That for a boat or suttin lol
This is very old… but yah, pretty sure its a honda k series motor
Move over LS1, the king is in town.
Edit: Awesome
^Nahhh, straight 6, Gotta be a 2JZ.
Fuckin sully
wtf, details?
NP
Shipping goods from China to the U.S. is big business. And when we say big, we’re talking 1,300-foot-long ships that weigh 170,974 tons. The cargo ships in question can carry 11,000 20-foot shipping containers at a breakneck speed of 31 knots.
That’s a lot more oomph than the typical 20-knot cruiser, and the reason for the extra push is the world’s largest diesel engine. The 109,000-horsepower Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C, which first set sail in the Emma Mærsk in 2006, weighs in at a rotund 2,300 tons, and it’s 44-feet tall and 90-feet long. In other words, the TRA96 is the height of a four-story building, and longer than a Christmas Eve line at Sam’s Club. Within that massive exterior rests 14 cylinders that each consume 6.5-ounces of diesel fuel every cycle. And, if you like torque, there’s enough twist to rip an M1 tank to shreds, though the massive mill churns at only 102 rpm.
That’s a lot of motor to ponder, and we’d be imagining the size of that camshaft, if it had one. This turbocharged two-stroke features common rail tech that utilizes a high-pressure fuel rail to supply fuel to individual solenoid valves. That means improved fuel economy and better performance, which is nothing short of essential in such a massive ship.
So far there are 25 such engines patrolling the world’s oceans, and another 86 are on the way. And since these mills can get a shipment from China to LA in four fewer days than their competitors, we wouldn’t be surprised to see still more engines on the way.
Quick calculator, at 102rpm…
Torque is
5,612,431.4
Waiting for the thread where wayne wants to put this in a huge pickup truck.
:rofl
Yet your local 96 Honda Civic has to pass C02 emissions :facepalm
These massive engines are epic. I’m really hooked on vintage ship building photos, especially the machining processes used back in the day.
I don’t think I can cross-link these photos here but defiitely check out the pictures in this flikr album. Pages 8-11 are especially interesting, being old dock/machine yard photos of the assembly of the doxford motors.
Just so fucking cool how they can build something THAT big THAT precise.
2 stroke too! i bet that thing would sound ridiculous
Looks like a straight 10!
This is the turbo for these beasts.
Absolutly Amazing
More photos of container ship engines and turbochargers.
CHRA in the bed of a truck going out for overhaul:
12 Zylinder muwahahaha!
Air diffuser/scree is 2/3rds the size of a civic :excited
Dropping crank in
Piston and intermediate rod(con rods are multiple pieces in these engines)
Main beings going in:
Cylinders:
And last but not least…how do you transport alot of big ships…Make even bigger barge to haul them :rofl
Oh, and another thing that facinates me about these ships. Their screws. Absoliute works of art:
for comparison…the titanics screws:
And now modern ship screws and korts:
Now you can see why they need those massive engines. some of those screw weigh over 100 tons each.
makes me wonder how long it takes for that ginormous turbo to spool up
Marine engine, it’s always spooled :lol But in reality with the kind of displacement we’re talking here, probably not as slow as you think.
still it’s gotta take at least a full minute
How the fuck do you machine a crankshaft that fucking big?
I feel like itd take years just for that fucker to be machined