What's your favourite engine that can't be found in a car?

I was recently talking to one of our freelancers about 1000bhp wood-chippers (as you do), and it got me wondering about other non-car things that have big-power engines.

Darren Cassey

08 Apr 2016

I was recently talking to one of our freelancers about 1000bhp wood-chippers (as you do), and it got me wondering about other non-car things that have big-power engines. Then Brittany Ferries released a (frankly bizarre) press release boasting about how its ferries have four 12-cylinder engines making 65,000bhp, and I felt like I wanted to know more.

So, what are your suggestions for cool, big engines found outside the car world?

Comments

Rolls Royce Griffon V12

Volkswagen vr6 and vr5

125cc rotaxe’s

Y’know, mine’s are LS-series engines. Not in cars, but in every god damn thing

RR Merlin V12

RR Merlin/Meteor and the 16.4L Scania V8

I’ve been on a cargo ship once for work. It was insane to me how it had 3 inline-6 engines the size of a UPS Delivery truck, and those were only generators. Then there was the main engine, which was bigger than my house. One cylinder on that was as big as my BMW, and it had 6 of them. The camshaft had clear glass in front of it so you could see the oil go round inside. The side of the engine block had 6 normal-sized doors for inspection. And that was actually one of the smaller cargo ships. Collegue of mine went on a ship that had an inline-12-cylinder engine where each cylinder was even bigger!