1/3 Scale Austin Seven Engine

[stevehuckss396]

Simply awesome work!!

 

[Rob.Barrett]

Hi,

Some pictures of the water inlet manifold and valve chest cover.

Rob

 

[Rivergypsy]

Just to check, you're not the R.Barret that worked at the Cav Labs in the mid 90's are you?

 

[Rob.Barrett]

No, that's not me.

 

[ShedBoy]

Amazing detail on such a tiny engine.

Brock

 

[Septic]

The Seven is without doubt one of the true heroes of British motoring and its great to see it depicted so beautifully.

 

[idahoan]

Wow it just keeps getting better!

Thanks for the update.

Dave

 

[metalmad]

Just Lovely, A real work of Art!
Pete

 

[sunworksco]

It will be great to hear it run.

 

[Rob.Barrett]

Exhaust / inlet manifold machined from a single solid - with a bit of weld.

Rob.

 

[stevehuckss396]

Masterpiece!

 

[idahoan]

Beautiful!

It sure would be nice to see some of the steps you went through to create this little masterpiece??

Dave

 

[Davewild]

Absolutely beautiful, love it.

Dave

 

[Gurus]

I'll be watching your progress.
That's a wonderful engine,i like

 

[MrTin]

Beautiful work on a very familiar engine to me. I grew up with Austin 7s. My father built 3 Specials. I was nearly born in the last one, my Uncle built one with my childish help and now I have one myself, albeit with a Sunbeam 928cc engine as I can't now afford the silly prices asked for A7 engine stuff!

May I ask if you used CAD/CNC methods and how on Earth you got the casting codes into the model?

MrTin

 

[Rob.Barrett]

Many thanks for the comments.
Yes MrTim, I do have a small CNC Mill and old Myford lathe.

I'm just preparing the model to show at the Midland Model Engineering Show here in the UK. I've gone for a sort of exploded view with some of the components held by very long studs so you can see the inner workings.

Regards,
Rob

 

[ShopShoe]

Rob,

It's so interesting to see a different approach to display. And such detail paid to the interior of your engine as well. I can envision a large group of viewers around your table at the show.

Best of luck.

--ShopShoe

 

[johnny1320]

Beautiful work, can't wait to see it finished!

 

[jwcnc1911]

It looks like some one polished an original and stuck it in a scifi movie shrinking machine. This is the most accurate scale model I think I've ever seen!

Are you planning on selling your drawings, or castings or anything?

 

[Niceonetidy]

Rob,

I'm going to the midlands exhibition, I'm looking forward to viewing your fine work,

Cheers,

Colin