Have big flywheels, can I make an engine?

[rcavictim]

I have a pair of these enormously heavy, 33" diameter, 5" wide flywheels that came off some IHC farm machinery which I salvaged the associated gearboxes from for my big wind turbine project.

I would love to have a slow diesel engine, something that makes say 6 -10 HP and runs about 250-300 RPM.  Since I'll never find one like this that I could afford, I have toyed with the idea of cutting up an engine that I CAN AFFORD and making a big single out of it.

An example is my IHC TD14A power unit.  It is a ~480 cu.in. 4 cylinder inline diesel that starts on gasoline and switches over to diesel once popping.  I have considered that I could basically push the whole thing through a huge bandsaw just behind the first cylinder.  That would give me all the cam gear and other drives needed and the water pump mount. The trouble is that the bore at 4.5" and stroke at 6.5" is just not big enough for what I wish to do.  I'd like to find something larger, maybe 6" bore and 8" stroke.

Any ideas?

[rcavictim]

Any ideas?

Put a shipping tag on it and send it my way .... problem solved

Jens

Nothing would make me happier than if I had a renewable supply of this rather irreplaceable pair so I could share with friends here.  Sorry.

[TimSR2]

 I have seen it done.  I had a friend that cut a model T engine  in half in the  30's because it was free and he only needed about 12 hp for the pump he wanted to run. Oh yeah, the good part.....he did it with a hacksaw. In the late 80's he was still running it at shows. Crankcase was brazed back together at the back.

TimSR2

[Wizard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJxXdVpKVY

Half ford model T engine.

Cheers, Wizard

[mobile_bob]

i gotta admit that is one of the coolest hack jobs i have ever seen!

thats some determination to use a hacksaw to cut that engine in half.

really cool project

bob g

[TimSR2]

Different guy. My friend was from Saskatchewan originally.  He's SK now. 

Tim

[rcavictim]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJxXdVpKVY

Half ford model T engine.

Cheers, Wizard

Well that's certainly inspirational isn't it?!  Nice to see another who is also not afraid to think outside of the box.

[lowspeedlife]

Here's another  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL1yiIh-IGw&feature=related

Looks like this was "the thing to do" way back then.
people must have been pretty bored LOL

   Scott R.