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Water Cooled Drake Harley Davidson Powered Midget Racer

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These so seldom come up for sale, I wanted to be sure to bring it to your attention, it's a midget racer powered by a Harley Davidson knucklehead with Drake water cooled cylinders. These are such a neat car and engine combination. As I mentioned in another post: Dale Drake ... took a Harley Davidson Knucklehead engine and installed water cooled cylinders. The result was an … [Read more...]

Grail Engine – a Clean Multi Fuel Two Stroke

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Just because 2 stroke engines were set aside in production vehicles, it doesn't mean development stopped, in recent years there has been increasing attention paid to these powerful and compact engines and the Grail Engine is an interesting example. It's a multi fuel, variable compression, highly efficient 2 stroke with built in supercharging and intercooling. The Grail … [Read more...]

Building Your Basic Gasoline Diesel Engine

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Most of you know, internal combustion engines are generally divided into two types: spark ignition and compression ignition, usually running on gasoline when we use a spark and diesel fuel when we don't, but a compression ignition gasoline engine? How does that work? Even more to the point, why bother? Engineers believe they may be able to achieve as much as 50 percent better … [Read more...]

The Hossack Engine – a Square Piston Two Stroke

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Ever hear of Norman Hossack? Of course you have. He designed the Hossack suspension, often confused with the far more basic girder front suspension and adapted by BMW under the name Duolever, but the Hossack engine? What's that? Well, it's just your average square piston two stroke, that's all. When I received an email from Norman, I read through his description of the … [Read more...]

Russell Sutton Radial Start Up Shows Promise and Required Changes

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The long awaited start up of Russell Sutton's 9 cylinder radial engine has finally come about, as these videos show and it sounds just like a proper radial should. He's made some changes and additions since we last saw it, having to do with some plumbing for lubrication and the addition of a system for running the engine on LPG or propane, detailed in video one. However, as … [Read more...]

Russell Sutton’s Honda Radial Engine is Close to Initial Start Up

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Russell Sutton's 9 cylinder radial engine based on the Honda XR600 is one of the most complicated home built engine projects we've seen. These latest photos just in from Ian Drysdale, show the progress Russell's made since the last video. You'll notice the heads are on, the exhaust is on, oil lines in place, and according to Ian, we're going to see a start up in the very near … [Read more...]