The Smithsonian Motor-Works Moving Engine Model – $31 USD
This is the Smithsonian Motor-Works kit to build a moving model of a four-stroke, four-cylinder engine. It’s designed as an educational tool that people…
Engineering
A $5,000 Coffee Table Made From A Cosworth DFX INDY Racing Engine
This is a Cosworth DFX INDY racing engine that’s been converted into a glass-topped coffee table, and it now has the eye-watering sticker price…
Film: The Spark Plug Story
This short film offers an excellent 15 minute history lesson into one of the internal combustion engine’s simplest but most important parts: the humble…
The One – A New Electric Motorcycle By Curtiss Motorcycles
This design brief was written by JT Nesbitt of Curtiss Motorcycles, the lead engineer behind the Curtiss One motorcycle shown here. When possible we…
A Highly-Detailed Fiat 1100 Driving School Cutaway Model
This unusual Fiat 1100 driving school model was made by Werner Degener to give driving students a detailed understanding of exactly how cars work…
Full Film: Master Hands – A Detailed Look At Chevrolet Manufacturing In Pre-WWII America
This is the first 4K resolution scan of Master Hands, a film described as a classic capitalist realist drama showing the manufacture of Chevrolet automobiles…
Documentary: The Design, Development, And Construction Of The Rolls-Royce Merlin Engine
This documentary shows the design and development of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine starting with early prototypes and small models, following the process through to…
Gabb Accro-Matic Vintage WWII Radial Engine Compression Testing System
This is a complete Gabb Accro-Matic radial engine compression testing system that dates back to the Second World War. Rather than having to test…
JRL Cycles Lucky 7 – A Radial Engined Production Motorcycle
Editor’s Note: We don’t typically feature choppers on Silodrome as it’s not really our wheelhouse, however we do make exceptions to this every…
Officially Licensed Porsche 911 Flat-Six Engine Model
This is a detailed model of the original 1966 Porsche 911 flat-six engine, all internal parts move just like they do in the…
Tuning For Speed – A Book By Legendary Vincent and Formula One Engineer Phil Irving
Tuning For Speed is a book by legendary engineer Phil Irving about how to performance tune motorcycle engines, if you recognise the name Phil Irving but…
This Lincoln V12 Is Almost Certainly The Cheapest V12 In the World At $1,200 USD
After some quick research I’m convinced that this Lincoln V12 is the cheapest V12 for sale anywhere on earth at this moment in…
