You gotta check this out!!!!!! Possible engine swap?
02-03-2004, 09:57 PM
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You gotta check this out!!!!!! Possible engine swap?
02-04-2004, 12:16 AM
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uuuummmm...that's big. I knew there were some big engines out there, but that's freakin huge! and the torque...something like 5,000,000 ft/lbs! Sounds like a major electrical powerplant! I'm in awe. 
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Heck, just show me the wrench!
02-05-2004, 05:35 AM
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I've seen the 10 cylinder version on a container ship. It was a 50,000 bhp engine. Still 44 feet high but only about 60 feet long. The flywheel was around 24 tons. The prop shaft was about 2-3 feet in diameter. Those are direct drive engines. They run in either direction. So to go forward, the engine is cranked in one direction. To go in reverse, the engine is stopped and with the movement of one handle, the timing is changed and the engine is cranked in the reverse direction. Of course they are air start with four dedicated compressors online to provide start air for maneuvering. Valves are about the size of a soccer ball. The engines burn Bunker C or #6 Diesel which, when cold is like molasses or tar but runs like normal diesel when heated to 200* by steam. The turbo chargers are approximately 8 feet in diameter and they run twins. Without the turbos the engines only produce about 30-50% of their rated power output.
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I want those twin turbos! Mount 'em one on top of the other, and bolt them to the frame where the pickup bed used to be. Then chuck the head gasket and weld the head to block. 
02-12-2004, 09:39 PM
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It's my pot and I'll stir it if I want to. If you're not careful, I'll stir your's as well!
Sea Bass, way back in history when I was 'working my way around the world" I worked on a ship for a short while. Can't remember the HP but it was a 7 cylinder two stroke supercharged diesel engine. Max RPM was something like 600 rpm. Each piston weighed around one ton. It started on diesel but ran on heated bunker C. It was started using huge amounts of compressed air. There were about 5 compressors of different sizes and quite a few huge air tanks. During maneuvering it was quite common to have all compressors running until the pressure was built up again.
So maybe this engine is started the same way.
BTW Begle 1, you have it backwards. This engine could take that Gremlin thru the air intake and not even know it was there. I suspect that it would treat that Gremlin just like it would a large speck of dust.
So maybe this engine is started the same way.
BTW Begle 1, you have it backwards. This engine could take that Gremlin thru the air intake and not even know it was there. I suspect that it would treat that Gremlin just like it would a large speck of dust.
