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Mike (Busone)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 11:00 pm: | |
I was just watching the History Channel. They had a show about big machines. They showed a 11 cylnder diesel engine made by MAN. It is a marine engine. Just one cylnder is over 3'. The tech even took the camera man into the engine through a service door. It produces over 100,000 HP. I seem to remember somebody posting a picture of one of these on here a while back. |
Al Johnstad
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2005 - 9:23 pm: | |
Here's the link to that site. Don't think it will fit into a bus. LOL
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/ |
pat young
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 5:13 am: | |
Anybody remember the site for that Hyundai diesel? I have pics if anybody wants. They show the 6 story block, the crank, and the cylinders, and a blue whale trying to father children in cylinder #2. (That part is not pretty)
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FAST FRED
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 8:00 am: | |
While SIZE has an interest ,
the mechanical marvels are the really complex engines.
I used to think it was great putting 52 inches of manifold pressure to an alchohol injected air craft engine that was 3 rows of 9 cylinders each.
Some even had 4 rows of 9 cylinders.
But the Russians have us beat hands down!
Their Zvezda radial Diesels , used on Raketa class hydrofoils (www.hydrofoils.org) are the KING of complex!!
With 7 banks of 6,8,or 15 cylinders and almost 3.5 liters per cylinder there is a lot of engine in a very small space, putting it in the power density of smaller gas turbines.
The largest at 112 cylinders has a power output of 7350kw.
42 , 56 or 112 cylinders!! and they have been operating them for decades.
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