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RE: Diesel engines
Posted by: Tom Iwanski ()
Date: April 30, 2001 12:29PM

<HTML>Actually, there are a lot of two stroke diesels in trucks all over North America. Known as Detriot Diesels, they are built by General Motors and have a long history going back to WWII. The first Detriot I worked on was out of an old infantry landing craft (the venerable 6-71) Many WWII U.S. subs were powered by two-stroke V-16s known as the Winton V-type. They did have mechanical cam driven exhaust valves but recieved their intake air through a ring of ports toward the bottom of the liner.

The Fairbanks Morse was also used in subs and is still in use in many industrial applications (an electric power plant in Nebraska City, for one). The FB was an opposed piston type (rather than the horizontally opposed engine Kris refers to in Volkswagens) That means the there is no cylinder head, per se, since the pistons travel toward eachother to form the combustion chamber. This requires two crankshafts, as noted in Steve\'s post.

Regards,

Tom </HTML>

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Subject Written By Posted
Terrific Submarine weekend Kris 04/29/2001 05:59PM
RE: Terrific Submarine weekend Steve Cooper 04/29/2001 09:40PM
Diesel engines SuperKraut 04/30/2001 05:49AM
RE: Diesel engines Steve Cooper 04/30/2001 11:58AM
That\'s the one! Kris 04/30/2001 12:18PM
Not quite Steve Cooper 04/30/2001 03:46PM
RE: 2 cycles? Joe Brennan 05/01/2001 07:21AM
RE: 2 cycles? Tom Iwanski 05/01/2001 12:18PM
RE: 2 cycles? Eric Goethel 05/01/2001 08:42PM
RE: Fairbank Morse Joe Brennan 05/02/2001 06:01AM
RE: Diesel engines Rainer Bruns 04/30/2001 08:30PM
RE: Diesel engines Tom Iwanski 04/30/2001 09:32PM
RE: Diesel engines Rainer Bruns 05/01/2001 01:23AM
RE: Diesel engines Steve Cooper 05/01/2001 12:10PM
RE: Diesel engines Rainer Bruns 05/01/2001 02:12PM
RE: Diesel engines Steve Cooper 05/01/2001 06:12PM
RE: Diesel engines Rainer Bruns 05/01/2001 08:17PM
RE: Diesel engines Tom Iwanski 05/01/2001 08:56PM
RE: Diesel engines SuperKraut 05/01/2001 07:52PM
RE: Diesel engines Eric Goethel 05/01/2001 08:57PM
RE: Diesel engines Tom Iwanski 05/01/2001 09:12PM
RE: Diesel engines Rainer Bruns 05/01/2001 11:49PM
RE: Diesel engines Tom Iwanski 05/02/2001 12:50PM
RE: Diesel engines Rainer Bruns 05/02/2001 03:07PM
RE: Diesel engines John R. 05/02/2001 01:29PM
Fuel prices SuperKraut 05/03/2001 07:10AM
RE: Diesel engines Tom Iwanski 04/30/2001 12:29PM
RE: Terrific Submarine weekend Sean 04/30/2001 12:43PM
RE: Terrific Submarine weekend Frank Blazich 05/01/2001 11:24AM
RE: Terrific Submarine weekend Sean 05/03/2001 12:57PM
RE: Terrific Submarine weekend Angela 04/30/2001 11:42PM
RE: Terrific Submarine weekend Rainer Bruns 05/01/2001 12:39AM
RE: Terrific Submarine weekend Kris 05/01/2001 03:16PM


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