Meet Sōichirō, the fully working engine that is developed by only one 16 year old guy #engines

In this Post, I am going to show you a project called Sōichirō. He’s a one-man project. Piston, Rod, Crankshaft, Valvetrain, Cylinderhead, all kinds of Bearings, the Turbo and every little not so small part in this engine is completely developed by myself.

But before I show you my work, I just want you to tell why this engine’s name is Sōichirō…

“Success represents the 1% of your work which results out of 99% failure”

The man who said this, Sōichirō Honda, is my biggest idol. And he’s the guy I have the most respect for, because he followed his dreams. I don’t want to be like him. I like his personality, the fact that he loved what he did and his culture. He’s the guy who helped me pushing the boundaries of the possible. He motivated me to go to my limit and beyond by looking back at his story of life.

If I may introduce myself: My name is Glenn, I am 16 years old and live in a fairly small city in Germany. I didn’t study (yet) nor visited any special courses. I still go to school.

I started with this project in September. The goal was to create an engine that runs incredibly smooth, has a lot of power while consuming little space, and can provide both Fuel efficiency as well as Sportiness. The result of some weeks of thinking and doing sketches is the goal to develop a engine with the following specs:

SPECS

Dry-sump lubricated 1.2 litre 60° V6 with Direct Injection, Bi-Turbocharging , a Hybrid-system and a full variable(Timing and Lift) DOHC Valvetrain. That results in a peak RPM of 10500 and a max. boost pressure of 2 bar. That, combined with the hybrid-system should bring out about 350HP, maybe more, maybe less.

Three months later, I done a fairly big amount of work on my project. Hours of developing every not so little part of a piece in the engine were spent during the time that was left after coming home from school and in the weekends. I am very happy and proud to come this far. There is still much left, the Drivetrain is not completed yet, I decided that the Valvetrain need’s to get a complete redesign because I was not happy with the current one and things like wiring, the Turbos, bearings, screws and connecting pieces are still not done. But every day, I’m getting closer to my goal: My own engine.

I don’t like what I do. I don’t do this because I have too much free time. I don’t do this just to get a job at a car manufacturer. I do this because I love it. I live for doing this.

Call me a moron, someone who want’s to do something he can’t do, someone who does everything wrong. I know that I do everything wrong. When I’m looking at the first design of the piston, I can’t believe I was so dumb because it’s very bad. That was 3 months ago. What am I going to say in 2 years? I don’t know, but I’m sure I will know that everything I do now isn’t good enough. But I’m learning out of every second I work on Sōichirō.

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When there’s much progress, I will come up with another post to keep you updated!

Glenn :)

PS: Sorry for my bad English :D