Video Bonanza: Old Engines From the Gearhead Past

[cjforumadmin]

http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Video-Bonanza-Old-Engines-From-the-Gearhead-Past.html

[ford141]

Re: Video Bonanza: Old Engines From the Gearhead Past

Cool videos Brian!

Snow built two of those 600hp engines, and the other one is located about an hour north of me in Coolspring, PA. There is a power museum located there with hundreds of old stationary engines. Really cool place. The Snow is a long-term project to get it back in working condition, but they are making headway on it. I highly recommend a visit for any gearhead who might be in the area. Here is the website:

http://coolspringpowermuseum.org/index.htm

[Whelk]

Re: Video Bonanza: Old Engines From the Gearhead Past

Ships are where you find your full sized engines.

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: Video Bonanza: Old Engines From the Gearhead Past

Those are some good video's to end the day with. It cracks me up how the hot bulb engine sounds just like you'd imagine a factory of the early 1900's would sound.

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: Video Bonanza: Old Engines From the Gearhead Past

The plane motor with the exposed valvetrain was pretty bitchin'.

Hell, they're all cool!

[1988montecarloss]

Re: Video Bonanza: Old Engines From the Gearhead Past

Ships are where you find your full sized engines.

any more info on this?

[Whelk]

Re: Video Bonanza: Old Engines From the Gearhead Past

any more info on this?

That's the crank of a diesel merchant ship engine. On some of them you can walk into the combustion chamber to service the valves.

http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/emma-maersk-engine/the-wartsila-sulzer-super-engine/

or

http://mrec.rotary.net.nz/articles/du-sulzer_12rta96c.htm

"Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm
Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm"

[66Fury3]

Re: Video Bonanza: Old Engines From the Gearhead Past

Here is the fully built engine......

This is the W?rtsil? RT-flex96C, a modular engine for powering container ships. It is available in inline configurations from six to 14 cylinders, producing from 65,978 hp to 113,209, respectively, at 102 rpm. It?s pressurized by turbos the size of your living room, ranging from one on the six-cylinder to four on the 14. Engines are 25 feet wide, 44 feet 4 inches tall, and the 14-cylinder is 87 feet 3 inches long and weighs 2535 tons. The cylinder bores are 38 inches across and stroke is more than eight feet, giving each cylinder a displacement of 110,426 cubic inches. For the 14-cylinder, that?s a total displacement of 1,545,962 cubic inches, or 25,334 liters. Fuel economy is a mere 1660 gallons of oil per hour.




Here is the orinagal artical....

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...exNY3CNcO_2IYL

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: Video Bonanza: Old Engines From the Gearhead Past

It's going to be a few minutes before I can leave my desk with out questioning looks.......


Thanks for the picture.