The basic Chevy "Stove Bolt" six traces it's lineage back to the late 20's. The 4.1 was designed in 1962. Good engine, but only 125 hp from 4.1...
Well actually Brian, there has been a trend to 6 cylinder engines, but these virtually all have been V6 engines and they are a lot lighter than...
My point was related to ANY application, both marine, automotive or even aircraft. The simple point being that a V8 (or an opposed)...
All of this stuff goes back to the "adiabatic diesel engine" that was the big talk a while ago... except they forgot that lubricants burn at the...
Pratt & Whitney developed "Carboblast", soft walnut shells, for cleaning turbines in the 1950's You can still put that kind of stuff down older...
Improving exhaust valve life is a good thing, but that's really tough to do with ceramics. Their brittle nature means that some will work fine...
While a straight six is the smallest cylinder count that has primary and secondary balance, it isn't that great in terms of power to weight ratio....
Probably the inspiration for the song "BEEP BEEP"!!! The Playmates - Beep Beep Lyrics
One boring Saturday afternoon when we were working on a racing Mini we got the wild hair to stuff all the racing parts under a pink Moke that had...
It is my firm belief (although I have no direct proof of this) that Sir Alec Issigonis (designer of the original Mini) can trace his ancestry...
The key advantage of flywheels systems, as used in KERS applications is that they have a high power density. That is, they can be discharged and...
The temp rating isn't the issue, I've used Dynamat in a car for road noise reduction (plastic rear cargo floor area of a Corvette) and it is fine...
Dynamat is simply a high mass material. While that does attenuate sound, I don't believe Dynamat is fire resistant and I would not use it in a...
The Icon, like most other LSA aircraft is pretty much a toy. A pretty neat toy, but a toy nonetheless. The Seawind is (was) pretty much a...
As always there are two sides to every coin. For every honest entrepreneur intent on building his company the right way there are probably 4 or 5...
Perhaps I should have put it in terms of Froude number, but if you can afford the weight and volume big low speed diesels are fine. To live with...
I don't think that many of the owners of large yachts value speed that much. They go to their boats to relax and going fast simply isn't a...
As noted, gas turbines can be geared to run props or water jets. In most "booster" applications they drive water jets because the drag from a...
A battleship is not a small "bobbing target". It is moving up and down, but the amount of movement in the up and down direction isn't as great,...
They demonstrated that they could do it from miles away. No industrial laser can do that, keeping the beam controlled and projecting that much...
