Supercharged home made Straight Eight by Desperate Dan Vid 2

Built in a shed, it fired up first go. I was hoping it would sound real lumpy like a drag engine, but it runs too smooth, and it's too quiet even with unsilenced 9" pipes! The timing was a pain to sort out the Rover distributor runs backwards, I had to take the heads off to work out the firing order!!! See the shed it was built in on Vid 1.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Trike
• home built engine
• supercharged
• engine
• custom
• motorcycle tuning

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Blitzwolf44]

burnout 1:38 lol

[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?

[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



[PowerSports420]

PROPS!!!