alan-g-w
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quote: Originally posted by Seany
tbh i have no idea i just see the things every day, must be to stop something
What do you work as?
and eel, less than 50 bar isn't really narrowing things down is it I'd be guessing it's something ridiculous though.
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John
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I've been looking for how much boost it runs since you asked and I can't find it anywhere.
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sand-eel
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same here, can't find the price either, unless I email the company.
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RCS
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Would imagine boost would be rather high as engine speed is so low.
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John
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i'd guess at ~£5 million, possibly even many times that.
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alan-g-w
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Cheers for the effort lads.
As for price, I'm gonna go for about £7-10million. I can't even grasp the amount of machining that would go into it, let alone the machines that worked on it!
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mattk
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Id be more impressed with a miniture version, harder to make summat small is it not?
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sand-eel
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Each piston weighs 5.5tons and the cranks weighs 300tons
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DannyB
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I'm no engine expert, far from it actually so this may be a noobish question, will that turbo just spool up like on a smaller turbo engine or would it be a very gradual thing, as Imagine the engine stays pretty constant on its journey, how would the turbo be acting?
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John
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I don't know the technical explanation but the engine only has about 5rpm rev range so i'd assume it's pretty constant.
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sand-eel
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The turbo will be on constant boost as engine load and RPM will be constant, I imagine boost would take a few minutes anyway.
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DannyB
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I see, imagine the noise of that then, looks really surreal on the back of that truck.
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noshua
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fuck me that's absolutely massive
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Wrighty
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o.m.g
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Hammer
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Does it remap as well as a VAG though?
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Behr
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imagine whacking a dump valve on that turbo and getting it to dump.....
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Gavin
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VTEC?
pew pew pew pewwwww
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IvIarkgraham
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we do massive con rods in work
nothing that big though
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ed
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I was shown some old pictures of an engine like that being made in the UK yesterday. Must have been in the 60's or something. Someone on here mentioned that the engine looks normal, just massive, the same goes with the tools they were using, they all looked like normal mills, lathes e.t.c.., just supersized!
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Nick-S
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fuck me thats
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BluKoo
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Seen this a few times before, but i've never seen the turbo pic with it.
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
[Edited on 10-06-2009 by BluKoo]
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sand-eel
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^^^ the newest 2006 version has 114800bhp, must have an apexi boost controller or something fitted.
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