108,920 HP 12 cylinder engine

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

Total engine weight: 2300 tons (The crankshaft alone weighs 300 tons.)
Length: 89 feet
Height: 44 feet
Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm
Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm

The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today. The Aioi Works of Japan's Diesel United, Ltd built the first engines and is where some of these pictures were taken.

It is available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines. These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships. Ship owners like a single engine/single propeller design and the new generation of larger container ships needed a bigger engine to propel them.

The cylinder bore is just under 38" and the stroke is just over 98". Each cylinder displaces 111,143 cubic inches (1820 liters) and produces 7780 horsepower. Total displacement comes out to 1,556,002 cubic inches (25,480 liters) for the fourteen cylinder version.

^hand cranking it

They should totally drop that into a VW bug.  Best sleeper ever.

By the looks of it, each cylinder would use a few gallons of fuel for every rotation.

This is older than the internet itself

Tolgak wrote: By the looks of it, each cylinder would use a few gallons of fuel for every rotation.

At the most fuel efficant time for the big 14 cylinder one it uses 1660 gallons of heavy oil per hour. They have to keep it running at all times or else it takes too much fuel and effort to start up. So when its not in use its running on two cylinders.

I have a bigger engine in my truck. 

if only with were a stick shift....

thats pretty badass.

.357 Magnum wrote: Tical2.0 wrote: thats pretty badass. Someone else used to have that sig, was it panda man ? I can't remember.

If he did, then he is a smart man and I applaud him on his taste in sig's