Supercharged home made Straight Eight by Desperate Dan Vid 2

[chuckbear1961]

I know Buick had a streight 8 , the scrap yard I worked at had one laying around

[uhfnutbar1]

go cart motor ? he he he

[aserta]

Nice, now build a car around it, something like a silver arrow

[cruton87]

You have to be kidding me, "anti-clockwise" @ :52....... where did you attend grammar school. Canada?

[fredlllll]

sounds like a lawnmower XD

[thebrian266]

how hp does this put out ? thats a cool engine

[MrFlyboy400]

look like a bad ass skate board.nice job on the project

[ibelieve2012FTW]

now put that in a SMART. and you blow the copers with ease. its like hey look at me im doing 60 mp/h looking at the throtle ooo00OOpPPPSSSsszz i doing 120 mp/h

[sjpro1]

inlines run to smooth to be lumpy even with a pretty big cam they sound like a mild v8

[foxmustang302]

thats awesome. 

[DRIFTINGIN808]

kinda looks like u took 2 single cam honda engines and smashed them together,( though i know you didnt) just sayin

[drbelli]

nice job!

look @ 1;54, u did a front rig wheel burnout!!!

[EMDSD14R]

wow man u got amazing talent..i would love to build my own engine...i don't do tht but i build my own custom model trains..most are fantasy models tht never exisited and a good bit of the time u have to make ur own parts...it can be a pain but the end result is well worth the headaches..are u planing to use this engine in a car? great job

[trappersgetmorebeav]

kinda reminds me of an old fighter plane, awesome job, thumbs up from a bike freak in ks.

[themathis87]

wow look when he hits the throttle it has shitty throttle response even for forced induction

[lemonprofit]

It has some knocking there.. But great work!!

[jhowe67]

@999desperate to get that "real lumpy like a drag engine" sound, you need to stroke the engines. which basically consists of boring the cylinders out about +12CI-30Ci, and giving it a longer piston stroke.

[Gd0g427]

1:25 trim your nail! thats fuckin gross

[b1gzdu32]

lawn boy sound lmao

[rustyATV]

This needs a scratch built car to go along with it.

[BoatManBeats]

Very cool style to it~!

Love the design! What a project... some mean working hands there. ;]

[MrJerryk092975]

WOW.....That's bad ass

[karazze0285]

i think its cool just to have the knowledge of it all, also youve probablly have other knowledge bottom line a human that does somthing exiciting besides bullshit stuff great vid

[DaKattila]

well.. "dear santa"

[WickedTornado]

Hats off to 'ya man....you are one hell of a wrench. Congrats on your project. And yeah, I'll bet you did cuss that thing more than a few times during the build. What an incredible piece!

[ajrhotrodz]

are you going to put that in something?

[PowerSports420]

PROPS!!!

[alexcheetah79]

needs to be in a car.

[bevelsz]

no replacement for displacement

[TheEngineProfessor]

That would make one bad ass go kart

[catfishakaAMC]

And what vehicle would you put that in?

[Tjwardx]

sound is between a v8 and an inline 6 well more on the inline 6 side but still

[26yearstoorion]

Loose the chain drive and use a toothed belt, other than that beautiful!  ( i build weird stuff too :-) *there are loads of cheap ones available with sprockets to match in industrial catalogs.

[phantomjackalope1]

Interesting build...And no...Life is "Not Pointless".

[720moorhsum]

theres no replacement for displacement

[dschNgz]

wtf ??? 1:23 HIS NAIL OMFG :D

[glennoropeza0]

A straight 8 DOHC? Wow a Dusenberg replica engine!

[TheDemonsaxe]

cool but sounds like a pissed off wasp in a lawn mower!!

[1oldskoolluvr]

i luv how the front right caster spins after you fire it up!

awsome build. luv the copper detail work.

[liberatorkramit]

Wait you wanted it to sound lumpy, then you used to small 4 cylinder engines? Whatcha got there a 2L V8 i dont know how big you can get those NSU engines but i know they make a 997cc one... a 1L engine. The sound of power comes from ACTUAL cubic inches.... but still... its neat!

[Blitzwolf44]

burnout 1:38 lol

[transdetendal]

999desperate its kinda steampunk and yet modern in a civilized cataclsmic way of raw power and it sounds sweet. how big is the cc on it, i estimate by sound and the rev and pitch say about 2 to2,5liter i dont know the size in cubic inch.

[999desperate]

@transdetendal 2,400cc.

