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ValuePack
04-30-2007, 05:01 PM
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/rta96c_crank.jpg

Shown is the 10cyl version. I can see Jasper building one of these in the garage of his townhouse.

"Some facts on the 14 cylinder version:
Total engine weight:2300 tons (The crankshaft alone weighs 300 tons.)
Length:89 feet
Height:44 feet
Maximum power:108,920 hp at 102 rpm
Maximum torque:5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm "

Total displacement is 25,480 liters(can we get that for a user rating?), and fuel consuption is 1,660 *gallons* per hour at it's most efficient setting. Why did I post this in the humorous section? Because I loled.

More pics and details: http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
TrickyDik
04-30-2007, 05:05 PM
What is the purpose of it?
ValuePack
04-30-2007, 05:36 PM
Marine applications. From the site: "These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships. Ship owners like a single engine/single propeller design and the new generation of larger container ships needed a bigger engine to propel them."
TrickyDik
04-30-2007, 06:23 PM
On the 270 foot cutter I was on it used two 12 cylinder deisel engines.

Or perhaps it was two 10 cylinder.

Can't remember now.
morbidgorilla
05-02-2007, 12:29 PM
Thats one hell of a shaft!!!
Murphy2012
05-02-2007, 02:24 PM
Mine's Bigger! ~ok~
ValuePack
05-02-2007, 03:17 PM
Mine's Bigger!
awww... :(
Murphy2012
05-02-2007, 11:35 PM
~rotfl~awww... :(

LMAO
Robk0000
07-06-2007, 07:10 PM
its so big you need a ladder to climb up and down the rod :)
mdungelman
07-07-2007, 09:12 AM
its so big you need a ladder to climb up and down the rod :)

I loled at that! But I'm not ~rotfl~. HA!
TrickyDik
07-07-2007, 09:17 AM
I chuckled. A peep even.
doylfish
07-07-2007, 10:43 AM
kind of a smirk