This project is to build a:

Small, simple, modern, reliable, using as many as possible standard available parts

Diesel engine.

The one idea that I thought was really good from the tiger tank engine from WW2 was the fact that the mane crank bearing was a roller bearing and that it ran round the radius of the crank.

With a small adaptation to this idea by making a bearing cage that then connects directly to the heads with long rods, I am hopping to be able to reduce the amount of lading on the crank case there by reducing crank case mass.

The next idea is from the Hawker Tempest. It had a Napier sleeve valve engine. The advantage of this method of valving is that one dose not has poppet valves trying to close at high RPM’s against high inlet manifold pressures. This method of valving is simple mechanical shutting of ports, regardless of what the inlet manifold pressure is.

An example of a diesel with an 8:1 inlet manifold pressure is the Napier Nomad, but that was a two-stroke engine, this will be a four stroke.

To attain the 8:1 inlet pressure, I am hopping to use two turbo charges in series, as in the Diesel Max dragster of JCB.