Scottish Elises

The Globe, taking up berths 8 and 9 at Felixstowe, has seemingly set a second world record. Its engine is the biggest, in terms of sheer physical size, rather than power, ever made, according to its German design firm Man Diesel. It is 17.2m (56.5ft) high, 5.2m (17ft) wide and 22.5m (74ft) wide.

The two-stroke engine, built in South Korea, operates at 56.8 megawatts. That's the equivalent of almost 38,000 1,500-watt vacuum cleaners.

tut

Still dick it ??

Might upset the handling, and you'd lose some boot space. Nice and torquey though.

Is that a single cylinder, and a 2 stroke to boot?

tut

Meh. Aero derivative gas turbines FTW.

tut wrote:Is that a single cylinder, and a 2 stroke to boot?

tut

it will be a straight 12

And a uniflow 2 stroke

You mean that there will be 12 of those one behind the other?

tut

Yes like this

Will it fit in an Elise ?

My old job had me looking after those.
Job was fine but 4 month trips wasn't much of a life.

tut wrote:You mean that there will be 12 of those one behind the other?

tut

In front actually

The cam is always to the left hand side looking forward and the gear case in normally central

And amongst the highest thermal efficiency going


bore = 960mm
Stroke = 3500mm

Roughly

http://www.wartsila.com/en/engines/low- ... _undefined

if you are bored

I work on slightly smaller and older variants of that. That's one of the newer, camshaftless engines using hydraulics/electrical solenoids for injection/exhaust valve operation. Impressive bit of kit!