You will need to go to our facebook page for the pictures, http://www.facebook.com/clementsracingproducts Thought you guys might enjoy seeing photos of my square piston creation. This little engine was never intended to be a race engine. This was an engineering exercise for myself, I just wanted to see if I could do it and make it run. As you can see by the photos it is a piston port engine, rectangular piston, rectangular bore and employs the use of a scotch yoke crankshaft. You will notice where the carburetor is on one end of the engine and the spark plug is located on the other end, also the little shiny silver exhaust port on the one side of the engine. Opposite of the exhaust port is the PTO end of the crankshaft. For my purposes I bolted on a home built billet flywheel with rare earth magnets installed and I used a 3hp Briggs & Stratton ignition coil for spark. I had the block, cylinder and piston all hard anodized and ran 10 oz. of 2-stroke oil per gallon in my fuel. Next I used 2 large ‘C’ clamps to clamp the engine to a work bench, attached a fuel line, wrapped a rope around the flywheel and gave it a yank, it ran at a low rpm for about 20 seconds when I shut it off, that’s the only noise it’s ever made. BTW, if you’re wondering what I used to make square piston rings, I cut up some used Mazda apex seals and installed them in the piston. I hope you enjoy my warped innovation.
