my mind goes to strange places when I have too much time on my hands. If you were to build a vehicle with 2 LS7 engines you would have 14L of displacement to utilize. I was looking at large turbos and it seems that options get pretty limited when you start looking at the amount of air that needs to be moved. So I started looking with more of a industrial mindset. Train turbo are massive and support huge horse power numbers. Any thoughts?
on a side note I found a train video on youtube and the comments gave me a good laugh
How did they manage to install an anti-lag system on such a monstrosity.
Silly idea. I did have a thought though, I can’t find the specs, but this video shows a large Detroit Diesel 6v53t. Got the idea because my father had these engines in his old boat and I always thought the turbos were enormous. It’s got a pretty large turbo, but it doesn’t really look much bigger than some of the high hp muscle car builds I’ve seen on here, so probably a bust in terms of finding something “different” for you. I do know that the 53 Series diesels also came in a 12 cylinder config, but I’m not sure if there was a turbo variant of the 12cyl. Either way, I went digging so here it is on the 6 cyl variant,
See above. You can achieve that power goal with 1 motor and 1 turbo. Anyhow to answer your q im not really sure what would be used if you want to run both motors with one turbo
Is this a crack-pot idea to mate together two LS Engines to create some kind of W-16 motor? Strangely enough, I was just looking at a thread on a wakeboarding site (of all places) of a guy mating together two 1JZ motors into a 12 cylinder motor.
This application would require 2 engines to remain practical. And i just like the idea of running a huge turbo instead of 2 normal size ones. I know they exist, but finding marine and train drivetrain info is not the easiest thing i have done.
Edit: i keep finding stuff that would not work on a gas engine like turbos that are way way too big or run a 7:1 or 8:1 pressure ratios