pics of Caterpillar Large Engine Center tour

Pete Pete@greenmount.anu.edu.au
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:40:20 -0600


Take a look at this link. This is a reasonably big engine but I was looking
through an engineering catalogue recently and found a modular ship diesel,
6 to 12 cylinders that made 4000HP per cylinder.

http://www.autospeed.com/A_1290/P_2/article.html

Pete

At 09:03 AM 25/02/2002 -0600, Ben Davis wrote:
> > Back in the day when I was a Navy dude, one of the ships I was on was
> > powered by 4, 16 cyl. inline Cats (D455's I think) supercharged AND
>turboed,
> > 1800hp and God-only-knows how much torque. During a refit three were
> > replaced, through the stack. They were shipped in one each on a flat bed