[transdetendal]

@999desperate really neat, saw some old nsu racers, they are damn fast he he,wonder how tis would work as such

[Legotruck82]

What does the NSU originally come from? Awesome build love the retro look you've gone for.

[DDotyVideo]

You are the Gearhead!! All Hail the Gearhead!!!

[ChuddleBuggy]

Hi there. Did you hook up the 2 crankshafts at 90 degrees of each other (which I think you did, judging from the v8 distributor)? That must have been extremely unbalanced!

[999desperate]

@ChuddleBuggy the cranks were joined at 180 degrees, there was virtually zero vibration.

[ChuddleBuggy]

@999desperate but that wouldnt make sense because you are using a v8 distributor which means you're igniting 1 out of 8 cylinders at a time. Joining 2 inline-4's at 180 (or zero) degrees would mean you will be firing 2 out of 8 cylinders at 1 time-and for that you would need an inline 4 dizzy with 2 leads per plug. Sorry to bug you with the question...great accomplishment either way!

[aviatorsbh]

@999desperate Thats hard to believe! Usually straight eight engines have cross plane crankshafts to achieve the 90 degree firing angle. This also allows complete mass compensation then. If you joined the two usual straight plane four cylinder shafts in a angle of 180 degree the engine should shake twice as much as a "single" four cylinder. Joining them at 90 degree would transfer the mass forces of second order to mass moments but not really improve the fatigue behavior. (...)

[aviatorsbh]

@999desperate (...) On the other handside you would have the 90 degree firing angle then which results in smoother torque deliviery.

[hrsqsiest]

@romandybala Hooked together as one by the crank. Both engines have differently timed firing orders firing as one. Therefor, "straight eight". Detroit did the same for v12 and v16s. Had special injector pumps for those engines.

[RcMaDnEsS35]

looks like two honda 750's put together and then he slapped a super charger on it

[OHSOOOFLY]

Rad, I love it, what are you putting it into?

[88racex]

Respect mate, this is tops

[drummerjoe2]

what size GM blower did you use? a 471?

[999desperate]

@drummerjoe2 Yes mate, it was a 4/71

[kevrs2]

THATS A GREAT JOB YOUVE DONE ,!

[Mechknight73]

I can't remember the model, but Kawasaki made a model of tourer that featured a straight six. North-south mount, right? Wrong! it was east-west, and looked like a bastard if you dropped it on its side. Whether in a car, a bike or a trike, would have made a great engine, but definitely north-south. The only transverse straight eight I've ever heard of was a Ford USA show car, circa 1995

[999desperate]

@Mechknight73 Kawasaki did the Z1300 & Honda did the CBX, both sixes in-line. I've both triked & chopped examples of them.

[bearcoldheart]

@999desperate oh ? does this mean we may see a inline 12 cyl. like 2 z1300 or did you not ever want a inline 12 ? ;-)> cool vid tho

[stoichiometric]

Honda really knows there shit!

[mr5litre304]

Why are you breathing so heavy? What are you doing behind the camera?

[flobaththegr8]

there is an alternative to cubic inches... it's called cubic centermeters ;)

[tconst17]

Great vid. Always nice to see "old school". Nothing like the sound of V-twin or a nicely done 8 cylinder. Too many kids these days like something that sounds like a weedeater on steroids and piped through a coffee can exhaust. That motor would be PERFECT to replace a old flathead ford about 1934!

[nrajcoomar]

FWD !

[jgmagoo1]

Gonna' be a bear to install in a motorcycle isn't it? Croswise like a CBX would cool better, but it's going to be really wide. Lengthwise it's gonna' present cooling problems and be awfully long.

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[KTwisted10]

Anti clockwise?? Thought it was counter clockwise but then again.. i build engines in a real shop too... That's not your engine running.. that's my lawn mower next door!!!

[ArkadiusProductions]

That is a beautiful engine! Looks amazing and runs the same.

I know so many people who would love to have one, myself included. ;)

Great work!

[sh3lbot]

Why not just buy a Bugatti T-49.

[999desperate]

@sh3lbot OK, stop talking sex. I used to restore old Maserati's (250F's, 8CLT's etc) but damn the small stuff, I wouldn't mind the engine out of a 1939 Auto Union, complete with twin blowers, one supercharging the next one.

[tpvalley]

@999desperate

why didn't u just look at rocker arms or cam to work out firing order? easier than taking heads off!

also, how will u keep it cool what with fins being so hemmed in etc?

if u use longitudinally only front cylinders will get cool!

[sh3lbot]

@999desperate I love old engines also my friend :)

[sh3lbot]

@999desperate I love old engines also my friend :) Love the work also.

