Miniature V12 Engine

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Miniature V12 Engine

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Thought this is cool.

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You can tell the guy is retired. 1220 hours into making it. :)

Very cool though.
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That's a $12,000 engine if he made a modest $10/h.
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Freestyle72 wrote:That's a $12,000 engine if he made a modest $10/h.
That detailed of machining he would make at least 40/hr in the real world if he was working for someone. But none of us ever do anything like that for the money.
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I could see myself doing something like that in retirement, but more like a V-twin.

Yamaha_George - have we got a project for you! Get a mini FZR motor going. How cool would that be.
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Thats really neat, thanks for sharing it.
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