MAAAAAAAAN

 

I've got bigger than that on my lawn mower.

 

Pretty cool. Check the one out on an EMD 20 cylinder some time.

 

is that a turbo or some sort of supercharger?? Looks like it is belt driven....

 

The Cooper-Bessemer ET-24 turbocharger we use on some Cooper-Bessemer 2-cycle and 4-cycle engines has a compressor impeller diameter of 24". It takes approximately 5,000 EGHP (exhaust gas horsepower) to drive it to full output. The 13,500 BHP @ 330 RPM Cooper-Bessemer 20Z-330 (V-20 2-cycle, 20" bore and 18" stroke) uses 2 each ET-24's, 1 for each bank of 10 cylinders.

There are much bigger turbos out there than the ET-24. Look at some of the units on the superlongstroke marine diesels.

Rusty

 

That is a turbo you can see the exhaust housing. Look how wide the back tires are!!

 

Hi Guys,
I'm an engineer in the U. S. Coast Guard and on some of our medium endurance cutters we have 18 cyl. Alco's with a 4 ft. dia. turbo housing, now, that's a big turbo !

Chip

 

RustyCJ we must work on similar equipment. That's just a baby turbo. Worked on a lot of White-Syperiors, Coopers, Clarks and Ingersolls with bigger than that. Probably biggest was on Cooper V-275. Now it's mainly Kitty-Cat 4 strokes and GE Turbines cranking out 28 megawatt. Used to work on EMD's too but the 16 cyl 645 I worked on had Root's Blowers on them. Look's like a cool rig though. Do you have a profile shot of it Dieseldude?

 

So, when this thing goes down the track, is there a small black "cloud like" object directly in front of the car where even light cant excape the pull of that turbo?



Rich

 

What are they planning on doing with the exhaust once it leaves the turbo? There isn't much room for any kind of elbow on there.

 

Depending on how many cylinders it has, a V-275 probably uses either 1 or 2 ET-18 turbos - an 18" compressor impeller. The ET-18 has outboard bearings (a beam-style rotor) versus the ET-24's inboard bearings (an overhung rotor).

I've worked for Cooper Energy Services (Cooper-Bessemer, Superior, Enterprise, Ajax, etc.) for over 30 years.

Rusty