Home-made 4 cylinder Briggs engine..

[BUTCH1]

These guys took months making this project, it only generates about 4-6 HP but the attention to detail is awesome, fast forward to 5:35 to see it start. There is also about 24 other vids they made detailing how they made it, cool IMO.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCgUddbr5_8

 

[Raizinman]

I can purchase a 5.5 HP engine at Harbor Freight for $119 and save the months that it would have taken to build one myself.

It always amazes me the things people will spend a long time building or making that can be purchased off the shelf for a fraction of the cost.

 

[MongGrel]

I was not going to demean anything, but it just does seem to be a bit of a hobby.

But people have hobbies.

 

[BUTCH1]

I can purchase a 5.5 HP engine at Harbor Freight for $119 and save the months that it would have taken to build one myself.

It always amazes me the things people will spend a long time building or making that can be purchased off the shelf for a fraction of the cost.

HF, yea, they sell great stuff!. I think your missing the point here, they didn't need a 5.5HP engine, they wanted a technological challenge and seamlessly mating 4 Briggs engines was no small task. It literally looks like it came from a Briggs plant, that's cool to me anyway.

 

[Z15CAM]

How about an old 50's Single Cyl 5.5 Hp Briggs & Straton ;o)

Primarily used them with Jet Vane Pumps for Water Supply to a Lodge or fighting forest fires through a 2" hose and Gate or Nosle.

 

[Art&Science]

I can purchase a 5.5 HP engine at Harbor Freight for $119 and save the months that it would have taken to build one myself.

It always amazes me the things people will spend a long time building or making that can be purchased off the shelf for a fraction of the cost.

Wow, you're fucking stupid.





No reason for the profane, personal attack.




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[DaTT]

Wow, you're fucking stupid.

This kind of attitude won't last long around here.

 

[BUTCH1]

Wow, you're fucking stupid.

LOL, yea, these guys built something from scrap motors, the first in-line Briggs 4-banger. The fabrication skills to accomplish this was no small task.