peterl95124
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I started this Duesenberg Straight 4 too long ago for this to be a complete build blog, but am hoping this inspires some folks to ask for my plans, of what I consider to be both a beautiful and historically significant engine. The original is of course the "Straight 8" but I decided that would be too large for my bookshelf and didn't really want to make 32 valves, 32 valve guides, 32 cam follower buckets and 32 follower guides, so cut it down to a "Straight 4", with the hope that it will still be recognizable as the classic Duesenberg (especially if painted bright green with polished aluminum covers as it seems all full size engines are). I think it would be easy for someone to use my plans and build either a straight-4, straight-6, or straight-8. The design and plans are still a work-in-progress so hold off asking for them until they're ready.
I contacted Lou Chenot about plans for his 1:6 scale Duesenberg engine, he said he didn't keep any, but gave me his "factory drawings" on a CD, and said he thought they belonged in the public domain so I'll make them available for anyone that asks (I've already uploaded some of the drawings to BAEMClub website). In any event 1:6 scale was way too small for me to to 4-valves-per-cylinder, so I've gone with 1:4 scale derived from the factory drawings. The factory drawings are incomplete as in missing a couple pages, and show what machining operations are to be done on castings but are only approximate about the castings themselves so some interpretation from photographs of full size engines was required.
I contacted Lou Chenot about plans for his 1:6 scale Duesenberg engine, he said he didn't keep any, but gave me his "factory drawings" on a CD, and said he thought they belonged in the public domain so I'll make them available for anyone that asks (I've already uploaded some of the drawings to BAEMClub website). In any event 1:6 scale was way too small for me to to 4-valves-per-cylinder, so I've gone with 1:4 scale derived from the factory drawings. The factory drawings are incomplete as in missing a couple pages, and show what machining operations are to be done on castings but are only approximate about the castings themselves so some interpretation from photographs of full size engines was required.
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