[eldorado62]

That used to be the cry once upon a time in America. No substitute for cubic inches. Today, our big engines are gone & so are the cubic inches. Great video by the way. I really enjoyed it.

[999desperate]

@eldorado62 Too true. Here in the UK I spent hours trying to get our feeble engines to go. The lucky people across the pond had a saying that stuck in my mind from early on...."There aint no substitute for cubic inches". And as for Superchargers, here's something else I saw on a car bumper...."Injections perfection, but I'd rather be blown".

[TeeWeeQcKsteel]

wuhuuu :-) NSU it runs for you AND so it does! Nice work...I mean nice engine :-) U r a great mechanican

[whiteraider]

damn that's one fine piece of art you made there

[Films4You]

Raw Power

1:37 See how to turns the front wheel of the bogie, nice look of raw power with the sound of a beast

[PUNCHARD800ftlb]

incredible piece of work/art got torque too by the looks of it

[999desperate]

@PUNCHARD800ftlb You got it right, a lot of folk missed the point. I wanted to build an engine that looked just like it had been found under a crashed Zeppelin, hence all the copper & rivets. I wanted to build an engine that would make old duffers say "I had one of those in my Fokker Triplane". Personally, I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. As someone mentioned earlier, "Pointless"....but so's life.

[TheSmoonge]

@999desperate I wonder if the guy they named the Fokker Triplane after had a mother they called "Mother Fokker" XD

[999desperate]

@TheSmoonge Well, it was certainly a mother-fokker to build:)

[Myserieden]

@999desperate

did a good job on the visuals. made me think Sci-Fi, after reading your comment i can def see the Steam Punk influence.

[DARTHNECRION]

What's the firing order on that? Great work, BTW!

[999desperate]

@DARTHNECRION I honestly can't remember. It took 3 weeks to work out & I had to take the heads off (there are 4) to watch the pistons going up to TDC & to get my own head around it & to join the cranks in the right position. That V8 distributor (which runs backwards) also had to be gutted & a set of different points found. There was a lot of work & machining went into that. I think I ended up with the firing order of a conventional V8. distributor.

[9dhuff]

@999desperate 18436572

[Road2Perfection]

@999desperate Awesome work, but...

there is a replacement for displacement, it's called.

lighter car, vvt, modern injection, detailed electronic maps, high compression, fast spooling turbo running low boost and with a cvt transmission.

Okey I hate CVT, but you get my point, but as raw power out of the engine, there is little to replace the displacement, but in a car there is a complex mathematical equasion to consider.

[daviddntait]

My hands look like yours even after i wash them...i rebuild transmissions!

[999desperate]

@daviddntait Thanks mate, the idiots that commented on the state of my hands have probably never strayed further than a computer keyboard.

[TheSfera125]

Wanna put this little Devil in my Escort............ ;)

[88s10Durango]

My hats off to you sir. Awesome

 engine !!

[sunsweetsuitable]

i would love to see what it ended up in

[WordsofWisdom2010]

lovin the copper plate!!

[999desperate]

@WordsofWisdom2010 It's from an old heating boiler, it took hours to rub off the protective plating with wet & dry!

[southernwaytransport]

How much did you sell this for? I build custom vehicle chassis for customers who want something original. Thanks!

[madjimms]

I would rather have a turbo version, but still pretty nice!

[faisalabulaziz1]

@madjimms

a turbo would have helped in the idle..

[madjimms]

@faisalabulaziz1 I just don't like superchargers. :-/

[faisalabulaziz1]

@madjimms

so do i

[Soleatr]

I dont see the practicality of it but great build none the less

[itstheoz1]

what will you do for a transmision put it in drive and it will go in reverce lol

[999desperate]

@itstheoz1 Pretty simple solution, turn the axle upside down:)

[beverwyck1]

Dude clean under your nails...just sayin

[ZoDDyXXX]

@beverwyck1 Well not only cleaning, they seriously need a cut with a chainsaw!! OMG! 1:23

[pilatunes]

You are ingenious!!!

[DEATH94SQUAD]

A lot of jags run backwards too

[chris101ward]

Stright 8... Your crank shaft will be sorry

[carprigger38]

VERY GOOD JOB BUD!!

[JagguFilmer]

is it for sale



[999desperate]

@JagguFilmer I've already sold it. My love is building stuff so it invariably gets moved on to finance the next project.

[ilovecats748]

That thing is a freakin' masterpiece.

[log38372]

JUST BALANCING EVERYTHING TOGETHER TO MAKE THE ENGINE FUNCTION IS INCREDIBLE YOU HAVE MY RESPECT.

