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**Posted by Don** 9/20/2024 8:40 PM

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, taking almost 3 seconds per rotation. This crankshaft weighs 300 tons.*

**Posted by rpm** 9/20/2024 10:44 PM

Sally don't care bout no crank, heez inta cam shafts.

**Posted by Rufus68** 9/21/2024 8:33 AM

Here's the engine

**Posted by lowercasesteve** 9/21/2024 12:42 PM

Rufus68 wrote:
Here's the engine

Rufus: I love the photo with your car description below it. looks like that is the engine in your car! Only problem I see with it is the shock towers may be too close together for it to fit.

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**Posted by Rudi** 9/21/2024 12:51 PM

I often wonder if photoshop has something to do with pictures like that.

**Posted by TKOPerformance** 9/22/2024 5:35 AM

rpm wrote:
Sally don't care bout no crank, heez inta cam shafts.

It may not have one. A lot of those marine Diesels are 2 strokes. Twice as much power is hard to pass up, and he should be a fan of that!

**Posted by 6sally6** 9/22/2024 12:41 PM

Welp (thx RPM).........I'd hafta listen to it !!
6sally6

**Posted by Mach1Driver** 9/23/2024 10:42 AM

Rudi wrote:
I often wonder if photoshop has something to do with pictures like that.

Maybe, but when I was in the service, I was on an Evarts class Destroyer Escort that had twin GM V-12s. It was diesel/electric, so the diesels ran a generator that ran an electric motor, one set for each shaft. We went into drydock for an engine overhaul. It had individual cylinder heads, which were removed and we had to get onto the cylinder and sit on top of the piston and sand the cylinder walls. It was a tight fit but most of us were skinny kids at the time.

Years later I visited the Queen Mary and went into her engine room, and wow!! The scale of the stuff on that ship was amazing.

**Posted by 6sally6** 9/23/2024 3:03 PM

We had a Fairbanks Morse diesel generator on the sub I was on. Pretty BIG and LOOOOUD !! especially when trying to sleep
6sal6

**Posted by Mach1Driver** 9/23/2024 6:02 PM

6sally6 wrote:
We had a Fairbanks Morse diesel generator on the sub I was on. Pretty BIG and LOOOOUD !! especially when trying to sleep
6sal6

He had a Fairbanks Morse as the main generator in engine room B1. Was yours opposed piston like ours? Yes engine rooms were extremely loud- you had to have hearing protection or suffer permanent hearing damage. They pumped so much air into the room for the engines that you could take your Dixie Cup off, pull the brim down and let it sail up the ladder and out the hatch to the main deck ;)

**Posted by TKOPerformance** 9/24/2024 6:03 AM

I remember going into the engine room on my grandfather's boat when it was underway. Two MANN V-12 turbo Diesels. Hearing protection hung right by the door that led down. Amazing how something only turning about 2,500RPM could be that loud! That boat cooked though. 1,350HP each. They pushed that 60 footer to 50 knots, which I believe is just over 57 MPH.

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**Posted by 6sally6** 9/24/2024 3:08 PM

Mach1Driver wrote:
6sally6 wrote:
We had a Fairbanks Morse diesel generator on the sub I was on. Pretty BIG and LOOOOUD !! especially when trying to sleep
6sal6
He had a Fairbanks Morse as the main generator in engine room B1. Was yours opposed piston like ours? Yes engine rooms were extremely loud- you had to have hearing protection or suffer permanent hearing damage. They pumped so much air into the room for the engines that you could take your Dixie Cup off, pull the brim down and let it sail up the ladder and out the hatch to the main deck ;)

Opposed pistons (If I rememberize it right!)
We only run it at snorkeling depth naturally... or it would suck your ear drums out like tiny balloons(J/K)
The engine room would stay warm for several days after we shut it down and submerged.
We used it to charge the battery bank (mainly just for drills)
6s6