Most BangShifters like us think that engines displacing 800-1,000ci are pretty huge. Keeping that in mind, there are industrial power plants in diesel locomotives, tug boats, and huge stationary generators that makes 1,000ci seem like an old Cox model airplane engine. Those massive engines have massive components, and those components need to be machined and manufactured to the same level of precision as the pieces in smaller engines do.
We found a press release from a Massachusetts company called the ADCOLE Corporation, advertising their new crankshaft measuring gauge. This “gauge” is capable of measuring a crank that is 180 inches long, that’s like ten and a half feet! It’ll hold a crank that weighs up to 4500lbs and has throws 22-inches deep. It’ll check the crank for straightness and journal imperfections to some ungodly small tolerance.
The machine weights 45,000lbs, has an 18″ thick base plate for the crank to sit on and costs a cool $900,000 bucks.
While this thing will never show up in the shop of a BangShifter, we thought it was worth sharing just for the complete freakshow nature of it. Look at this photo below it is totally wild!
