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I was thinking of getting this engine for my MGT http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/

ttoks

i bet that has enough clearance between the head and the piston to put your mgt in there...

102,000 hp, hmm i wonder what gearing you'd need to get all that to the wheels lol

sfar785

let's put a turbo on it

DaveG55

They already did.

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might need a few modification's but it should work nicely..LOL..when it come's time to rebuild your on ur own so GL

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IMO a V12 is a turbo

sfar785

I don't see a turbo...and it doesn't mention anything about a turbo...

aer-wubby

sfar785

hmm...i over looked that...and it's a 2-stroke? maybe this is a good sign for turbcharging rc cars? lol...I'M KIDDING!!!

burningpoo

get 2....they might lose one in shipping

carmatic1

i like the piston rod design tho, you could get a bigger stroke without making the engine bigger or wearing out the pistons....

does anyone know what it sounds like when its running? or what rpm does it run at.... maybe if you rev it too high one of the pistons might shoot straight out

crazyjr

probably ..........booom.....................booooom....... ...............boooommm.................boooooommm .......

steven16

102 rpm lol but a onehunderd thousand horse power thats respectible i guess

crashman44b

Did you know? 2 strokes don't make ***** for power with a turbo?

carmatic1

except when the fuel is so thick that the engine cant suck it in on its own?

duckedup

It probably has more to do with the size of the engine, and making sure it gets enough air/fuel mixture in there to actually run.. just a guess, though.

Impressive freakin' motor btw [X(]

carmatic1

by the way is the turbocharger pulling air in, or pulling fuel in... i wouldnt be surprised if it was pulling air instead of fuel, because diesel is like on the other end of the fossil fuel spectrum as nitros, you need extra air to fully burn it up, and at those sizes the air doesnt flow like it does in a 1/8 scale nitro or something, like you definitely dont see a tuned pipe going along with the engine, instead they use that turbo ...i think its just to make the air flow thru the engine and into the exhaust properly

scottywilkes

turbo is designed to pull air, the more air u can compress in a motor the more power u get, a fuel based engine is nothing without air. The reason this motor works with a turbo, or any 2 strokes turbo, supercharged truck motor. Is that they have an exaust valve, so its able to compress more in there without loosing it straight out a port

ttoks

it's a desiel, just like any other desiel it's compression ignition, so the fuel get injected right at the top of the piston stroke and instantly ignites from the heat caused by the high compression ratio, because of this the fuel and air cant have oil in it to run through the crank case to lubricate the crankshaft, so instead the crankcase is filled with oil like a car engine, now because the fuel and air isn't getting compressed in the crank case anymore there is no way to get it flowing into the cylinders, that's where the turbo's come in, the perform the job the crank case does on our nitro engines, it doesn't help with power output at all, it just keep a good supply of air flow for the engine to run.

there are 4 turbo chargers on the 10 cylinder version of the engine, each has to be spooled up by an electric engine before the engine it started to get air flowing to the cylinders.

DaveG55

These engines (the 14 cy one) use almost 92,000 cubic feet of air per minute. To put that into a perspective that we can visualize, a bedroom that's 10' x 10' x 8' is only 800 cu ft. That means the 14 cylinder version needs every ounce of air from the equilivent of 115 bedrooms to run for one minute. Now consider where these engines operate at. They are container ship engines. They are stuck in the hold of a ship. There's no way in gods green earth that they could get the volume of air they need to run if they were normally asperated. They have to have some kind of forced air system to even operate. With the size of these engines I'd bet the turbos they use are pretty darn impressive all by themselves. I wonder what kind of velocity the air reaches on the intake tubes of one of those ships when these engines are spooled up?

ozzie-crawl

bet u would get good fuel milage as well.[sm=lol.gif][sm=lol.gif]

DaveG55

Actually, the engine would be bigger, taller at least, to compensate for the extra rod length.

What would they sound like... A dull roar from what I've heard when container ships have passed me. You really feel it more than hear it. And the article states hey run at 102 rpm with over a million and a half foot pounds of torque.
They drive a six blade prop that is a shade under 30' across and weighs in at around 250,000 pounds and can push that ship along at about 25 knots.

DaveG55

About 66 gallons per mile. Not mpg but gpm. And according to the article they are about twice as efficent as an automobile engine.

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so if the starter goes bad you can pick one up at pepboys life time $29.99

ttoks

the thermal efficiency is about twice that of a car engine, about 50% of the energy stored in the fuel is converted into motion of the pistons compared to about 20-25% for a good gasoline engine and 30-35% for a good diesel.

at maximum effciency the 14 cylinder version uses in the order of 28,319 pounds (or 13,708 kilograms(13.7 tons))of heavy oil, and 149,822,600 (yes thats 155 hundred million) liters of air every hour

interesting though is that triple compound steam engines can get up to 85% thermal efficiency, old technology isn't so bad after all is it now lol.