Show us your projects!

[ROOD]

We didn’t do a “round the room introduction” this year, but a common theme I’ve noticed is many people have projects.  I’ll start…  Exomotive Exocet:

It’s further along than this photo, I just don’t have any complete vehicle photos of it’s current state of affairs.

[WELLS]

Here’s the engine that I built for my pulling truck that I just finished this year and the chassis it goes in.

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[TARLETON]

Not a car… but it certainly has an engine. This is my current project. She’s a 27′ tug with a 2-53 detroit diesel inboard. All 47horses will push her at about 6 knots. This is a supercharged uniflow 2-stroke engine and consumes about 1 gallon per hour at cruise.

[TARLETON]

Neat Geoff, tell us about your planned powertrain.

[ROOD]

Just getting it running with the standard Miata powertrain for now.  Future plans include building a Honda K24 with a stretch goal of 350 hp.  Been applying ED1 calculations to the K-series engines for main bearing oil film thicknesses, piston speed/acceleration evaluations of the rods/pistons etc.  I applied the ED2 calculations to the valvetrain and measured a set of cams to do some very rough valve speed/acceleration calculations as well.  Doing a lot of it to reinforce the lessons learned.

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