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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Oct 2008
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Another diesel OB
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:06:04 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:43:27 GMT, Tom Francis
wrote:
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:12:20 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:
On Dec 29, 11:03*am, (Richard Casady)
wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:53:54 GMT, Tom Francis
wrote:
Then again, your point is well taken - the whole point of diesels is
lots of power at low rpms.
Nonsense. The only point to Diesels is fuel economy. Were that not so,
they wouldn't even exist. They have both gasoline and steam beat in
that regard. That is what you get in exchange for cost and weight.
They make 300 RPM gas engines by the way. Caterpillar makes large,
slow turning, spark ignition engines. They mostly run on me
Runs on YOU?
LOL!
300 RPM? How about 600 hp at 80!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxssIc4HUNM
Pfffhhhttttt.....
That's just the starter for this one:
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
108,920 hp at 102 rpm
Way cool. The Wikipedia entry mentions this:
"The upper portion is lubricated by continuous injection of consumable
lubricant"
So I'm thinking this is just a damn big e-tec.
What is heavy fuel oil? This is said to be a 2-stroke diesel, but
runs on "heavy fuel oil."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil#Bunker_fuel
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