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thats an awesome looking book :D definitely worth tracking down :P Have you tried your piston out in an engine? how does it perform? :)

Hi gbritnell If you are interested in transferring you plans to CAD drawings, i would be willing to help :) i am always looking to Find projects to improve my CAD skills. Only cost to you is sharing your plans with me, will do it completely free for you.

hi guys, again thanks for all the replies :D just as a reminder, i am in no way trying to recreate the F1 piston in a scale engine with the same type of revving and speeds and everything, all i am trying to do is find a more efficient alternative to what is conventionally used. such as...

thanks, i am only 21 and start my career on Friday :D from there i plan to save up and get my first lathe or milling machine within a year a 2. Once i get that, nothing will be able to hold me back as i build up a nice workshop and begin messing around with various engines and other projects iv...

niels thats exactly the type of idea i had, nothing overly engineered, but reduces the weight and friction of the piston, allows for better response on revving the engine and possibly better performance too. have you at all tried incorporating that design into an engine as of yet?

Hi guys thanks for all the replies and criticism, its always valued by such a novice as me. :) would just like to point out that i am aware that something engineered to the level of the F1 piston, is waaaaay overboard for a scale model V8. I was just using that as a reference point to ask the...

you are 100% correct in saying that this is purely a performance 'mod' piston. But in recent times, similiar designs (not as narrow) are being used in production performance cars purely for the fact that they weigh less and have less friction. wildun i dont plan to take shortcuts to achieve...

I am yet to build my first anything on a lathe or milling machine, but am a super technically minded young individual driven by mechanics and general engineering. At the moment i am busy designing out a long term project for one day when i have the experience and money to invest in such a...

hi keith would love to see/hear this beauty running!! :) hows the build coming?

Thanks for the reply peter, would it be possible to see your ignition setup? and a list of the parts you used. I don't really understand the electronic ignitions and not 100% sure of how they work or what components they comprise of. Cameron

Nice delivery ^^. . . have fun 'playing' ;D

thanks art for the reply just trying to understand the lost foam way of doing things, so using dry sand, would i be able to just take the sand out of my garden sift it for any larger stones etc and use that? without coating the foam in anything?

so iv had a look at that "build your idea" site checked out his lost foam casting that he did, and have a question, did he use green sand for it? or can normal sand be used in that method?

Hi guys i came across the gingery books (whole 7 series) and was wondering if anybody has built the machines completed? and used them? If you have or know of anybody that has, how easy is it? and how accurate are they? Cam

thanks gus :) need a lathe and milling machine before i start anything so will still be a while ^^

any more updates? :)

i know ^^ but would just be so awesome to have a nice large sized rc truck with a realistic looking v8 in it. . . cam

Well I wouldn't use a pin, more like a brass rod (rather thick, like 5mm) just think it would be more accurate and precise

iv got a few plans for various engines, ranging from single cylinder 2 strokes to 9 cylinder rotary engines, and even a few v8 plans, which is the ones i want to attempt, will do it as my first engine build, perhaps a stupid thing on my side ^^ but will still be a few years before i even get a...

if it really is that 'simple' i was thinking of a design using a cam to push pins against the contact points, working much in the way like the cam pushes the pins to open/close the valves. . . would this work?