Welcome back to the Intercooler podcast, everybody. The Car Podcast, powered by Car Finance Specialist JBR Capital. This is episode 276 with Dan Proser and Andrew Frankel. I've got a whole list of things here, Andrew that I want to talk about today. But first of all, we have a new desk prop. We do. And that's not very helpful for those of you, and it's the vast majority of people who are just listening to this. Yes. But if you're watching on YouTube, you'll see that there's a model engine in front of us. Andrew seems very proud of this model engine. Well, yes because... Guess who built the model. Was it you? It was me. All by myself. It's a Christmas present from my brother. And what a fine Christmas present it was. A great gift. Yes. It's a flat engine. It seems to have six cylinders. Funny that. And I think I can see the word Porsche on the side. Yes, and it seems to

the big fan. Very distinctive, isn't it? So, but it's a working model, isn't it? It's a completely working model. If you press the button, it's... Oh, blimey. Oh, hang, I'll press it again, and you'll get the engine sounds. This really is not great for the... people just listen to this on their

on their, on their, uh, on their, uh, on their

telephones. engine sounds. This really is not great for the offer. People just listen to this on their,

on their, on their, uh, on their, uh, on their, that's good. Um, but yeah, it's a completely, well, it's completely, all the bits that are in a 9-11 engine are rendered there in plastic. Yeah. Um, But if you want to know how such an engine goes together and all the bits that it contains, that's what it's got. It's got, you know, everything, it's got crankshaft, pistons, conrods, vals, camshafts. It's all in there. Spark little spark plugs with little lights at the end which light up in the correct firing order. That's great. So you learn how an engine goes together and how it works.

Yeah. Particularly a Porsche engine. Yes. And it takes, it took me a fairly intense weekend to do it.

And at the end of it, you get to press a button. And to your utter astonishment, you see pistons start to move.

It works. Wow. And valves start to open and close

and little lights come up on the end of

I didn't believe for a moment it would work

or it would just eat itself or something

because I am a total mechanical incompetent

but it works

which just goes to show how good the instructions must be

I really do like the idea of assembling something and getting a genuine impression, an idea of how it goes together and how it functions. I think that's really cool. So my next step, and I may have to wait until I retard to do this, I want to do it with a proper engine. You can get these, I don't know if you've ever been to sort of country shows, you get these static engines. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These sort of single cylinder things, which are designed to sort of run a

bowsaw in a field somewhere, which means basically it's an engine which can just run all by

itself, it doesn't have to be in anything. And they are, I think, the simplest engines that

exist, because they've only got one of everything. Yeah. And so I want to build that.

I really want to build a functioning. I mean, so many of my mates could build a V12, what I couldn't even begin to do that. No, no, no, no. But I'd just like to build something which, rather than just sort of pretending to work, actually does work. That would be cool. And this is an official Porsche thing, isn't it? It's an official Porsche product.

Yeah, if you just go on, well, if you just put Porsche flat six model engine, it'll come up. Yeah. But it is a, it is a Porsche thing. Probably explains why these structures are so good. And I think it's there, I think they're about 137 pounds. So they're not cheap, but, you know, it's the cheapest flat six you'll ever it is isn't it yeah and um i can i can well imagine it's a happy weekend just sort of

engrossed in this thing and not think about anything else and yeah maybe there's something

on in the background i mean it does turn a crankshaft so it will have a power and a torque output

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