chamber, and tailored the piston with the bowl in the correct "target" location we could minimize most changes required to the head side of the chamber. Nothing says the quench zone has to be...

True. The diesel would have to be injected much later so the flame propagation and pressure rise fell in the same curve.

Maybe not, the timing is easy with electronic engines. The chambers aren't that complex. And you don't need a spray pattern as much as a big ugly stream of fuel. So what are we talking? Pistons, injectors, programming and a fuel density sensor?