My homemade V8 engine gets watercooling part 16

[@evanhale4845]

Absolutely love watching the detal and quality of your work

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you. Made the last castings this weekend so now I have tons of machining to do. Then we can hopefully do something else...

[@Michael-gp7mv]

Some people are driven to extreme challenges,may 2024 be your best year yet,thanks from Perth Western Australia 🇦🇺👌👌👌👌

[@Desmouffe]

I hope so too. There are so many things that can go wrong in this project. One step at the time...

[@K_Shea]

You've done a bang up job on that from start to now, always interesting to see you working through weak spots in the design.

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you

[@DatBoiOrly]

1:25 damn the wife must love you loads to allow you to use the oven for projects

[@Desmouffe]

Yes, she is fantastic

[@juhajuntunen7866]

Super interesting, maybe something like year 1900.

[@sparraAus]

Im loving this series

[@bengelman2600]

Very Nice!

[@Desmouffe]

👍

[@DatBlueHusky]

thats amazing all that is hand made down to the casting

[@TheLonelyCowboy1958]

Awesome work. looks pretty identical to the ford flathead v8 cooling system. love it!

[@Desmouffe]

Yes, I have been looking at the 8BA

[@greatalaska6429]

So impressive to see someone make these parts by hand. I commend you, and appreciate you sharing the journey.

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you

[@The3chordwonder]

Happy new year also and your wife is so nice to allow you to use the stove for aging the heads. Thank you for showing all of the steps (casting, machining, etc.) I really like all of the details!

[@Desmouffe]

👍

[@sparraAus]

Just wait untill he has to clean greasy parts in the dishwasher. Works a treat, but its the couch for a week

[@The3chordwonder]

@@sparraAus I second that. The dishwasher does make for an excellent parts washer. I got a free dishwasher from the local classifieds and did exactly that.

[@oikkuoek]

By adding fins to the top, it would use both styles to cool the engine. Similar, rougher texture inside the water jacket would also transfer more heat. Heat transfer is all about maximizing the surface area while keeping the fluid flow over the surface area laminar.

[@Desmouffe]

True

[@burntorangeak]

I love your projects and presentations. Seasons greetings from far far away.

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you

[@Paulman50]

Makes really good viewing, i do appreciate the effort you put into bring this to us.

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you

[@shaunforcier]

Sir I am absolutely loving your videos thank you for sharing them I love working with my hands and learning new things God bless you

[@Desmouffe]

That's the point. You learn things all the time..

[@MCW1955]

Your channel came up about 6 months ago, and now can’t wait for each new video!! Greetings from Northern California, hope 2024 is a good year.

[@Desmouffe]

I feel the pressure....

[@hw4527]

Thank you for posting 👍👍

[@MattysWorkshop]

Gday, absolutely beautiful job, certainly a lot of work involved but it’s definitely going to be worth it, have a great new years and thanks for all the great content this year, cheers

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you. I will take a few days off now but I have found 40kg of scrap aluminium so....

[@audifreaket]

Gott Nytt År! Det är härligt att följa din kanal. Hälsningar från Finland 🇫🇮

[@Desmouffe]

Tackar. Vi får hoppas att jag kommer i mål

[@Six4691]

Happy New Year sir! Amazing project, thanks for sharing your journey and knowledge!

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you.

[@denny75t]

Really nice!👌 Happy New Year!😊

[@daveb2wright]

Nice work. Absolutely fascinating.

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you. For the moment nothing happens here due to a snowstorm. Can't do any outdoor casting, but we will get there...

[@TSRGarage]

Absolutely beautiful work, Thanks for making videos and sharing the progress.

[@Desmouffe]

👍

[@mattyoung2880]

It’s looking so good !!

[@blah666]

Happy New Year to you and your family as well. I really appreciate your updates.

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you

[@greggc8088]

Impressive. Happy New Year!

[@Desmouffe]

👍

[@Sun_Salt_and_Gasoline]

Happy new year to you as well! Keep up the good work! An electric water pump will work just fine, also add a thermostat to the system, pressure cap and look into Spal thermostaticaly controlled cooling fans, with variable rpm. They offer great temperature control.

[@Desmouffe]

I'm not planning to use a conventional thermostat. The radiator I have found have an electrical fan with an electric thermostat. I hope it will do the job.

[@1toonhead]

Happy new year to you mate, been loving seeing how you engineer your work to solve problems.

[@Desmouffe]

👍

[@stephenyambor1422]

Happy New Year!! Way to go! This is the coolest lawnmower engine I have ever seen!

[@Desmouffe]

👍

[@a-k-jun-1]

As always Sir, amazingly clean work youre doing

[@Desmouffe]

Thanks

[@DatBoiOrly]

13:36 i'm surprised you didn't glue the two pieces of the heads together like vauxhall glues there heads to there engine blocks

[@Desmouffe]

There are many ways to solve problems. I use what I find on the shelf...

