Here's another piston driven engine. >>>> The largest internal combustion engine ever built is the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C - a 14 cylinder, 2 stroke, turbocharged diesel engine that was designed to power the Emma Maersk, the largest container ship in the world. It weighs 2300 tonnes, and when running at 102rpm produces 109,000bhp, consuming some 13.7 tonnes of fuel each hour.<<<<
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I like the turbine engine idea...
Didn't the SR-71 engine have no moving parts at supersonic speed? I remember something about that it utilized the airpressure to spontaneously combust once the fuel was applied...
If I find more info, I'll post (as long as we're off topic)
ohhh did I read it wrong??? it's been a long day thanks scott
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14 inch rusted Keystones, tired leaking 302, poorly applied custom landau top, wally world special audio system. It could always be worse, it could be a yugo!
14 inch rusted Keystones, tired leaking 302, poorly applied custom landau top, wally world special audio system. It could always be worse, it could be a yugo!
14 inch rusted Keystones, tired leaking 302, poorly applied custom landau top, wally world special audio system. It could always be worse, it could be a yugo!
Didn't the SR-71 engine have no moving parts at supersonic speed? I remember something about that it utilized the airpressure to spontaneously combust once the fuel was applied...
If I find more info, I'll post (as long as we're off topic)
The sr used a kerosene based fuel that was at something like -100*. It was used in part to help cool the plane at mach 8 (or however fsat it went). -P.
if I remember correctly it also had to be refuled immediately after takeoff....
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yeah i remembered hearing it actually leaks while on the ground but seals itself up once hauling ass in the air.
still cant figure out why those zillion horse cargo ship motors dont spin up past 100 RPM..... very surprizing at those low speeds they can even stay running, let alone make all that power. and two stroke diesel? wouldnt that be super polluting?
Those ship motors are so damned big, that the piston and connecting rod are probably 7 or 8 feet long. Now you know good and well that they don't balance those parts like they do on a small block Ford engine, so if that engine gets over a couple hundred RPM then it would shudder that whole boat. They don't care about hp anyway. They just need lots and lots of torque.
Those ship motors are so damned big, that the piston and connecting rod are probably 7 or 8 feet long. Now you know good and well that they don't balance those parts like they do on a small block Ford engine, so if that engine gets over a couple hundred RPM then it would shudder that whole boat. They don't care about hp anyway. They just need lots and lots of torque.
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pff, for as much money as one of them things cost it better be balanced lol
i know diesels dont rev high anyways, i just would think it would have to spin faster than 100rpms to stay running, at least like 500 or something. i dunno, it boggles my mind. just think, if you drop a bolt while working on it you can just open a hatch, climb in and get it
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Okay what engine runs on Diesel, is started with a small rope, has a stroke of about two feet, a bore of 2 feet, no connecting rods, no crankshaft, no exhaust valves, and only three moving parts other than the single injector?
Thumpin - I give up...what's the answer?!?
I keep reading "no connecting rods, no crankshaft, no exhaust valves" and thinking its a logic question of sorts...
a but do you know what those huge ship motors run on
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ok now, they run on our used motor oil and gear oil and grease that where your oil goes after it leaves the parts store or where ever you drop it off at
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