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.
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?
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The engine on the Honda RC110. 50cc single cilinder DOHC 4 valve pushing 10hp at 14000rpm. Crazy little engine
“will it fit in my Honda?”
Rolls Royce Merlin
This post should be called “Engines that fit in my honda”
A Pratt and Whitney Wasp radial engine. Lovely piece of engineering!
BMW 801 or DB603 Warbird engines
2JZ-GTE?
The mark of a great engine (automotive or otherwise) is its adaptability.
This is why the Soloviev D-30 is amazing. You can find this low bypass afterburning turbofan in your run of the mill regional airliner or “tune it” (i.e. do a bit more than crank up the boost) and put it in a supersonic interceptor (the MiG-25) that’s way faster than the capitalism-delivering Freedom 22’s ;)
If you don’t think that an engine with an 11 stage compressor and 6 stage turbine that produces in excess of 100kN of thrust is cool as hell, you’re pretty jaded. Also it makes awesome choo choo sounds.
P.S: The civil version is not afterburning. Sadly.
Whatever powers an f-16
Rocket engine on the space shuttle