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Originally Posted by kerry
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Yep, only the Brits could come up with an engine like the Napier-Deltic. Pretty daggone amazing.
For grins, I sent the link of the ballistic power assembly to my friend that's a towboat engineer. He was on a line-haul towboat called the Joy Anne Keller from the time she was launched until about two years ago. The Keller was powered by two EMD 710-V16s each making about 4400hp at the time. AEP quickly learned that having the fire turned up that much on those engines created it's own set of problems. Most often, the small end of the con rod would fail and the rod would proceed to saw a slot about 12" wide through the block weldment before he could get the engine shut down.
They backed off the fuel and significantly extended the life of those engines.