And for total crazy, read into R G LeTourneau
He put 8, yes eight, 16v-71's onto a scraper back in the mid 60's.
LeTourneau Lt-360: The largest self-loading scraper ever built.
Look at this thing!oppositelock.kinja.com
Holy hell... Look at that thing. Wonder what happened to it? Probably scrapped I would assume? Can you imagine the noise that thing must have made?
You'd almost think at that point it would be more simple to build a machine around a detroit EMD 567 two stroke locomotive/marine diesel engine at that point where you're running 8 separate 16v71's.
My friend used to work at a small railroad company that operated a couple of old diesel freight locomotives in limited commercial service and a steam locomotive for tourist rides. Anyway they had either EMD 567 or 645 detroit diesels and I remember one of them bent a pushrod one time. He kept the bent pushrod as a souvenir, it's huge, couple feet long and probably like one and a half inch outer diameter... And I can't imagine the force it took to bend it, it's got a wicked curve in it like a giant steel banana. Makes a car engine pushrod look like a twig.
Edit: Hnmm... According to that wiki they're overhead cam engines. So wonder what the heck that rod was for, I remember him specifically saying it came out of one of their diesel locomotives.
EMD 567 - Wikipedia
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