Very cool. Hmmmm - wait a minute. No visible camshaft or valves?

The worst thing about doing this would be the pride to other people's understanding of your pride ratio.

Do they still make the visible V8? That would be cool to pick up for my munchkins.

Is this what Audi was originally testing in their R8s donkeys?

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how's that for cotomer sevis?

@Ben Wojdyla: Cool, this may show up for an 11th birthday next month.

Yes they still make the visable V8 Around $75 still cool

@Ben Wojdyla: So Ben, are you taking orders now? Careful, or Wert may feel compelled to relocate you to Bangalor and send you to the Berlitz "English as a Second Language (Kwik-E-Mart Edition)" seminar.

I'm afraid I'd screw up coloring it

And whens the last time you saw a cooling fan on a V12?

the intake manifold reminds of a V8 Taurus SHO.

I tried to build a paper pendulum clock once in my youth, ambitious Asian that I am. I did enough cutting, folding, and gluing my fingers together to warrant a stay at a prominent mental institution.

6 years of recovering from my mother's most sadistic Christmas gift (made socks seem like a new Xbox) I think I'm ready to tackle something even more ambitious and tree-killing.

@Ben Wojdyla: I also had the companion visible Wankel rotary engine, but never could get the moving parts to work: the rotors would bind in the, uh, figure-eight shaped cavity. I don't think they make it any longer. It still made for a nice static display, on the shelf alongside my visible V8 and visible man and woman.

Mine would be covered with blood from paper cuts.

IIRC, Renwall's "Visible V8" was based on the Packard V8 that came out in '55 (& went away the following year, along with the *real* Packards.)

This, on the other hand, looks like it was based on the Origami V12.

looks like the kind of thing you do while in PRISON on a LIFE sentence...

Oh sure, it's a great design on paper....HAHAHahahaha

What is amazing is the wide selection of paper (card) models. Even, yes, cars and trucks. Even saw some F1 cars. These are not just simple, cheap models. Some a quite detailed and can run into the 100's of dollars. Do a search for "paper models" or "card models," it's a revelation.

Paper on paper friction, does that not equal fire? And yes, if that's the case, Audi did use this.

That's one nice v12, even if it is made out of paper.

The visible V8 is cool and all, but when I was 11, my Uncle bought me a visible Wankel motor for my birthday.

I once taped together a coelacanth over the course of a 12-hour shift. Man oh man would I like to have that job back!

@CafeRacer1200: Did your's work (in motion)?; mine never did (see post above @Charles_Barrett). Parts got in the way of each other, but it was still a cool model.

Oh, and unless my memory has totally left the building, I think they also made a visible turbo four-cylinder based on the Ford 2.3.

@Phusee: Just what does one use to "tape together" a prehistoric fish... (gotta love this -- only at Jalopnik...!) Spill it Dude!

1. Crankshaft turning wrong way.
2. Crankshaft firing order TOTALLY off from anything slightly realistic.
3. Stupid.

Will it blend?

@Charles_Barrett:

Heh. I don't suppose it would disappoint you to learn that it was a paper model of said coelacanth?

On the other hand, this concept of miracle medical tape might just have legs (as would the earthworms I'd do my initial testing with.)

@Phusee: Awe... I was picturing you as the behind-the-scenes guy at some big-city Natural History Museum. Like the guy at the La Brea Tar Pits who spends his day pasting together mastodons and dire wolves...

Pushrods? What is this, a 1950s V12? I want to see a papercraft variable geometry, dual-overhead cam, 5-valve-per-cylinder V12.

Hey, if you're gonna go for it, why not go all out?

D for effort, and F for any real knowhow.
V-12 or V-8? The description says both.
For one thing, the cylinders are all firing in sequential order - WRONG! They, of course, fire opposite of each other in order to counterbalance the engine.

For another - the fan is rotating opposite the direction of the crankshaft. wrong. (unless it's a rare electric motor driven fan that runs opposite the rotation of the engine's crankshaft. (seen only in Tijuana taxi cabs so far)

.."12 rods.."
Hello???
Ever heard of intake AND exhaust???

Please - if you don't really know what you are talking about - keep it to yourself.

PLEASE

GUYS!! STOOOPP it!! I can't believe eveyone mised this- this is a CAD model on a flat screen with someone's hads *in front of* the screen PRETENDING to rotate it, and this "process" filmed by a somewhat shaky camcorder.

Wow. No one caught that so far?

HEY! censorship

Where's my post pointing out it's fake?

I am lazy today can, Can I just build the V4 instead ? ....