Centaur Engine

pgp001 · Post by **pgp001** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:21 pm

Has anybody on here built the Centaur 60cc horizontal open crank engine.
It was a deign by E.T. Westbury which featured in the UK magazine "Model Engineer" in 1957.

I would be interested to hear any good or bad experiences with this engine before I start making it.

Phil UK

GaryHart · Post by **GaryHart** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:36 am

Phil,
Mostly finished one, still need to make some changes on the governor linkage. Do you have all the castings? I had to fab the carburator and governor. Don't recall any big problems. Not sure the cooling system on mine is going to be adequate.
There is a picture at: http://tinyurl.com/d3fmm

Gary
Washington state,
USA

Allan · Post by **Allan** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:16 pm

Gary,
WOW! That is gorgeous. Nice work.

Allan

pgp001 · Post by **pgp001** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:38 pm

That is some finish you have got on the engine parts, very impessive and it has given me a standard to aim for.
Well done.

Phil