Check out this link...could it be true?


http://people.bath.ac.uk:80/ccsshb/12cyl/


The Tenor Man

Posted MANY times. Even waaaaaaay back in 2003.
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=69576&highlight=world%27s+largest+diesel

...and again in 2003
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=68529&highlight=Wartsila

...and in 2006
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=141833&highlight=world%27s+powerful+diesel

...and in 2007
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=188262&highlight=powerful+diesel

My God! Those pictures looked like they were from "Honey I Shrunk The Factory Workers."

109,000HP makes that Bugatti Veyron sound like a real slacker . . .

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OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Call me crazy but I would've never suspected that such a giant engine would have essentially the same design as a common internal combustion type--cylinders arranged in a row a crankshaft etc in similar proportions. Somehow I always pictured the giant container ship engines as exotic turbine-style thingies, not literally giant internal combustion engines.

Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm
Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm

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99 Gurkha with OM616 IDI turbo

2015 Gurkha with OM616 DI turbo

2014 Rexton W with OM612 VGT

I wonder if they get that same diesel clater of a mb diesel ,except in their shoes.I was recently given this sound signiture definition by my mechanic whos slowly becoming a mb diesel fan ,just doesnt like the oily part of the motor,he says it sounds like a couple of skeletons doing it on a tin roof.

I'd hate to have to pay for an oil change for that bad boy!

I was wondering if anyone has ever seen a TV show about that, like on the Science channel or something? I'd love to see video of it.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I saw a program about the engine , I think it was on Discovery. Awsome.

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1982 240D Euro Stick 4

Oil change? How do you change the oil in an engine that burns used engine oil (or worse) for fuel?

Do you remember what the name of the program was? I'd like to see that.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Hahaha... "Oh *****, glowplug #3 is bad again... get the crane!"

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'79 300SD
'82 Chevy Chevette diesel

I think i saw the same program i dont recall what the name of it was but it was very interesting. they inspect each cylinder by opening a door and walking in the engine of course while it is not turned on. but that was an awesome program.

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1981 300d

I have seen one of those when i worked for a trucking company.. they have actual doors where you can enter and walk around in the engine itself. it was a B&W/MAN-diesel

We're gonna need a bigger topsider.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

"* LARGEST DUMP TRUCK
Matt Rogers travels to the Albian Sands in Alberta, Canada, to ride aboard the largest dump truck in the world: the Caterpillar 797. This 1.375 million-pound monster with a massive 3,400-horsepower diesel engine drives along the sands with wheels that stand 14 feet tall. The world's largest diesel truck is a powerhouse built to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to produce oil."

This is from the Discovery channel show "Really Big Things"

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'79 300SD
'82 Chevy Chevette diesel