What an engine!

[bum-man]

The most powerful engine in the world is also the most effiecient when compared to an normal automobile (excluding hybrids).
nice little page of it: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/

*insert evil smile*

[drakkie]

damn i gotta have that one in my car!!! Man , its huge




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[cuntukimushroom]

WTF WTF WTF 108'000HP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! stupid chinese how on earth do the get that into a car bloody hell man OMG OMG hah and its diesel

[Sweeney921]

sorry, but thats not going in a car.......it's for large tankers.

[drakkie]

jep i know it wont really fit, but makes my car just a bit faster. Its a diesel jeah , so thats nice and cheap



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[racerx]

The 14 cylinder version's displacement is 25,480 liters!!!! That's 24,480,000cc!!! That is friggin huge. It makes some insane torque per liter, 220.1064 lbft/liter to be exact. Although it produces only 4.2747 horsepower per liter though. (These calculations are for the 14 cylinder 108,920hp one)

[henk4]

If you read the specs carefully you will also note that thermal efficiency is claimed to be over 50%. A normal petrol car engine may reach a meagre 20% or so.
There is also competetion in the shape of the 14 cylinder MAN-B&W 1498MCC-C, but here the 14 cylinder version produces 108910 BHP, the 10 extra BHP for the Sulzer providing a notably better accelaration for the ship , these engines are not for big tankers, who may need less than 50000 BHP for the biggest ones currently being built. Only containerships now need these big outputs, as their service speed exceeds 25 knots (just short of 50 kph), while tankers need only 14-15 knots. Hydrodynamic resistance has similar characteristics as aerodynamics, so these extra 10 knots require heaps of power, in speed of the more favourable hull shape of containerships.

[cls12vg30]

Hah..never saw a crankcase with ladder rungs before.

[Egg Nog]

Everything considered, the efficiency of this engine is pretty incredible.

More than five-and-a-half million lbs-ft of torque

[henk4]

and you also have to realise that the fuel used needs to be heated before being injected. Under normal circumstances Heavy Fuel Oil (380CsT) is solid. It the remainder of the almost complete refinery process, extracting as much as possible lighter products from the crude oil.

[Spastik_Roach]

And I thought the SL55 had lots of Torque...

[Matra et Alpine]

The most powerful engine in the world is also the most effiecient when compared to an normal automobile (excluding hybrids).
nice little page of it:

WOW deja vu.

posted this in another thread a couple of days ago

In that thread it was pointed out that there is actually a MORE powerful ship engine out there