New Engine being developed in NZ

[ave8rr]

Neil Hintz, the NZ manufacturer of reduction drives for Subaru engines has a new 2 stroke 80 hp engine under development.

 

 

 

[fly_tornado]

That video is a couple of years old, last I heard he abandoned it

 

 

[Soleair]

Oh dear. Just when I was getting all excited. . .

 

Bruce

 

 

[bexrbetter]

The guy who developed that for Hintz is a nutcase for all the right reasons, he is a prolific, obsessed 2 stroke engine inventor who has made every weirdo combination you could imagine and then some, I'll see if I can find some of his stuff.

 

 

[sfGnome]

This is nothing to do with the content of the video, but while I was watching it, I discovered the 'sub-titles' button on the U-tube player. Turn them on. The errors will make your day!

 

 

[Guest steve-nz]

Haha, love it!!!! Never seen that feature before.

 

 

[eightyknots]

This is nothing to do with the content of the video, but while I was watching it, I discovered the 'sub-titles' button on the U-tube player. Turn them on. The errors will make your day!

Those subtitles are so inaccurate, it is hilarious.

 

I have lived in Enzed for a few years and every time I come back from Australia, it takes me half a day to 'tune in' to the accent here. But surely Kiwi English is not that bad so that a speech-t0-text conversion software does such a lousy job.

 

 

[Russ]

The guy who developed that for Hintz is a nutcase for all the right reasons, he is a prolific, obsessed 2 stroke engine inventor who has made every weirdo combination you could imagine and then some, I'll see if I can find some of his stuff.

Hintz was behind the "Sub4" engines......they were a failure.

 

Then he got into redrives........issues there

 

Then he got into component design/construction.......issues there

 

Many folks found that when their purchase had problems, engaging with Hintz was not a good outcome......for them. ( he usually blamed the buyer, or the buyers engineer, even a brand new purchase, never used, that had a defect was a sh!t fight to get help, more often than not, the buyer just outsourced the component, and copped the costs )

 

Re packaging, return freight costs, transit delays, etc etc, red tape ( customs ) all these make the problem even greater. One can find ones self grounded for a long long time.

 

Some yrs back a oz chap was the go to man for problems etc, he eventually stopped.??

 

But.......there are folks, that have had good experiences with Hintz.......go figure.

 

I for one, have had good and bad dealings with this chaps products, it's a it of a lottery .

 

 

[bexrbetter]

That's nice Russ, not sure why you replied to me with that lot, I only mentioned the guy behind the 2 stroke's design.