[@JH-jp9sv]

What wonderful work! Please continue and happy new year!

[@Desmouffe]

Thanks

[@carlmalone4011]

Keep up the great work. I look forward to seeing your latest posts

[@grntitan1]

You need to build yourself a X-axis power feed. My arm was worn out watching. 😊

[@Desmouffe]

I know. The thought has come up from time to time

[@johnwest5926]

You are doing a great job! Excellent work.

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you. Unfortunately the weather has been windy, snowy and cold lately so outdoor casting is out of the question. Hoping for improvement next week...

[@lilylodon]

Nice work dude, I’m subscribing

[@Desmouffe]

Welcome to the channel. I try to post something every two or three weeks

[@opieshomeshop]

You might want to consider going back in the water passages, all those squared areas should be rounded off. Any sharp angular areas like that will cause cavitation problems and that not only alters flow characteristics, but will create both hot spots and the cavitation will literally eat away the metal in short order. Just a thought.

[@Desmouffe]

Yes, always room for improvement

[@Jools-j2l]

Absolutely Fabulous, ive just recently found your channel, and im thoroughly impressed, i love home workshop engineering, tho you're obviously highly skilled, i was curious how youd water cool solid aluminium heads.

[@Desmouffe]

It would have been a complicated mold for the casting so I went for two parts put together.

[@ethanspaziani1070]

Beautiful work I would put that in my car!

[@Desmouffe]

It's only 25 hp

[@ethanspaziani1070]

@@Desmouffe better than the no horsepower that I got

[@Biokemist-o3k]

Absolutely Fantastic!! Very beautiful my friend..

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you. yes, it turned out quite well

[@aloberdorf4579]

Was Jesus in your class Photo?......LOL ! You are incredibly knowledgeable. Happy New Year.

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you

[@dougbawden4321]

Amazing

[@driverjamescopeland]

So... I'm a bit perplexed. I assume you're converting to water cooling due to a cooling deficiency... either completely (low throughput), or under sustained load (low capacity/duty cycle). Much of this could be solved by reversing the position of the valvetrain to the valley side, and having central intake/exhaust like the 1st generation Cadillac V8. It would eliminate the cylinder crowding of the intake passages, and limit exhaust temp absorbtion. It would also allow you to simplify the cam/timing assembly to a single cam.

[@Desmouffe]

At the start of the project the goal was to make an engine out of Briggs & Stratton lawnmower cylinders. That is why the valves and cams are were they are. It is much easyer to do like Ford and everyone else but for me I must make a new crankcase and that is to much work. And with the valve train to the valley side the exhausts goes thru the waterjacket with coolingproblems. I have the intake manifold thru the waterjacket instead. I just wanted to convert the engine to watercooling in a way that looked possible with the tools available. And mostly in a way I felt fun.

[@Kentsu959]

Gott Nytt År

[@Desmouffe]

Det kan jag behöva...

[@Kentsu959]

@@Desmouffe blir nog ett bra år med din V8 ska du se

[@Mr.Avuncular]

Keep up the awesome work....❤it's gonna be way worth it!!

[@Desmouffe]

We can always hope. There are a lot of things that can go wrong

[@Mr.Avuncular]

@@Desmouffe I'm well Aware of the difficulty in building such.. leaks warpage sealing ect ..list goes on, but the fun is the doing

[@Desmouffe]

True@@Mr.Avuncular

[@rockcrusher4636]

Skit bra som vanligt, mycket bättre med text. Cheers.

[@giovannicintolo89]

Wonderful work. Happy New Year to you as well!

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you

[@jordanmotz3235]

This Is an awesome series. Have you considered trying a cross-plane crankshaft in place of the flat plane? I’ve thought that would give it a cool muscle car sound

[@Desmouffe]

Yes I have. When I made the crankshaft I knew very little about V8 crankshafts. I made a flatplane because I is easyer to balance. But yes, later I understood that if you want that nice sound it should be a crossplane. But it's made of a expensive piece of steel with a weight of 19kg. When I was finished it was 5,5kg. I'm not doing that again...

[@robertrosen6989]

Enastående arbete som vanligt👌 Gott nytt år

[@Desmouffe]

Detsamma. Ha de gott

[@kcraig51]

Looking really good! I'm worried there will be coolant leaks around the spark plug holes. The sealing surface looks kinda thin and no fasteners near them.

[@Desmouffe]

Me too, and several other places...

[@richardwirt3193]

Yes very good work and Happy Newyear too you

[@Desmouffe]

Thank you

[@chrisprobert6]

Come on man, chin up and power thru. Spectacular so far 👍

[@Desmouffe]

I will, I will....

