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by Philip Powell on December 10, 2006
This is possibly the most amazing scale model ever made. An Italian mechanical engineer whose name is (not too clear from the link) Pierre Scatti spent three years of his spare time making molds and drawings, copying photos, to create a precise working model of a Ferrari 312B complete with fuel-injected, dry-sump, 1000 cc (not 100 cc as I first wrote) flat-12: 24 valves, 5 gears and reverse. It took 20,000 hours of sweat and dedication because of Pierre's wish to build a genuine Ferrari at scale size. In his younger years he watched the race cars in Italy and dreamed of having their sounds (music to many of us) in his living room. What makes this model so amazing is that it actually works. With no electric motors motivating, the 1/3 engine fires up just like a real one. Click the YouTube link, hear Pierre explain what it took, then glory to a 1/3 engine that sounds like the big guy. Oh, and by the way, he wants to sell it in order to begin another scale replica. Love or madness?
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Vote for Italian Genius Duplicates Ferrari 312B In 1/3 Scale and Yes, It Runs!:
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Rating: 7.33 out of 3 vote(s) cast.
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Response from:
Harley Ferguson
(12/11/06 6:32am)
Response from:
(03/02/07 2:40am)
accually you are wrong here with two respect's, the scale model is 103 cc not 1,000cc and Pierre Scatti is french not italian, the reason it is 103cc not 1000cc is because it is the dementions that are decreasing, not the volume, so the hight, width and length all are scaled to 3, that makes the vomume scaled by 27, do you see how it works? so 103 cc is resiable, it is not exactly to scale but it is very close
Response from:
scott
(03/02/07 2:52am)
i would like to point out that you have made two mistakes, firstly Pierre Scatti is french, not italian, and secadly that the displacment of the engine is 103 cc, not 1,000cc, i will explain how this works, as you might have been confuzed, the displacment of space is scaled by dimentions, not volume, so if the hight, width, and length meserments are all scaled by 3 that would mean each measerment devides the displacement by 3, 1/3 the hight, the length and the width, your accually deviding the displacment by 27, not by 3, 3x3=9 9x3=27, the scale of the engine is not perfect, it is accually off by about 8cc but it is close enough, the important thing has not changed though which is the power to wait ratio
(sorry for my bad english)
(sorry for my bad english)
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That 1/3 scale is really something! But did you drop a zero? You wrote "100 cc flat-12: 24 valves," 100cc is about 6.1 cu. in. divided by 12 and one cylinder is 0.5 cu. 1n. Not impossible, but if the original was a 3000cc, 1000cc sounds a lot more reasonable. TokioOkie
-- In the video the builder describes it as a 100 cc flat-12, so I simply quoted him without thinking. English is not his first language and he may have meant 1000 c.c.'s. Thanks for the heads-up.
Philip