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The best living room mechanical art I've seem was a 9-cylinder radial aircraft engine on the floor with 9 stub exhaust pipes supporting a glass top coffee table. Mabe a 356 without the fan shroud supporting the glass top on the velocity stacks?

Harlan Halsey wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 5:34 am The best living room mechanical art I've seem was a 9-cylinder radial aircraft engine on the floor with 9 stub exhaust pipes supporting a glass top coffee table. Mabe a 356 without the fan shroud supporting the glass top on the velocity stacks?

I sell engines to a guy who builds about two a year, this is one.

Hi Harlan
Ranson Webster has glass top engine table i think it is a 771 or 753.
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I helped Jacques and Mike build the motor. Now doing the final sheet metal fitting before powder coating.

What compression ratio did you build it to Bill?

Hi Harlan - stock 9.8/1. Used NOS Mahle 904 cylinders and pistons. Dot 2 cams on intake and exhaust. Valves 50 & 43, 9mm stems titanium.

Fully dressed 587/3 motor. Doubt it will ever look this good again.

The motor for the 904 project is complete. This is a new motor built from scratch. Retro Design 3D case and heads, original crank, Pauter rods, 9mm stem Ti valves (50mm intake & 43mm exhaust), NOS valve drive shafts/gears, pistons and cylinders. Weber 46IDA carbs. 904 flywheel. Speedco BV distributors and sheet metal. Assembly by Jacques LeFriant and Mike Young with a little help from me.

Very cool Bill, thanks for sharing