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Posted by: scheung ® 11/20/2006, 18:19:23 Author Profile eMail author Edit

Hello, I'm a senior in biosystems engineering and my senior design team is looking for ways to connect 3 Briggs & Stratton 16 hp Vanguard engines together, I started looking at V-belt and timing belt, but I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on different ways to connecting those engines and how to select the right V-belt/ timing belt for this system (16 Hp, max torque of 24 ft*lb @ 2400rpm) Thanks

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Posted by: randykimball ® 11/21/2006, 00:19:16 Author Profile eMail author Edit

Well, "ah thinks maybe 'Detroit' abandoned the Vee belt for a rea-zion?" ... hummor is a good thing ... Seriously, .... Harley and "Detroit" went away from the vee belt and the chain for good reasons... go to what they did and you will be taking good advice. You would be doing what YEARS of experience and research accomplished with the stroke of a pin. ... for starters Vee belts eat power, and chains are heavy and dangerous but effective. The modern serpentine belt is quite effecient and has healed over the stretch and failure problems of years ago. Hey, the timming belt is driving multi-overhead-cams on many a high performance engine. If it was me, I pick a timming belt from a common engine that is about the length you need. Find out what pitch it is and get the required pulleys from your local power drive/bearing supply house. I'd run the engines side by side to a common shaft with bearing blocks between the engines, also from your local supply house. Why would I not pick a timming belt from a supply house? ... hey you KNOW that cam drive belt from the auto store will handle the job! .. and the price will be right because of the bulk sales. ... Remember to KISS it. (keep it simple, stupid) ...but, I'm not understanding why you don't use an old rebuilt Volkswagon "bug" engine... remember they are air cooled... and VERY reliable. ..extremely cheap to rebuild... ..a stock 1600cc - single carb. should get you about 55-60 HP if you get someone to polish out the heads. (I'd do them for you if you need) .... and you would have much better qualtity RPM control. Don't use a dual carb. they are too hard to tune and to keep running reliably ... you are talking to an old pro... ... the only thing keeping a 40 HP 1600 from 55-60 HP is the sorry fluid dynamics in the intake and exhaust passages in the heads. ... a simple and easy to fix task... makes a fine engine... !!! (used in airplanes with modifications for carb heat and altitude comp.).. I'm thinking an old Volks would burn about half the fuel of your multi-hard-to-match engine bank... See? If you don't match those engines exactly you will never get them to work together... one will always be over working and carrying the others some... it is not so easy to make work.. I humbly suggest you do not try that... big smile. Good luck. The worst suggestion of your lifetime may be the catalyst to the grandest idea of the century, never let suggestions go unsaid nor fail to listen to them.

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