Mopar Of The Day

[Jack Meoff]

not sure if this is the largest car engine displacement, but has to be for a four cylinder: 28.5 liters

Captain, can you put the gif into the thread properly? http://imgur.com/t/cars/NlJPdX3

"A "standard" car engine has a displacement of somewhere between 2.0 and 3.0 liters. This monster engine has a displacement of 28.5 liters, and it's an inline four to boot.

The sound this thing makes is the sound of hell and fury so make sure you check out the source: http://vimeo.com/113158655 "

Great googly moogly!

Sorry....you have to just use those links.
Good Lord that thing is a beast!!

Roughly a 1740 cubic inch engine!!!

 

[kkritsilas]

There were a lot of huge displacement cars in the early days of the automobile. They ran very low compression ratios (2:1-3:1, something like that, so the power was really not something to write home about. That modern 2.0-3.0L engine will have as much power as this 28.5L engine does, and I would think this would be a slight bit more fuel efficient. It should be somewhat safer as well, considering that modern engines don't spew flame out the side of the block.

Take a look at #1 on this list. It is a slightly bigger engine, but the horsepower total is there for that size of engine. Probably a bit of a tight fit for our cars, but I'm sure that a monster truck could use one of these.

http://jalopnik.com/the-worlds-ten-largest-engines-509258535

Kostas

 

[Jack Meoff]

Very cool list.

 

[greymouser7]

Cool list. Our Tri dent Sub driveshaft is rated at over 1,000,000 foot pounds of Torque. My Captain on the Maine broke two of them and the Navy never figured out to hold him responsible. We would be traveling along at all-ahead-flank, and he would order all-back-emergency. Essentially, placing your transmission into reverse at top speed. The rear main seals that hold water out of the people tank, leaked like crazy. If this happened while you were asleep in your rack (coffin size bed), you woke up in a lop-side-loaded washing machine in early spin cycle. We were literally lop-sided screwing thru the water. They sure do build those sub's so damn strong because missile launch flexes the hull like you flexing your bicep (ship launched ic bm's)

Our ship would not match that number ship motor at max output, but our main engines at max might be comparable to it's low out-put.

-oh and Chrysler designed our lowest level on-board mobile crane that we load a separate rocket motor with.

 

[Jack Meoff]

http://youtu.be/IAMiTfSU7ZA

 

[kkritsilas]

A flank speed to all back emergency instantly, huh? And the Navy never figured it out? Something wrong in many places there, from the captain himself to the Navy not knowing how their subs are being used. Newport News/Electric Boat (whoever it is that designed/built the sub) should have been able to figure it out pretty much right away, assuming they were asked.

I think that big ship motor is used on large container ships, and maybe oil supertankers. Video is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXHvY-zY9hA

This is part of the History series that I first saw this engine in.

Some still pictures are here:

http://www.autoblog.com/photos/w-rtsil-sulzer-rta96-c/#image-1

The sheer scale of this is mind bending.

Kostas

 

[76volareman]

Haha. I built one. 452ci. Later I EFI'd it. Megasquirt.... years
Ago..

 

[greymouser7]

please explain the filter

 

[Jack Meoff]

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Haha. I built one. 452ci. Later I EFI'd it. Megasquirt.... years
Ago..

That looks insane....

please explain the filter

Yes....please.