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Rocketsprink
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 06:10 am: | 
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Funny. Exxon/Mobil just past Wal-Mart in the Fortune 500's list of wealthiest Companies. What a shock! They are now number 1 |
Lowflyer
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 08:59 am: |
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What's wrong with being number 1? Are you not a shareholder? |
Chasespeed
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 11:23 am: |
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3618, is one HUGE Kitty.. V18, twin turbos.. I can put my daughter diown in the cylinder bore..and the turbo's are bigger that the wheels on my wifes truck...
Displacement, 333 liters, weight, 36,000 kilos, 7200 kw(approx 9800 HP)..lenght, 6.6 meters, width 3.1 meters, height, 3.4 liters there is 2 of these in eahc engine room...
The burn rate..@80-90 percent load, with 4 of them running, it was something like 1120 gallons per hour..I know they burn more than 360 an hour....thats at about 1030 rpms....
And didnt know you were talking about the older diesels...not to familiar with gm diesel from that era...
Chase |
Captpete
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 04:09 pm: |
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didnt know you were talking about the older diesels...
"original" or "industrial" might be a better description. Yesterday, I was looking at a brand new twin turbo 6V92 (6*92=552ci) sitting on the showroom floor of the local dealer here. (Wrong color.)
Your linkee no workee. I'd like to see that monster. |
Chasespeed
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 06:17 pm: |
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Sorry, that wasnt a link...it just did that becuase i put the at symbol in there...
http://www.cat.com/cda/layout?m=54040&x=7
Thats the best I can do...
Chase |
Cowboy
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 05, 2006 - 06:30 pm: |
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I thought you would like to know( almost like triva sure serves no perpose) before I retired I use to build oilfild equipment to work in the jungle. almost every motor has a special purpose. this equip. had to be light enough to heli lift, the V892 was the only one that I could use because of HP I need for the wt. also I was consumeing 100 hp off each cam tower GM would give me a warinty to do it. no other motor manufacture would. strange huh |
Captpete
| | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 03:25 am: |
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Ain't those cam drives handy? Pullin' all my hydraulics off one - 5 applications.
If it was anything like Venezuela, three-stand rigs w/ a bottom hole temp that would boil water in any puddles a line went through.
(I guess we're still talkin' about the price of gasoline.) |
Cowboy
| | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 05:26 am: |
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Up date on DETROIT DIESEL they are no longer owned by GM have been purchased by Daimler Chrysler. It looks like the old 2 stroke girles are about to be phasied out.They were to hard on fuel and the EPA raised so much hell.every thing is going to the series 60 4 stroke. Did you happen to work on the lake in Venzuela I spent a lot of time there in the 70 and early 80 .Notice I said they were hard on fuel. |
Captpete
| | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 08:03 am: |
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No, Cowboy, I was there in the middle 60's. My Dad worked for Mobil-Venezuela, the family moving there from Kansas right after I got out of high school. Worked one summer in high school on a pipeline crew in Kansas, and then spent some time in Venezuela when I got out of the army. The old man sent me into the llanos in the interior via a company DC3 supply plane where Mobil was developing a large field. Flew the main pipeline at a couple hundred feet, and spent a week there at the camp as a guest. Part of his grand plan for my future, but it never got off the ground. I thought I had a better idea.
And maybe I did. Who’s to judge? I never became president of Mobil or made a bunch of money, but I’ve done some fun stuff. Not too many years from now, if I make it that long, when I’m sitting in a wheelchair drooling, don’t worry about me. I’ll be watching some pretty cool old movies.
Like blowing up all those Buells.
I’m sure you got a few yourself. |
Captpete
| | Posted on Thursday, April 06, 2006 - 08:08 am: |
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You old Geezer! |
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