There are lots of projects we don’t entirely understand the motivation behind but we revel in their greatness anyway and this is one of those. The engine in the video began life as four different engines and over time those four were turned into the absolutely killer flathead four banger you see in this video. Breathing through a tubular header and using a very unique little carb, the engine fires up about half way through the video after the builder has to fiddle with the carb to get it happy. Detailed to within an inch of its life and looking like it came out of some sort of ancient race car, this engine is fantastic. We have no idea what (if anything) it will power or if it will be a stationary display engine. Either way since it runs, we’re good with the decision. The four engines that are used seem to date to the 1950s or 1960s so their output is probably in the single digits with dense air and a whiff of nitrous.
There is a whole series of videos that you can see of this engine coming together but we’re just giving you the big payoff of hearing it run. We are going to dig back in to see how the camshaft was made because all of these engines (which are now one engine) apparently run off the same cam. There is a lot of time into this setup and judging by the amount of stuff in the guy’s shop (especially the motorcycles…look at ’em all!) he’s a hardcore gearhead for certain.
Seeing as the project has been followed since the beginning we hope to see the next phase (if their is a next phase) of it on the same YouTube channel that this video came from. With the ability to throttle it like a normal engine, we’re thinking it may actually show up to power a cool old car. Either that or we need to nominate this for the small engine hall of fame…is there such a thing?
PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE THIS AWESOME FOUR INTO ONE BRIGGS AND STRATTON FIRE UP AND RUN!
Great to see young guys doing something more than play video games.
You have a pretty cynical view of today’s youth then.
They look like 3.5 HP engines…so does 4 of them make 14 hp or does it change with 4 of them together? Amazing job regarless. Would look killer on an old school bike. I used to have many Briggs engines when I had my Rental business. Talked to a Briggs guy at their booth at a trade show years ago. He told me they built 40,000 engines on an average day, and had built as many as 60,000 in one day. I hope they still do close to that these days, but kind of doubt it.
The boy might have a future as an engine builder. I can see some of the things he’s come up with. Maybe 4 V8s turned into one engine.
That main case looks like a blower main case..