I created this inline-five cilinder engine and I wanted to include some influences of an aggressive animal, to give this engine block the same expression. First the engine looked like the front body of a leopard, but then the engine wasn't built correctly.
After some serious required modifications it looked a little more compact and more flat (it's still a large engine). After the modifications I wanted to name it after a snake, but the engine block appeared more like a Komodo Dragon, so I named it: Komodo Dragon Block!
About this creation
I am fascinated by the straight five cylinder engines that are placed in (modern) cars.
On one side these straight-five engines are a substitute and more practical for (extremely) tuned four cylinders like they place it in a Evo, Lancer or Golf or something. These are coughing up too much carbon dioxide what makes them more performance-like and less practical. On the other side six-cylinder engines are such huge gasoholics, that most of the people sell their own Porsche, BMW or Lexus after driving them a little, always driving anxious, afraid to spill too much gasoline.
The next step is that I'll spoon an even more downsized engine in a Hybrid car! I think it'll be a hybrid synergy drive Toyota Prius scale model.
The straight-five engine is a midway for people who can afford the money to buy a more luxurious (sports)car with awareness for greenhouse gas emission, to cause not to much environmental harm. This can be a great issue for people who want to travel fast by their own car and save some fuel and money.
Even then the four and six cylinder engines deliver very much power and can be driven very economical, but I prefer to apply five of them during this project.
The standard delivered Lego cylinder engine parts are only made for “V” shaped engines, like V2 up to and including V16, V18 or even more “V” shaped engines.
I wanted to build something different than standard Lego “V” shaped engines, so I experimented a little with “unusual” parts of Lego to create something different than the regular thing, what I never did before. I know that I can make a different cylinder engine and I know I have enough parts to build a lot of things, so the only thing I had to do was improvise and use everything I have.
I made the engine by using the regular rotating pins and put them together. I knew the cylinder arms would fit but they would not rotate very steady without another cylinder arm next to it, so I put them aside.
Next thing I did was collecting the “cylinders” (mainly used for linking two cross end bars together) and I simulated the movement they would make.
Because of the huge pressure of the small springs there was too much power needed to rotate the camshaft and it would break after too much power input.
To fix that, I placed the upside down springs a little higher so they would not cause too much pressure on the cylinders, so the cylinders would not tear apart the several rotating pins on the camshaft.
After a couple of slight modifications and the moving part of the cylinder engine was fixed, only by deleting the Lego parts that caused the too high pressure.
This is not the only cylinder engine I created, because I'm going to downsize this one and put that one on screen too. After that I'll create an even smaller inline-four cylinder engine for an upcoming project: Technic Toyota Prius!
If that project does not continue, than I´ll be forced to work on a short last minute project, using a three cylinder engine: Toyota Aygo or Volkswagen Polo!
After taking and uploading these pictures I began a new downsizing process to create a smaller inline four cylinder. Instead of continuing building further from the base, I stripped the engine model to loose components.
I wanted to know how much Lego parts I used during this mini project, so instead of putting the components in boxes I collected all the loose components and started counting them. After counting the components I added the numbers up together and surprisingly I've applied almost 400 single Lego components (raw estimation). The precise counting of used Lego parts is 394 single Lego components.
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August 1, 2010 |
Quoting Ben Schevers
Ziet er goed uit. Nog plannen om de motor nog ergens in te bouwen?
Ja, maar dan waarschijnlijk toch een wat compacter ontwerp en dan ook nog vier in plaats van vijf cilinders. Dan wordt dat waarschijnlijk geen power functions aangedreven schaalmodel, maar waarschijnlijk een statisch model. Geeft niets, daar houd ik ook wel van, want van het gehannes met de bedrading van het Ferrari GT4 model, om dat uit het directe zicht te houden, wordt je ook niet goed. Vooral als je dat bij elk opeenvolgend model toepast, dan wordt dat heus wel een weektaak, zo ik in mijn belevenis heb meegemaakt. |
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August 1, 2010 |
Ziet er goed uit. Nog plannen om de motor nog ergens in te bouwen? |
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June 10, 2010 |
Quoting -T.K GOODWOOD-
Great engine! I like your imagination to compare it to an aggressive animal! Please can you comment on my Ute and Low rider. I think youll like them.
Thanks dude! I enjoyed admiring your excellent work. |
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June 3, 2010 |
Great engine! I like your imagination to compare it to an aggressive animal! Please can you comment on my Ute and Low rider. I think youll like them. |
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| Gray Malkmus April 17, 2010 |
it is not good at all. if you are going to make an engine on that scale, just make a LPE! |
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| Gray Malkmus April 17, 2010 |
sorry, i was too harsh on you. was in a bad mood yesterday.. :) to answer your question, a LPE is a Lego Pneumatic Engine. it uses pneumatic cylinders as pistons. look at nico71's creations, he has one here on mocpages. |
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April 17, 2010 |
Quoting Gray Malkmus
sorry, i was too harsh on you. was in a bad mood yesterday.. :) to answer your question, a LPE is a Lego Pneumatic Engine. it uses pneumatic cylinders as pistons. look at nico71's creations, he has one here on mocpages.
It's allright, thanx dude! |
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April 17, 2010 |
Quoting Gray Malkmus
it is not good at all. if you are going to make an engine on that scale, just make a LPE!
What is a LPE? |
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February 13, 2010 |
Thank you very much, let's go and visit your Lego mocs.
Quoting DrSlumper The TRX Project
Great job.
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February 13, 2010 |
Great job. |
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February 11, 2010 |
Dan man! Thanks dude!
Quoting Dan the Man
Pretty cool idea, interesting design - looks good!
-Dan
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February 11, 2010 |
Pretty cool idea, interesting design - looks good!
-Dan |
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