Caught this guy on Kickstarter.

2K HP Flat Four

$200 into their $40,000 goal...

Maybe he should collaborate with Jake to get this going?

Hope they are better as machinists than they are as writers!
Tom

I have already dealt with them. Have been since 2006.

Why would I want to contribute besides seeing this Explode?

That would fit in my car very nicely.

Ah yes, .675 hp/lb...perfect...probably need a bigger rear wing though. And then add wings on the sides.

no cutting fluid/coolant flowing over teh crank?

BTW, I call BS on those HP numbers...

2000hp seems like a stretch for a little 4 cylinder. Maybe with forced induction and N2O you could reach that number for 10 seconds.

And make sure you have a camera pointed at it for that 11th second

Hmmm if you were going to start a project like this "clean sheet of paper"
why not design the heads OHC? 4v? Hemi?

Why do they need so much money if the engine is almost finished?

And filming.. bad audio.

I dunno. I see nothing for scale. Could be the size of a house. A man could stand up in those cylinders.

Smaller than a house...

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A giant! He's a giant. 100 feet tall!

Could not hear the guy.
And WHAT is up with that oil pump?

That was my first thought.

Second thought: How in the hell do you install the rods onto the crank?
Obviously the pistons/rods have to go in through the head side with pistons pins installed. Then you slide the rod over the crank and install the cap... How do you tighten the bottom nut?
(edit) perhaps you could install the crank with the rods already installed & torqued, feed the rod ends through the hole with the cylinders Not installed, install pistons, feed pistons through bottom of cylinders. Might be enough clearance...

third: 2000 HP on an aircooled engine...hmmm Methinks that the heat generated would not work with an aircooled engine but there i go using that thermodynamics voodoo again ;-)

Combo oil pump/scavenge pump and fuel pump ... Really Hi(gh) Tech!

exactly what I was thinking. why go to all the effort to design everything from scratch, and then still use pushrods.

The whole top of the case comes off....easy to reach the crank.
Bottom comes off too.

Not the first or last modular type 1 engine... So where exactly is the innovation?

Lets just say that they are much better machinist than businessmen. They've burned a lot of bridges, including one thats still flaming with me.

I cannot say anything bad about them ...... they are doing what they want, sharing a little info and if they are not hurting anyone ...... more power to them!