Cascade Crew

Al Hasse · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:31 am Post subject: What can you swap this into???

Supposedly the largest, mosts efficient turbocharged two-stroke deisel going today.

http://trucksavvy.com/html/12cyl_engine.html

blue89 · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:59 am Post subject:

I like it. Made me think of jay leno's tank car.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1284937/posts

Twilightoptics · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:35 am Post subject:

I'd take one... if it could turn more than 102RPM!

91RSVert · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:55 am Post subject:

Ive seen the assy pics before, but never a true completed pic, or the specs on it.

Slightly bigger then whats used on a locomotive Very Happy

iansane · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:25 pm Post subject:

What do they use to start that?

aaron_sK · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:13 pm Post subject:

In the first pic it appears to have a starter on the far side of the flywheel.

dlp · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:19 pm Post subject:

Wonder what a Flowmaster would sound like on that monster.

Al Hasse · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:50 pm Post subject:

Found some more pics of general maintenance and internals. Maybe not the same model engine, but similar scale. Can you imagine the machine shop that fabricated some of the parts in the engine?

http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/technical-discussion/11290-what-makes-big-boats-go-wartsila-sulzer-rta96-c.html

HONDASLAYER · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:41 pm Post subject:

Man can you imagine having to replace a cam on one of those??? Laughing

rjmcgee · The Hammer Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 2328

Cat makes a 15.8 liter truck engine that makes something like 1850 ft lbs of torque. That giant engine there makes twice the ft lbs of torque per liter. That is impressive. Smile

iansane · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:18 am Post subject:

Al Hasse · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 4:40 pm Post subject:

aaron_sK · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 4:56 pm Post subject:

chevymad · Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject:

I wonder if the starter is a large diesel. Some old cat engines were started with a gasoline pup engine. You started the gas engine, then engaged the clutch to the diesel engine. You then got it spinning with a compression release like Al said. Once its spinning good you closed the compression release and the diesel took off on its own.