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78 liters of displacement, 18 cylinders, 12 turbocharges and a tame 3,500 hp and 10,300 lb-ft of torque make for one mean Mini. Well, it would if it actually worked. Instead, this will probably just be on static display at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Fun fact: the engine alone weighs about 15 times what an original Mini did.
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Not 3WTP, more like WTF
Air.
Want a big engine? Here’s a big engine:
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
How do they start this thing?
Twotone
I’ve seen this website before. They’re engines for container ships. Amazing…
The connecting rods are attached to crossheads, not directly to the piston to eliminate side forces on the pistons. “Those sideways forces are what makes the cylinders in an auto engine get oval-shaped over time.”
That statement reminded me, in about 1953 a Packard salesman told my father that their straight 8 engines were better than V8’s because the V8’s pistons caused excessive wear on the bottom sides of the cylinders.
They are started using banks of compressed air.
Haha… That’s not an engine; (pulls up in container ship) THAT’S an engine.
Would love to see the Cooper version of that.
This should certainly please our resident diesel enthusiasts.
But only if it’s rear wheel drive with a 6-speed manual transmission.
Looks like a diesel locomotive engine.
Actually, that was my initial thought too, but it’s too small. An EMD 710 is 187.7 litres, 16 cylinders and generates about 4,300 horsepower. Uses only two turbochargers. Even the earliest EMD units (model 567) from the late ’30’s was close to 150 litres in 16 cylinder configuration.
That would make an excellent 24 Hours of Lemons entry (there’s nothing they love more than a good engine swap), although the over-$500 penalty laps would be brutal.
Wow, Mini was able to bring a compact diesel pickup stateside before Mahindra!
Hopefully they’ll challenge Mahindra to a tractor pull or something…
Hey Porsche, NOW let’s race!
10,300 lb-ft of torque is all fine and dandy, but if you have to rev the engine up to 1,600 rpm what’s the point?
Now that’s funny!
Bet that Mini is hard on tires…