Haynes Build Your Own Internal Combustion Engine

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The Machine Works Haynes V8 Model Engine Kit is an educational model building kit of a functional, motorised model V8 internal combustion engine that car and engine loving adults/parents will just loving helping the kids assemble and then learn more about how an engine works. Miscellaneous vids Cybertruck towing feat debunked Giorgetto Giugiaro, legendary car designer Video: On track with the Aston DBX707 › More Other video here. From Haynes, the famous makers of vehicle service manuals, comes a range of detaled working engine models. We found the instructions, like Haynes’s car manuals, clearly and concisely written, with essential diagrams illustrating each stage of the building process. Honda's next gen electric saloon Kia displays PBV future vans at the 2024 CES JLR offers free security upgrade for old Rangies › More here.

Was well worth the money, in view of the time and concentration involved with building this model engine. The model engine looks great on display, housed in its plastic transparent casing but add 3x AA batteries and you will now have a V8 engine where the spark plugs light up, the pistons move up and down and the crankshaft rotates. Many small parts (screws and valve components in particular) so it needs to be put together on a tray.With mine, and it sounds like most others you wouldn't want it running for long because of the horrible noise of the motor. The temptation is to open with a crack about it being just like assembling a BMC "B series" 4cyl with a Haynes manual - woeful instructions about a poorly made product leading to tears.

It doesn’t require any special tools or even glue to assemble and once it is fully assembled, the battery-powered engine model can be turned on to reveal moving parts, lights and sounds. The model is fun to put together and the kit contains all the tools you'll need and over 100 parts to assemble the working model. We did make a couple of mistakes towards the end, however: the rocker shafts had somehow been assembled the wrong way around on one bank of cylinders, and the ignition timing was surprisingly fiddly and required some initiative to sort out. It requires several hours of your time to assemble but is great fun and the interactive app adds to the fun and is very educational.Although the instructions for assembling the valve train quickly bought back teenage memories of being covered in muck and swearing at an incomprehensible Haynes manual it made perfect sense once I threw the manual aside and just assembled the damn thing from first principles - P14 if you're wondering. Consider instead the Build Your Own V8 Engine kit from Haynes, a publisher best known for its car maintenance manuals. Disclosure: I received this item for free for the purposes of writing an honest and impartial review.