Making a 4 stroke engine (home lathe / milling machine etc)

[mstram]

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This is too cool

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmT490fSkpHG66IBB3HGLIqGYObA1fnI3

In a related note, what are some good books on engine design ?

I've come across :

The Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice
Charles Fayette Taylor

Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice, second edition, revised, Volume 2: Combustion, Fuels, Materials, Design

Vol 1
The Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice, Vol. 1: Thermodynamics, Fluid Flow, Performance

 

[GreyGhost]

For a first attempt, I would just knockoff something like a Briggs or low cc honda. Piggyback on their thousands of hours of engineering and expensive lessons. That also lets you buy parts like rings and valve springs that would be painful to make.

If I wanted to build a tiny engine, I want multi-cylinder. They can rev to the moon and sound cool. The number of hours and cost would make it a very expensive toy.

 

[Brian P]

The Heywood text is the "bible": Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals 2E | Indigo

The focus in such textbooks is on getting students to analyze the fundamentals, not on how to construct one.

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