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Okay, so I was reading about the Lycoming )-1230 (basically a giant-ass flat 12 engine), and stumbled across the
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again. Holy balls. That is all.
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5,000hp with air and water cooling. I think only a handful were built.
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You may like this then:
Coming from our bavarian friends...
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damn you nibbles...
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You can't see the drool, but there is a puddle here.
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...totaling about 7,750 in³.
Holy fuckballs.
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Yeah, I know. You look at it in a picture, and you're like "wait, that doesn't seem so..." and then you see the displacement and WHOA
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If you have yet to go, I highly recommend the udvar-hazy branch of the air&space museum. Its a quick bus drive around back of the Dulles airport. It has a fantastic engine history section.
With that done. Heres a diesel built like that xr engine from a missile boat.
http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/maximum-badass…
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It even had VTEC yo.