Now THIS is an engine!!!

[smithpa68]

Now this is an engine!!!

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/

[Savant]

big coin for that hunk

[deathBOB]

jesus...

5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm

Simply amazing...

[Sabres]

that horsepower is off the charts fricken amazing

[Chacal]

You know it's a serious engine when there's two flights of stairs on it.

[Sabres]

Originally posted by Chacal
You know it's a serious engine when there's two flights of stairs on it.

Affirmative!

SO who's gonna wigger rig their car for it? =O

[smithpa68]

How did they even measure the horsepower and torque??

That site is from Bath which is only about 10 miles away from mine

ROLF. 10 minutes away from your bath.

[deathBOB]

NOw what I want to see is the turbocharger... Probably some dual industrial turbine set up...

Originally posted by deathBOB
NOw what I want to see is the turbocharger... Probably some dual industrial turbine set up...

Turbines for a diesel engine? o_O
Why do you need turbines? I thought turbines were the engines where the air moves through it. How would you burn water running thorugh it exactly?

[deathBOB]

Well.. it says its turbocharged... and a turbocharge is basically a small turbine... i would imagien a turbocharger on this scale would be more like an industrial turbine...

[Savant]

Originally posted by deathBOB
Well.. it says its turbocharged... and a turbocharge is basically a small turbine...

Correct, and its the exhaust gases that spin the turbo not water @(...:...:...)@ the energy from this turbo propells a pump that forces air into the intake part of the engine

most diesel engines have 1