Worlds most powerful engine!

[Tonys96Cobra]

Just watched a show on the History channel about the most powerful Marine Diesel Engine. Made by B&W. Up to 14 cyl, has a 3' bore and a 10' stroke, the rods are as big as my F250. Runs at an ear scorching 94 rpm, has 3 turbos that are bigger than my house and makes 108,000 hp. Pushes a 95,000 ton(190,000,000 lbs) shipping barge at 30 knots.

This is the best pic I could find of it. Its 40' tall and 65' long.

 

[Roland69]

I had the same motor in my chevette not that good for speed but it would scare alot of ricers away with raw torque

 

[lxwants12's]

read that in one of those hot rod or truck magazines....the piston was the size of a fricking pool!!

 

[dragnazz5.0]

yeah, that thing makes close to or over a million ft/lbs of torque


edit: actually its closer to 5 million...........heres a link

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

 

[Roland69]

dats a huuuge bich

 

[bluevenom867]

Ok,Rick must now offer that as a crate engine

 

[Black1987Stang]

yeah, that thing makes close to or over a million ft/lbs of torque


edit: actually its closer to 5 million...........heres a link

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

I just watched that show too, and you beat me to showing that link, i was gonna post the same one.....pretty crazy stuff

 

[maverick0716]

Just watched a show on the History channel about the most powerful Marine Diesel Engine. Made by B&W. Up to 14 cyl, has a 3' bore and a 10' stroke, the rods are as big as my F250. Runs at an ear scorching 94 rpm, has 3 turbos that are bigger than my house and makes 108,000 hp. Pushes a 95,000 ton(190,000,000 lbs) shipping barge at 30 knots.

This is the best pic I could find of it. Its 40' tall and 65' long.

If that shipping barge shed a couple thousand tons, it could get into the 12's.

 

[giddyup306]

If that shipping barge shed a couple thousand tons, it could get into the 12's.

I think they tried doing some weight reduction but they had problems getting a SFI approved roll cage installed.

 

[GSXRMIXXER]

I think they tried doing some weight reduction but they had problems getting a SFI approved roll cage installed.

 

[1SLO306]

would suck to throw a rod in that thing

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

My brain can hardly concieve 5 million ft/lb of torque. That could move literally just about anything ON Earth aside from mountains. You could pull down skyscrapers and buildings with that much power. Think of the burnout you could achieve with 5 million ft/lb of torque!!

 

[Strype]

Wonder if they'd still change the oil at Express for $30

If so that would be teh win

 

[wht93gtEd]

old topic, but still cool none the less...

there's a ladder into the crankcase...

 

[Henceforward]

Think of the burnout you could achieve with 5 million ft/lb of torque!!

At 102 rpm you aren't gonna see anything break loose...

 

[Roland69]

That thing has some GERTH to it

 

[Lyncher]

a kid down the road has one of those in his civic! Its crazy! He says it runs 12's!!!!!

 

[84blkstang]

That thing has some GERTH to it

That is what my girlfriend said last night...

 

[Lyncher]

That is what my girlfriend said last night...

ahahaha

 

[Roland69]

lol the word GERTH just makes me laugh