cfherrman
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Do the old Detroit trick and put them end to end and make it a v16
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Truck Shop
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Has to be able to produce minimum of 500 hp 1850 torque at a steady 1,300 rpm.
DMiller
Senior Member
Still Prefer RR, Merlins!!!
Welder Dave
Senior Member
Seen both Packards and Merlins in tractor pullers.
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Truck Shop
Senior Member
That's only/if Packard still existed.
Truck Shop
Senior Member
Probably better to try and make work what there is.
digger doug
Senior Member
Gas turbine running an electric drive....any toque you want.
hosspuller
Senior Member
Now you're back to diesel fuel again. Hey what engine did the Sherman tanks of WW2 use? I kinda remember a radial aircraft engine of some sort. Shermans were supposed to be reliable over the German Panther
Truck Shop
Senior Member
Truck Shop
Senior Member
A better photo-read the caption. This is a 1950 KW.
Truck Shop
Senior Member
Big Gas Pot engines? Well here's a one off that Kenworth built with the rare three man cab.
Powered by a 2182 cu.in. Hall Scott V12 Invader produced 600 plus hp. Couldn't afford the gas.
Powered by a 2182 cu.in. Hall Scott V12 Invader produced 600 plus hp. Couldn't afford the gas.
digger doug
Senior Member
I think they did not run an electric drive.
Smaller turbine, keep it buzzed up for efficiency, freq. drives on electric wheel motors would be better.
Turbines have become more efficient from those days.
The reason land vehicle turbines never went much beyond the research stage is fuel consumption. Nowadays emissions would be a huge stumbling block as well, despite efficiency increases.
digger doug
Senior Member
No...turbine can run on whatever you want.
digger doug
Senior Member
For some reason the air-o-planes flying overhead seem to meet emissions.....
Truck Shop
Senior Member
Turbines eat way too much fuel that's the problem.
Land vehicles have much different regulations to meet.
the other part of factor of turbine engines and aircraft is that jet engines have much lower fuel consumption up in the flight levels than down here at ground level. It’s one of the reasons that airliners fly way up there.