Diesel power

[BogMonster]

This has been posted before

Biggish diesel engine

but I was just looking at it again, and I wondered.....

..... what sort of dyno did they need to measure 5.6 million lb ft ????

[western]

This has been posted before

Biggish diesel engine

but I was just looking at it again, and I wondered.....

..... what sort of dyno did they need to measure 5.6 million lb ft ????

A BIG one

did you notice this bit in common with our LR engines [diesels anyway]

Some high-performance auto engines have a similar feature where an oil squirter nozzle squirts oil onto the bottom of the piston

[minivin]

You wouldn't want to be around if that "threw a rod"

[Adesred90]

it must need one hell of a starter motor. Another engine maybe or Goliath and a cranking handle.

[BogMonster]

Probably uses compressed air I should think, the big generators at our power station use that for starting. Mind you they probably just shut it down to about 1rpm or something and leave it running

[mattD110td5x]

This has been posted before

Biggish diesel engine

but I was just looking at it again, and I wondered.....

... how does my landrover compare for fuel consumption?

> Fuel consumption at maximum economy is 0.260 lbs/hp/hour.

> For comparison, most automotive and small aircraft engines have

> BSFC figures in the 0.40-0.60 lbs/hp/hr range.....

So,

I get 11 litres per 100km when I'm doing 100km/h -sorry for the metrification

in a Td5 D110.

I guess that I'm using just less than all of the horsepower available to get to 100km/h, so say 100hp.

Assuming that diesel is the same specific gravity as water (1kg/L), then....

So 11L/100km at 100km/h and 100hp= 0.11kg/h/hp or 0.24 lbs/hp/hour

yippie the mighty 2.5L Landrover is nearly as efficient as the 24,480L monster

we would only need 1,089 Landrovers to make the same horsepower

(we won't talk about the fuel quality of the bunker oil they run those big diesels on

ttfn

Matthew