Screw the 3.2, I'm going to find a way to wedge this into my 914...
 

Suggestions are welcome:

http://www.metal-club.org/12-Cylinder.html

-Wayne

"Bore - just under 3'2" (965mm). "...

It is a 3'2" LOL

What would a thrown rod sound and look like when at speed?, I would want to be at least a mile away.

isn't think a wtlw? either way it's really cool. Thermal efficency over 50% and a redline of 100RPM?!

The suspension might need some tending to, but it'd be one hell of a cool stainless steel exhaust system.
JP

You'd need stiffer springs in the back, to accomodate the extra weight.

THere would be your difficulty, Wayne. I don't think there is a 914 tach with a 100 rpm redline...;) The horsepower sounds adequate, though..

What do they use this for? Ocean liners?

The biggest problem I see other than suspension issues (How do you suspend 4 million pounds?) is having to lug arond the fuel tank as a trailer (1600 gal/hr burn rate). Besides the engine alone has a weight to power ration of 44:1 which is not stellar.

Have you thought about a blown Chevy 350 in the front of the 914 as an option?

How do you start it? You'd need an APU off a jet!

Picture this in one of Waynes future books....

Note the raceware headstuds. :)

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1060805448.jpg

Wayne, more realistically, you ought to dump one of these in the back

600+ hp should about do it

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1060808264.jpg

I wonder how they'd build a cool collar for that engine. I'm sure someone will think of something.

Just make sure you get the updated one that makes better power at 104 rpm.

actually, someone listed their 914 on your site here wayne, and it has a V-8, some serious power coming from that one...I know the purists will be horrified, but I wasn't...it's just a Gruppe B

Texaco would be happy with you Wayne :D

That is CLEARLY a ferrari 12 cylinder engine in the making. Those are Enzo's gnomes working on it that only make it look big. :D

Child labor was outlawed, gnomes are not protected.

Free the gnomes!

They even threw some Korean writing in the backround to throw off the APFTC (Assoc. for Protection of Fairytale Creatures)

Hehe...that's cool! I believe Juan works with those big diesels...he could probably chime-in about them.

Talking about complicated machines, don't forget Deltic diesel previously mentioned on PP:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/98759-you-think-rebuilding-boxer-6-complicated.html

Nah, too undersquare. That thing'd never rev when you took it to the track. :D

It probably does okay in the torque dept, however.

Jim

I used to work on stuff like that when I still had hair. it was neat but I don't really miss those days.

Here's some more ideas:
http://www.scaleautoworks.com/marushinPorsche.html toy engine
http://www.tpub.com/engine3/en3-18.htm opposing cylinder engine
http://www.rodshop.com.au/project55p2.htm 12cyl RR Merlin engine

I wouldent be suprised to learn MB is thinking about putting one of those daddies in an upcoming amg baged car. Damn german luxury car manufacturers are in a definate horsepower war these days. how about an sl 90000. The sl stands for super light of course!! and the 90000 is for hp.

Hmmmm. Enron may still have a couple of Frame 7F Gas Turbines laying around, slightly used.

One'll make around, oh maybe, 210,000 hp...

Course you'll need a bigger fuel tank.

at its point of maximum efficiency it consumes 13,843 lbs/hour of diesel fuel!!

That kind of stuff makes me think about how little I really know about things in this world...

-Wayne

100RPM! You'd have to run it through the transmission backwards (and shift 5-1) to gear it UP for the road. That is unless you like a top speed of about 1.89 mph at redline.

So, if I calculate this right, this engine consumes about
271.5 metric tons (271527 kilos) of, I guess, heavy or intermediate fuel oil per 24 hours (at nominal max. continuous output).
That's a lot (but then, it probably is a very favorable figure)!

Why piston? Why not a turbine for an application that big?

I like that opposed piston motor. If I remember right those were the motors used in the Luftwaffe Junkers bombers during WW2. Kinda hard to believe that those things actually worked. Diesel Supercharged. I wonder how high of compressiobn that thing ran?

Im still wondering how they get that first motor to start. You would need a jet to get it turning. then at the rtight moment, inject fuel and fire it up. can you imagine how LOUD that thing must be?

What could this engine do with a turbocharger?

Jared: if you talk about Deltic, it was used in locomotives and boats and developed after WWII by british company. Actually, boat that Martin Sheen rides in "Apocalypse Now" is powered by small 9-cylinder Deltic. It wasn't too hard to start at all...just a small turn and off it goes.

Turbo6bar: Big diesel engine Wayne showed does use a turbocharger (probably one per cylinder). Actually, all big 2-stroke diesels depend on turbochargers to properly purge exhaust-gases from cylinders.

beepbeep, I was actually reffering to the huge engine at the beginning of the thread. How do you start that!?


Speaking of diesels, my dad recently bought a 6.2L Banks turbocharged GMC crewcab dually with a utility bed. This thing is AWESOME. it was a ex-L.A. County Fire Dept. truck he got at auction. It's funny, with the Banks on there, it pulls like a regualr truck, almost no lag. It's eveng ot a 4 speed with a granny gear!