if I remember correctly it also had to be refuled immediately after takeoff....

 

yeah i remembered hearing it actually leaks while on the ground but seals itself up once hauling *** in the air.

still cant figure out why those zillion horse cargo ship motors dont spin up past 100 RPM..... very surprizing at those low speeds they can even stay running, let alone make all that power. and two stroke diesel? wouldnt that be super polluting?

this stuff is pretty damn amazing



*** .049 FTW!!!

 

Those ship motors are so damned big, that the piston and connecting rodare probably 7 or 8 feet long. Now you know good and well that they don't balance those parts like they do on a small block Ford engine, so if that engine gets over a couple hundred RPM then it would shudder that whole boat. They don't care about hp anyway. They just need lots and lots of torque.

 

+1

 

pff, for as much money as one of them things cost it better be balanced lol

i know diesels dont rev high anyways, i just would think it would have to spin faster than 100rpms to stay running, at least like 500 or something. i dunno, it boggles my mind. just think, if you drop a bolt while working on it you can just open a hatch, climb in and get it

 

Thumpin - I give up...what's the answer?!?

I keep reading "no connecting rods, no crankshaft, no exhaust valves" and thinking its a logic question of sorts...

 

a but do you know what those huge ship motors run on

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ok now, they run on our used motor oil and gear oil and grease that where your oil goes after it leaves the parts store or where ever you drop it off at