[log38372]

I KNOW WHERE THERE ARE ABOUT 10 BUICK STRAIGHT 8 OUT OF OLD AMBULANCES THEY ARE FLATHEADS THOSE WERE THE FIRST I HAD SEEN IN MY LIFE BUT THEY WERE HUGE.MY FRIEND HAS ONE IN A EARLY HUDSON HORNET WITH A 2 SPEED POWERGLIDE AND ITS A MONSTER.

[citydriver]

holy crap thats cool

[TK42138]

That is one seriously epic engineering project. Maximum respect.

[ChargerMiles007]

Awesome :)

[adoreslaurel]

Great stuff,I thought NSU died out years ago,I must be wrong. I remember the old Wankel rotaries in the magnificent RO80 and a little car they built in the 50's

[999desperate]

@adoreslaurel Yep, they're rare as rocking horse poo, they were fitted in the back of the NSU Prinz. These were the "hot" version, NSU 1200TT's. I've also fitted these engines in bikes, I'll try & post something later.

[revolutionday1]

Whooptie-damn-doo.

[gigeliubesteverde]

have you ever think to put it in a buggy ?



[MrTpengineer]

Strait 8 engines actually existed! back in the 60's or so very few cars had them :)

[romandybala]

Its not a straight eight its an inline twin four. Two separate engines

[JRHJBlatz]

sounds like my 5hp briggs lawnmower

[Visnitchi]

Did you see the wheel burnout? :))

[KRAYSLiCK999]

@Visnitchi LOL!!

[999desperate]

@Visnitchi Ha-ha, everyone notices that, it was torque reaction trying to tip the whole thing over.

[RAIDwarDEN]

SO EPIC!

[Sirstan2000]

Flippin' brilliant buddy!

[KrazeeCain]

1:36 This engine's so bad-ass it doesn't even need to be connected to the wheels!

[thehandsomecreature]

that thing is freakin awesome!

[mydejavooo1]

That would be WAY cool in some sort of British sports car...like an older MG, Triumph, or something of that nature!! Really cool!!!!

[NinjaTTT]

1:21 thumbs up for the vampire finger nail XD

[bricub72]

do a work out, quit breathing so hard

[G60EXTREM]

my respect!

[offitcock]

u built ur own engine? im a jealous man i envy your knowledge and patience i should imagine

[theKOchannel]

@seasjam

Gloves are a pain in the ass to always wear.

[wendell2000]

You built an engine? How do you build an engine? Did you cast the block? Do tell. This is amazing.

[XivilaiAnaxes]

LOL the cart is like "Let's Go Bitches!!" Look at what i got! oh wait.... Then it took an arrow to the knee.

[yamahonkawazuki]

@XivilaiAnaxes over used. try again.

[yamahonkawazuki]

@XivilaiAnaxes nvm been here since 07, only 1 subscriber. and no videos. i dont see you being able to do anything else.

[seasjam]

you need wash your  hands .. damm ware gloves

[03056932]

@seasjam real men dont wear little rubber gloves

[thomascolin12]

can we put it in my civic si..

[epcdaniel]

@thomascolin12 Well no, no really.. It wouldn't fit in your Civic. It's physically too long to fit in your Civic.

[TheNicknewbie]

sounds like a lawn mower lol nice build tho

[MIA7Xthies]

The saying is "No replacement for displacement"

[akilyoung]

Crazy insane........WOW



[CAESARbonds]

Why should it sound lumpy.

is sounds great, good work :D

[AlaskaTrucker]

Beautiful piece of work, brother.

Ive owned a few Pontiacs and one Buick with straight eights, God, they were wonderful pieces of engineering. Keep'em Rolling!

[SweedSleds95]

How many cubic inches (or cm3) is it on? And what is its horsepower output?

[999desperate]

@SweedSleds95 2,500cc, about 300hp (estimated)

[ztwntyn8]

@999desperate wow, out of like 154 cubic inches. Damn near 2hp per cubic inch. I guess that's easy with a modern turbo 4cyl at the same displacement but this isi oldschool. I bet your engine would make more toque than a similar displacement and hp output 4cyl.

[jaguar420g]

@999desperate you arnt desperate dan from deperate dans that used to be in linslade leighton buzzard are you by any chance

[Numberonecock]

@jaguar420g Yes, he is the one and only Desperate Dan. He is on the Britchopper forum quite regularly.

[999desperate]

@jaguar420g Yes mate, it's me. Check out my Zig & Zag clip for film of Leighton Buzzard.