Most powerful diesel in the world.

[Tatraplan]

Hard to fit in a light-weight truck, but it's quite impressive anyway.

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/

I've always been fascinated by 2-stroke engines and plan to convert a one cylinder 200cc Vespa engine to diesel some day to come.

/Robert

[ZZ]

I think we have a pair of these engines in our local power plant. I do know that they had to ship them across the Atlantic to get them here.

[madmatt]

I may be mistaken, but i doubt there are any of these used in local power plants. In other parts of the world large (still small by comparison to the above mentioned engines) Caterpillar( and other MFGs) gensets alone power entire islands and counties. these engine produce up to about 14,000fwhp. If your genset came across the Atlantic, they are probably MaK, which are built in Germany, produce approx. 18-20,000 fwhp(iirc) and make popular EPGs.

[ZZ]

You're probably right. I didn't think about it like that.

[CleviteKid]

There are engines similar to this used to generate electrical power, but they are rare. I worked on an MAN-design engine of about 50,000 hp, on the island of Guam, built in South Korea. It was a large 2-stroke inline 12, about 3 foot bore and 6 foot stroke, running at 102 rpm.

Dr. Lee :cool:

[ZZ]

I have heard since I posted this these engines only run 75 RPM. I heard them running the other day and you could tell it.