This is one hell of an engine.
Some facts on the 14 cylinder version:
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
More here: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/
i watched a programme the other day on discovery featuring this boat engine.
truely awesome.
imagine how much stainless steel would be needed to make an eminox for that beast. 
Woww… that is some beast!!! 
I used to repair machine that make 1.8 Turbo Diesel Crankshafts, and the machine to make them were bad enough… I’d hate to thing of the size of the grinders that ground that crank… LOL
mal… you should of put that engine in your favorit and kept it mate… … 
ohterry555:
mal… you should of put that engine in your favorit and kept it mate…
LMAO! why didnt i think of that Tez!
dave:
i watched a programme the other day on discovery featuring this boat engine.
truely awesome.
imagine how much stainless steel would be needed to make an eminox for that beast.
amazing aint it. 120 rpm, it sound good with a strait through!
AndyM:
Woww… that is some beast!!!I used to repair machine that make 1.8 Turbo Diesel Crankshafts, and the machine to make them were bad enough… I’d hate to thing of the size of the grinders that ground that crank… LOL
Just to think, we did all that type of stuff here many moons ago.
Truely unreal 
Glad Im not filling the tank up lol 
Mal, its not all gloom and doom. Yes, we’ve lost Gardner and Dorman and the like but Mirrlees Blackstone are still producing some fairly big lumps although nothing the size of the cathedral shown above.
Something like 8 generations of my predecessors were merchant seamen and one of my earliest memories is of standing on a piston INSIDE the cylinder of an engine. Seem to recall there were 3 other blokes in their besides us two. It was being given a decoke by a bloke with an angle grinder!
Dave, do you remember the big engines they made at Mirlees Blackstones in Stamford. They had like a test/showroom place right by the main road so you could see them BUT none that size. Sadly Blackstone as gone now I believe & its a retail park.
Im glad to hear that QHunter!
I still go to the old Dorman plant in Stafford for engines loaded in boxes to all over, but now its Perkins and although they do some largish stuff, nothing to what youve see, or that Sulzer!
Amazing beast. Just imagine trying to change the oil on it.
I thought the generator I picked up a couple of months ago was probably the biggest engine you could get - a V16 Caterpillar producing 2000 bhp, filling three-quarters of a 40’ container.
Never considered they made anything bigger, it would be awesome to see one close-up ! How much diesel does it consume per hour ?
Fuel consumption at maximum power is 0.278 lbs per hp per hour (Brake Specific Fuel Consumption). Fuel consumption at maximum economy is 0.260 lbs/hp/hour. At maximum economy the engine exceeds 50% thermal efficiency. That is, more than 50% of the energy in the fuel in converted to motion.
For comparison, most automotive and small aircraft engines have BSFC figures in the 0.40-0.60 lbs/hp/hr range and 25-30% thermal efficiency range.Even at it’s most efficient power setting, the big 14 consumes 1,660 gallons of heavy fuel oil per hour.
There ya go Brummie!