best wishes
Iain
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How about this engine in a locost? Would maybe need to slightly adjust the strenght of the chassis though.
http://www.metal-club.org/12-Cylinder.html
not quite as big as that but more our style of car has a 12 cylinder air cooled engine out of a tank hooked up to a bus transmission and hand beaten
steel body VERY BRUTAL LOOKING
best wishes
Iain
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Has been posted before..........something about a builder thinking of fitting robin hood fitting one!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL
I think I saw Chris Barry walking around in the crank case of something like that on Massive Engines on Discovery. I think it was in an enormous
container ship.
I thought turbines were more efficient when going for power that big... am I wrong?
Don't generally need the extra refinement (less vibration) and greater shp figures-for-less-space-occupied provided by a GT on a containder ship
as these advantages are outweighed by the higher initial cost. Big rock crushers like the one bookmarked further up are made out of less expensive
materials than yer average fan-in-a-can
I went on a US container ship heading for Felixstowe (I was with my neighbour, who was a river pilot) - while standing on the bridge of this immense
ship, I saw a little plate that showed the engine details...
single engine, 4 cylinder, reciprocating mass 100+ tons!
The thing about these huge diesels is that they use the cheapest fuel oil imaginable - it's like filtered crude. They have to heat it before
it's fluid enough to go through the pipes to the engine!
rgds
David
by Christ thats a bit of a monster! Imagine taking it for an oil change down your local garage!
different tack but the same theme, for a while now i have been trying to find a large piston, have seen a polished example out of a spitfire plane, looking for something about 1m to .5m across anybody any ideas!
Try looking in Yellow Pages for ship engine mechanics/repairers... they may have an example with, say, a small end gone that's no use to
them...
David
a coffee table piston, macspeedy?!
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Originally posted by Browser
Don't generally need the extra refinement (less vibration) and greater shp figures-for-less-space-occupied provided by a GT on a containder ship as these advantages are outweighed by the higher initial cost. Big rock crushers like the one bookmarked further up are made out of less expensive materials than yer average fan-in-a-can
Now this would be a hell of an engine for a Locost. If my calculations are correct the
displacement works out at something like 113 litres!
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Originally posted by Browser
Now this would be a hell of an engine for a Locost. If my calculations are correct the displacement works out at something like 113 litres!
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Originally posted by macspeedy
different tack but the same theme, for a while now i have been trying to find a large piston, have seen a polished example out of a spitfire plane, looking for something about 1m to .5m across anybody any ideas!