One for Blade and Perkles - Model Porsche flat-6 engine

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One for Blade and Perkles - Model Porsche flat-6 engine

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6000 hours to build apparently.


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Where do I get one ?
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Blade wrote:Where do I get one ?
Group buy? (nod)
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Re: One for Blade and Perkles - Model Porsche flat-6 engine

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I only took 300 on a proper build,sounds amazing dosent it :)
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kiwikrasher wrote:
Blade wrote:Where do I get one ?
Group buy? (nod)
Yeah let's do it
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Now to put it in an RC car?!
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As long as its not mental money I would love to buy a kit like that and build it with my two lads.
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6000 hours even at minimum wage is £42,000. :D

You can buy working engine kits at a few places, Blade.

http://www.hemingwaykits.com/acatalog/I ... gines.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.theengineersemporium.co.uk/c ... gkits.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: One for Blade and Perkles - Model Porsche flat-6 engine

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Cheers Duke great info (y) I really fancy one of those kits. May an Christmas box for a winter project .
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