next project - Diesel R/C truck!

[Tomeygun]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-K-O-15-Die...995356722QQcategoryZ34055QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem



Well, at least I found my engine

 

[trqmnstr]

I believe you can still buy small diesels like that. I forget which R/C toy they're used in, maybe planes or helicopters.

 

[trqmnstr]

That would be funny to get your R/C car to smoke like a freight train. I'd put one of those engines in a truck with a Ram body and run a stack out the top. That would be sweet!

 

[67guzzler]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-K-O-15-Die...995356722QQcategoryZ34055QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem



Well, at least I found my engine

That doesn't look to have a throttle -- just mixture so I don't think you'll be running it R/C.



Growing up there was a company called "Davis Diesel Development" and you could convert your Glow engine to diesel with their kits. The problem was when you cranked the engine for starting you had to lower the compression by unscrewing the bolt on the head of the cylinder thus retracting the insert inside the combusion chaimber up otherwise you'd bend a connecting rod. But it was hard to start them with the lowered compression so we would cheat and bump them up. Sure enough -- bent connecting rods.



Interestingly, once the engine was started, you could screw down the bolt on the head and it would run fine. The sound of the adapted engines was more throaty too. It was really fun to play around with.



WAIT -- I just looked them up with Google!



They're still in business: http://www.davisdieseldevelopment.com



Very interesting.....

 

[rbattelle]

Cool! Now if DavisDiesel would just come out with a supercharger... .



-Ryan

 

[KBennett]

A quote from this page

http://www.davisdieseldevelopment.com/gallery/closelook.htm

-

How about the black exhaust?

Eighteen wheel diesel trucks often put out black sooty exhaust. Your dieselized model engine will too. You can handle the soot that’s trapped in the exhausted oil with a piece of hardware store tubing over your muffler’s exhaust outlet wire-tied to a landing gear strut below the model. It’ll only cost 200-300 rpm and the model stays cleaner as the sooty exhaust oil exits down the tube.

-

Little did they know when they wrote this that there are guys out there that are trying to make MORE smoke :-laf

I have a couple old Cox motors laying around and will have to give this a try.