The Most Powerful Diesel in the World

[n5ifi]

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Uh Oh

It's bbbaaaaaaaacccccckkkkkkkkk



(sorry n5ifi, couldn't resist. . . this has been posted here 6-8 times already but it's still very cool )



Vaughn

 

[n5ifi]

Well shoot that figures.

Pick all ya won't I'm very thick skinned.

 

[DOUGMartin]

Im putting one in my truck next week.

 

[John - K5AWO]

Originally posted by DOUGMartin

Im putting one in my truck next week.

Which cylinder are you going to park your truck in??

 

[DOUGMartin]

um # 14. lol

 

[WyattEarp]

THATS JUST PLAIN SICK I TELL YA, TOTALLY SICK IN A GOOD WAY!! LOL. What an Engine

 

[klenger]

Admin, please make this a sticky!!



n5ifi: Welcome to the TDR.

 

[mhenon]

Got one!

I think thats the engine in my wifes Jetta. lotsa torque!

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

n5ifi, as a TDR old timer I want to welcome you to the board too. My first welcome could have been a little more polite That is a killer engine though and it's worth seeing more than once



Vaughn

 

[NPloysa]

And if you can't sway any V8 owners toward the fact that inlines rule the roost by telling them that most OTR trucks and tractors use inlines, just give them this link.



INLINES RULE! From our 5. 9 to that monster!

 

[n5ifi]

Roger Roger,

And thanks for the nice welcome. Seems like a lot of good people on the TDR site. I'm glad I joined. Nice to meet everyone. Love my Inline.

Jimmy

 

[RJBussey]

5 and a half million pounds of torque. :--) Oo. Oo. Oo.

 

[CChase]

How much to fill 'er up with Delo 400? :--)

 

[John - K5AWO]

You don't even want to know!!!



I betcha they measure it in barrels, not gallons or liters.

 

[Greenleaf]

Looks a lot like the Bessemer/Clark engines the Gas Co. operate, 'cept they run on natural gas. My cousin works at Columbia Gas Transmission and I got the tour. Said when one of their engines backfire, it blows the windows outta the building and launches the three story muffler like a rocket



Scott

 

[John - K5AWO]

Originally posted by Greenleaf

when one of their engines backfire, it blows the windows outta the building and launches the three story muffler like a rocket



Scott

Scott-



He is totally right. I worked for Panhandle Eastern Pipeline in the '60s and '70s. They are a natural gas transporter from the Texas panhandle to Michigan.



Those Bessemers and Clarks with 12 ft flywheels are something else. And yes, when it does backfire, it causes a lot of damage.



One of the booster stations in my district had an engine backfire. The exhaust system disintegrated. Shrapnel destroyed the incoming gate valve to a 12" gas line. The escaping gas turned into an inferno. Burned the whole building to the ground. First time I ever saw 14" steel girders melted down like spaghetti in a stew pot.



That huge engine block and head assembly was a very distorted incarnation of itself. Sunken in midways down the head to about block level. Awesome fire of hades... .

 

[Greenleaf]

That's a good one!



I have taken others ontour into the engine house. They can't get over standing at the bottom of the engine and looking skyward to the cylinder head.



There are three transission stations right here in this area. Our ground is full of storage wells. One can hear the low rumble of those engines chugging away at 300 RPM's



-S

 

[John - K5AWO]

On the horizontal Bessemers, the piston for the firing cylinder and the compressor is one and the same. The "rod" goes completely thru the center of the piston and runs in sleeves at both ends of the bed. Combustion on the front end and compressor on the tail end. double set of rings, either end of the piston.



I don't remember the cylinder diameter anymore, but it was huge. Maybe 36" ?? The stroke length was massive to, measured in feet.

 

[Greenleaf]

I have been around any horizontal engines, other than my John Deere



The Gas company has a in-line and V-type engines. The bottom of the flywheel go down into the basement a bit. Imagine pulling the drain plug on that oil pan "Eh, Houston..... we have a problem":--) LOL





The gas compressing cylinders are mounted at 90° to the engine block. Therefore each connecting rod journal on the engine's crankshaft has two rods;one for the engine's piston (a vertical rod) and another for the compressor(a horizontal rod).



-S