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Damn! The engine of my Volvo P1800 looks like a dwarf, in comparison. [nt]
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Time to upgrade performance?
While looking for turbo upgrades for one of my cars, I accidentally ran across a video this morning about MTU engines. This German company makes high-performance, high-capacity engines. Can I show you a few images? One of the 4 turbos! The turbo assembly ...
MTU is a German version of America's Caterpillar in some ways. They make generators, ship engines, and more.
Definitely some big, high performance engines there! I've never knowingly seen a Turbo that large!
That's some serious horsepower,and at 2000 liters of
oil capacity that pretty much eliminates Jiffy Lube for a quick oil change.
Actually i opt for a bigger turbo!
Smaller engine though , just not sure about the turbo-lag 😬. ...
I guessed it right from the first pic...I saw a documentary long time ago on how the optic cable was laid around Panama. The laying vessel broke down and was repaired by the team (costs
running into over hundred thousand dollar/hr) of elite mech engineers. It still haunts me how humungous those things were.
If you want to play "who's got the biggest one?", indeed ships are the right direction!
" This is the crankshaft for a Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C engine, the largest reciprocating engine in the world, used in large container ships. It's a 1810-liter engine that generates 108,920 horsepower at 102 RPM, and it idles at 22 RPM... almost 3 seconds ...