[@Nobody-U-Want-2-Know]

Right about now you’re thinking: Why didn’t I just add shrouds and a higher flow electric fan to the air-cooled V8???

[@Desmouffe]

Not really. The cylinders were made for airflow along the cylinders. Not downwards. If I blow air the right way the last cylinder would be very warm.

[@sunfishensunfishen2271]

How long did you treat those parts for? I’m going to be casting a crankcase soon and I’m curious what your settings there were

[@Desmouffe]

8 hours in 200 dgr C. I read somewhere that it should be treated 8 - 30 hours in 180 - 200 dgr C. It was a big improvement compared to when I did nothing. Fresh casted aluminium gets a bit spongy and sticks to the tools during mashining. It hardens gradually and after a month It should be hard. But you can speed up the process with heat. But I'm no expert.

[@sodderbridge]

Will probably leak around spark plug holes. Better option would have been a circular groove for o-rings and a paper gasket for perimeter.

[@Desmouffe]

Yes, I'm afraid for leakage here and there. It's an open system with no pressure

[@edvinjohansson9625]

Se det positivt, tog ju bara 3 månader att både designa och tillverka hälften. Nu behöver du inte designa något, samt att du redan vet vad du håller på med, så det borde väl inte vara mycket mer än 2 månader :)

[@Desmouffe]

Det är sant. Börjar få kläm på det nu

[@IrenESorius]

Gott Nytt År,, 👍‍‍😎👍‍‍

[@Desmouffe]

Gott nytt själv

[@jonlund3161]

Kanonvideo som alltid! Mycket kul att se och lärorikt. Vad är fördelen med att gå med liten fräs först och sen den stora mot att bara ta den stora? En sk. Flycutter, skulle den göra jobbet bra? Den går väl att få till att ta hela bredden?

[@Desmouffe]

Jag har en lite klen fräsmaskin. Den stora planfräsen tar kanske 0,2mm i varje skär men ger en väldigt fin yta. Den lilla fräsen tar ett par mm och skulle jag hitta lite lös sand från gjutningen så blir den slö, men kan slipas om. Den stora fräsen har vändbara plattor som kostar skjortan. Jag tar väldigt små skär för att ju grövre skär du tar måste arbetsstycket sitta hårdare fast. En ny gjuten bit deformeras lätt om man spänner för hårt. Så jag har gott om tid och tar små skär och slipper gjuta om. Har aldrig provat en flycutter men den har väl bara ett skär så matningen måste bli väldigt långsam och jag tror inte man tar mer än högst 1/10 mm varje skär. Men det blir en plan och bred yta. Tror inte min lille maskin klarar det.

[@jonlund3161]

@@Desmouffe aha! Tack för svar! Det lät väldigt logiskt när du förklarade.

[@dimkanon9093]

Эх, дед, класный ты, усынови меня))) Выйду на пенсию звезду нижнеклапаную буду собирать

[@Desmouffe]

?

[@davidornberg]

Snart är det väl dags för en kompressor på bygget när du väl är klar med vattenkylningen? *-)

[@Desmouffe]

Gräsklippar kolvar o stakar, vevaxel lagrad på bara tre ställen, I dont think so...

[@maggs131]

Id love to hear how you pronounce your channel name. As an American i say lickey-boo

[@Desmouffe]

It's the name of my house. Very common here in sweden. It means "happy homestead".

[@mattiasrosberg1332]

Helt fantastiskt coolt! Varför du gör det? För att du kan. Önskar att jag också kunde. Det här är KZbins just nu intressantaste kanal.

[@Desmouffe]

Kanske inte för att jag kan, men för att ta reda på om man kan. Lite nervöst att hänga ut hela projektet här och kanske misslyckas för öppen ridå, men så får det bli. Mycke kan gå fel...

[@mattiasrosberg1332]

@@Desmouffe Alltså, du är på en sådan nivå att även om detta nu skulle gå käppers - så är det fortfarande så otroligt coolt att du/någon prövat. Och om det lyckas. Wow. Så i princip kan det här bara bli bra. Alldeles oavsett hur det går. I mitt tycke. Jag själv skulle inte komma på tanken att pröva mig på detta. Har inte maskinerna, skulle inte veta hur man använder dem, kan inte tillräckligt om material, jobbar inte med CAD, har inte ögat för lösningar och skulle inte ha tid. Men jag får följa dig! Stort tack för det.

[@donniewatson9120]

Your wife, if you have one, must be more understanding than mine; which ended up stating while I was typing this comment.

[@Desmouffe]

She is fantastic

[@donniewatson9120]

@Desmouffe , mine is too. But, she would still object to me using her kitchen oven to do any curing, aging, or heat treating of any metallic devices. Food and proper cooking dishes is all she wants in her oven.

[@Desmouffe]

As long as the objects are absolutely cleen of course @@donniewatson9120