It would seem that what you have stumbled on is a rare and little known limited edition briggs and stratton that never released after a legal stouch with the co developer. It was intended to be a limited edition engine for a Shumacher signiture series ride on mower that contractual obligations prevented him from releasing. You should hang on to it!
I know this is an old video but worth mentioning for future. IF you ever stumble upon engineering samples It is in the best interest of the collector community to leave it be. The chances of obtaining samples is compared to having king tuts mummy in your bedroom. They normally destroy them. Heads are a dime a dozen from production units. Samples are not.
Well, it was a nice display worth much more then if it was working. Never premed, original decals, everything looking really nice and minty, I would have paid you $500 and that's a lowball offer. Every nut and bolt you took off it decreased the value as you spun it off. Omg, I wish I found that at the swap.. Nice find!!
I reckon the "FD" stands for "For Demonstration" and it would have been a prototype or something like that, one that was to model the outside appearance and not be properly functional.
I agree with wesellyoutractors, i dont remember the Intek coming out until like 2000 or 2001. If that date "code" says 98 and theres so much shit missing off it, it's probly an evaluation model and/or first attempt at that style engine. It makes sense too because they obviously wouldnt need internal parts to see how the design of it would work or look. Pretty cool and rare if you ask me. I'd fix it
When I took a small engines shop class this summer (I showed the teacher one of your videos, he seemed somewhat impressed) Briggs, Honda, and a few other manufactures donate a lot of engines to the class. Most of them never even turn over. They are turned in the cutaways or we tear them up and down again like to simulate a rebuild.
If you find an engine like this, it usually has been run on their dyno at their facility (yours might not have). They do not use the stock mufflers or gas tanks when they do various experimental tests with them on dyno (usually not certification tests). They have fuel supplied into the dyno cell through pipes and they use designated mufflers with fittings to connect exhaust gas analyzers. When they are done testing, they put the production style muffler back on and reconnect the carburetor the fuel tank. They normally have to destroy these special engines after testing, but sometimes an employee will be allowed to take one home on good faith that they wont sell it. The reason that they can't re-sell them is because they are not certified by the EPA for meeting emissions standards. That doesn't mean that the engine failed to actually meet the standards, its just that the particular family of engines had not been certified yet. That's why the engine is not supposed to be sold.
i think that is a very rare find right there! i think it was briggs expirimental version of the engines to come after 2000. because i have a 1998 briggs and it more closely resembles the older briggs flatheads. from the 80s. i think someone stripped all the good parts out of it. hell put a good rod, piston cam, pushrods and lifters in it and you'd have a practically brand new engine for 1/8th the cost new!
i beleave its an engine that would have bin sent to componies to mock up things like moter mounts exause stuff like that to make snow blowers and pumps and what ever elce that engin was in
Its like u guys already eluded to; it seems to me too that this must be some sorta display or pre-production test model or something to that extent. I know Ive never seen anything like this myself before; so yea it does seem a little strange for it to have no rocker arms, etc. ur guess is as good as mine at this point lol.....
what it looks like to me is false advertisment, they may of got it from an engine shop as you say it was for display so it never ran it was just there for show, then someone buys it, takes out all the parts they want, seal it up with a new gasket and say it just dosent have any compression just to get rid of it.
I guess you still did alright. 35 got you a new muffler, crank, block, head, partially stripped but still, Magneto ?, sheet metal , and throttle / governor just to name a few thing. The crank alone is worth more than you paid.
I'll bet it is for "mock up" when a company is developing a product. This was they can see how things fit. I'll bet the block (or something else) is a reject
Nope. These engines are usually based entirely off of existing engines and the engineers just made a small change to it, so they were testing that small change before making it production spec. Say they slightly changed the piston crown, that would put the engine into what the EPA classifies as a different "emissions family". They need to test the changes in their dyno cell for things like emissions compliance and power performance. Until a new emissions family for the new specifications is created and certified for complying with emissions standards, they can't sell that version of the engine.
