Reddit Reddit reviews Haynes Build Your Own Internal Combustion Engine

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Haynes Build Your Own Internal Combustion Engine
Construct a fully working model of a car engineFeatures electric motor with over 100 parts, and illuminating spark plugsOn/off controller has built-in sound chip that reproduces the sound of an engine startingChallenging and fun for the budding mechanicFor ages 12 and up
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10 Reddit comments about Haynes Build Your Own Internal Combustion Engine:

u/PM_ME_UR_GNOME · 8 pointsr/Justrolledintotheshop

Here ya go: https://amzn.com/B006H4JEQO

Also here's the V8 one: https://amzn.com/B00GJYE0S4

u/nycsportster · 5 pointsr/cars

I shit you not I bought a Craftsman see thru plastic engine kit made for children when I was 20 to better understand how everything works. Honestly it really helped me understand the inner workings.

Edit edit: I know it's not Craftsman but this may have been it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006H4JEQO/ref=redir_mdp_mobile

u/agent_of_entropy · 3 pointsr/cars

Get a Haynes Build Your Own Internal Combustion Engine and put it together. Then buy an old Honda Civic, get the Haynes manual for it, a good set of cheap tools (subscribe to their mailing list, they go on sale for $159 just about every holiday weekend) and go to town. By the time your ready to drive you'll know your Civic (and, by extension, all cars) inside and out.

u/LORD_STABULON · 3 pointsr/videos

This would be interesting, though I wonder what the best way of reducing the scope would be.

One thought might be to explain the internal combustion engine itself. For example, an animation like this can give you a pretty good intuitive understanding of how they work. Taking it a step further, you can just buy a $40 kit on Amazon to go and actually build your own.

Stuff like that will go a long way toward taking the magic out of "gas goes in, car goes forward" but it won't do much to help you understand the mysterious language spoken by the people who work in a real auto repair shop. I'm a very far cry from a car expert, but I do have some friends that know quite a bit, and I've done some medium-sized repair tasks with their help. In my opinion, if you compare an engine to everything in the car except the engine, it's the "everything else" that is so much more opaque and difficult to understand.

What's even more interesting to me is the advent of the electric car. Compared to traditional gasoline or diesel engines, an electric motor is stupidly simple. I built my first electric motor in elementary school science class, and all the students needed was a length of copper wire, a fridge magnet, a plastic cup, and a small battery.

But if you take a car mechanic who's worked on gasoline-powered cars for decades and put them in front of a Tesla, they're not going to see a lot of familiar systems. No engine means no transmission, exhaust, or (traditional) coolant systems, and I'm sure many other things would be "missing" or completely redesigned to accommodate for and take advantage of the giant battery and electric motor.

So what's the equivalent of this video series for cars? It could be something like those animations or that DIY kit for the gasoline engine, but maybe the most helpful thing would be tutorial videos made by remote-controlled car enthusiasts who build miniaturized but fully-functional cars, both electric and gasoline. Then again, those might not be super helpful if those tiny cars use designs that only work for tiny cars which don't carry people or generate massive quantities of heat.

Comparing cars to computers is difficult though. The "magic" of a car might be the engine itself, or maybe all of that impenetrable jargon, but at some point you're just talking about "things you don't deeply understand" and not magic.

Computers, on the other hand, are just so much more complicated than cars. And when you combine computer hardware with software and the internet, it just becomes too much for any one person to understand.

Imagine a challenge where you have access to whatever heavy manufacturing equipment, tools, raw materials, and helping hands you need, but no reference books or internet. I bet there are people out there who could create a completely functional and mostly modern car within a day or two, because they understand the entire system from one end to the other, and the only thing that stops them from doing it is the physical and monetary hurdles. But if the goal was to build a computer from scratch that a random person can use to browse memes and post on Reddit, there's not a person in the world who could do it.

Any car built in the last 30 years has a computer in it that controls the engine and probably other stuff, so that's a catch. But fully functional cars existed long before computers, so in my mind it would't be mandatory to build that component.

u/BeastmasterDar · 3 pointsr/MechanicalEngineering

I wanted one of these when I was a kid. Might be a little above the ability of an 8 year old, most reviews say their 11/12 year old children built it without any help.

u/digadiga · 1 pointr/Parenting

Got it!

I used to do all my own repairs.

Now my six year old handles most of it. Takes ten times as long, but so worth it.

Your oldest boy is four. That is the age when my little guy help with replacing light fixtures, replacing light switches and assembling a ceiling fan for his room.

For my guy, it started off with a fascination of all things rotational, which transmogrified into an obsession with ceiling fan assembly and a model engine (It has tons of screws that required lots of screwing and unscrewing in a rotational manner.)

u/ailish · 1 pointr/IAmA

Legos are great for fostering creativity. You can never have enough. If you're looking for different ideas, though, you can get small working combustion engines to assemble yourself. Although I guess that might be a little advanced for a 3 year-old, but you can go through it with him slowly as his attention span allows. There's a v8 one too.

u/jon_mf_jones · 1 pointr/AskMechanics

You could also go with a model engine just ti get the idea of how things work. Saves space and is quite cheap. Haynes Build Your Own Internal Combustion Engine https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006H4JEQO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_8hVVDbSHC4PQ3

u/ihatechange · 1 pointr/Parenting

My little guy loved this:

http://www.amazon.com/Haynes-Build-Internal-Combustion-Engine/dp/B006H4JEQO/

Same age as yours. Most of it I had to assemble, which was sometimes difficult for him to understand. He loved the crank shaft/ piston assembly and the end result.

I use it in combination with some youtube videos that show the animated assembly of a standard inline 4.