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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
Building a Radial EngineBy Bill Chauvin1613 E. Park Avenue, Houma, Louisiana 70360 Hello Engine Lovers: When the fish are not biting and you have nothing to do, why not retire to your work shop and build a radial engine? I started this motor about one year ago and after working on it between other jobs, I have finally completed it. It is a 5-cylinder radial and-yes, you guessed right-I used 5 model 72D Maytag cylinders. The case is aluminum, the crankshaft I made of steel, the connecting rods of brass. I am using one buzz coil to fire the plugs with a homemade distributor. There is neither vacuum or pressure in the case so I am using fuel injection to the case. The cylinders are spaced 72 degrees apart and will fire 5 times per revolution. Naturally it will use 5 times more fuel, but it will have 5 times more torque. The motor is 14" in diameter and the case... 802 of 817 characters shown.
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