fossil_digger
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Date: March 14, 2010 06:24AM
V8 leaf blower
PW
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Date: March 14, 2010 07:36AM
V4 old timer
Mrkim
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Date: March 14, 2010 12:46PM
Good guesses but, not quite.
Here's a hint: it's a powerplant for a really hi-tech gadget
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 14/03/2010 01:11PM by Mrkim.
ph
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Date: March 14, 2010 01:59PM
Looks like a 'beetle' motor.
Mrkim
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Date: March 14, 2010 02:46PM
I haddn seen the new Beetle engines but the original 4cyls they used were "pancake" flat 4s like the older Porches, BMW bike motors or the most recent use of this design in Subarus. But, I'd hardly lump a Beetle in a high tech gadget category
SkullandChains
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Date: March 14, 2010 03:44PM
Can I phone a friend?
fossil_digger
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Date: March 14, 2010 04:06PM
Rousch bar stool
BlahX3
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Date: March 14, 2010 09:02PM
Martin Jetpack V4 engine
Mrkim
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Date: March 15, 2010 12:08AM
That's right Blah, now johnny tell him what he's won
Onyma
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Date: March 15, 2010 03:53PM
That's an impressive little engine they have designed there. I'm sure there could be a lot of other applications for that little power plant.
Mrkim
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Date: March 15, 2010 06:27PM
Lookin at that exhaust manifold looks like a helluva challenge to have made it at all. Lotsa tight bends and toppin it off with a 4-into-1 X-design crossover/collector before it finally exhausts, WoW, that would be tricky
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Onyma
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Date: March 15, 2010 07:10PM
I was thinking that was the intake? I thought the lower pipe loops up to the center of the X from the bottom side and the splits out to the four intakes. The black runners on the ousides were the exhaust manifolds? I debated back and forth on it though. You're right, nasty bit of work to fabricate that piece!
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Mrkim
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Date: March 15, 2010 11:08PM
Without more detail it's kinda hard to say, could be either I guess. I know it would be backwards from most accepted intake/exhaust routing for the exhaust to exit from the center of the engine. The reason I thought the chromed looking manifold was the exhaust is it kinda looks like there's a fuel rail attached to the black manifold. But that could be some type of EGT too, so
Onyma
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Date: March 15, 2010 11:31PM
I saw the rail on the "exhaust" side too and wondered if it was fuel or EGT. Maybe it is exhaust and they put a fuel rail on it to shoot some sweet flames out of the bottom of the jetpack! Now THAT would be a sight
Another reason the big manifold thing could be exhaust is that all that curly piping would make for roughly equal length runners... but what an ass backwards way to bring the 4 of them together (from what can be seen here anyhow). The pulses are running straight into each other.
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Mrkim
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Date: March 16, 2010 01:50AM
Yep, I can't see that thing being an efficient set up for an exhaust or an intake though it would problee make a better intake design than exhaust.
Ever toyed with the idea of a basically backwards exhaust manifold for an intake with the throttle body mounting at the end of the collector? Mitsu makes one for the 2000+ 2.4s. 'Course they did it half assed from the factory with a pinched to hell tubing arrangement at the collector but that was the 1st intake mani I ever saw like it .... and I like the idea
