Take a modern Formula One engine that has such tight tolerances it has to be heated to operating temperature -just to start without being ruined- as an example of the best power/weight IC made, and they are good for one race....
hope no one thinks that all the parts in those exchange easily.
That kind of fit was possible in 1936 too. The tightness of machining then for those engines was high though nowhere as CNC fast as now. But they did have to make the things able to cold start, be fixed relatively quickly, and last just a bit longer.
Perhaps you need to have cut metal yourself to understand just how fine the better AC engines of those times really are. Calling the Merlins crude is like saying that people in the past were stupid because they didn't know what is known by some people now. Yet we can't get a real dialog on global warming....
You want crude, get an old Harley made to 1910 technology -- any made up to perhaps the 60's.
Last edited by MaxGunz; 06-24-2011 at 03:25 AM.
Reason: because I wanted to
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