No Spam In The Champagne Room - AKA Davey made me do it.

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Originally posted by Bangledesh

BE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT MY CAR AND MY WELL-BEING, YOU INSENSITIVE PEANUT-PUNCHERS!

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Originally posted by omuh

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Wow, now that's customized by crunch as my big brother would say...

Can tanks really go that fast? That's pretty awesome. Since war profiteers...I mean defense contractors keep building them even though the military doesn't need/want them anymore, I think they should start selling them to the consumer. Obviously with no weapons. I'd like a tank. That'd be sweet.

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Originally posted by Davey45

Can tanks really go that fast? That's pretty awesome. Since war profiteers...I mean defense contractors keep building them even though the military doesn't need/want them anymore, I think they should start selling them to the consumer. Obviously with no weapons. I'd like a tank. That'd be sweet.

It appears you can

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@ Davey45: M1 Tanks can hit about 30-32mph, and on paved roads about 45mph. We are talking about a 1,500+hp diesel engine here so torque has to be insanely high to move a heavy vehicle.

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Originally posted by Kanzen

@ Davey45: M1 Tanks can hit about 30-32mph, and on paved roads about 45mph. We are talking about a 1,500+hp diesel engine here so torque has to be insanely high to move a heavy vehicle.

I got a boner.

That is wrong. The American M-1 tank ( all versions) is powered by a gas turbine engine.....the only tank so powered. Torque you say ? Nothing has the stall torque of a gas turbine engine.

(The downside to a gas turbine is the fuel economy...not so good !)

And thanks in advance for your awesome votes...

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Originally posted by F1098

That is wrong. The American M-1 tank ( all versions) is powered by a gas turbine engine.....the only tank so powered.

Yeah, gas turbine doesn't mean what you think it means. Gas turbine is a type of internal combustion engine, not what it particularly runs on. The Honeywell AGT1500 gas turbine engine is a multi-fuel engine and the military primary uses diesel and diesel variants like JP-8 in it; because it is more fuel efficient and is easier to store. It is still a diesel engine, it isn't just a conventional diesel engine.

http://www.honeywell.com/sites/aero/Turboprops3_CDF1BA7AE-8A37-9A78-EC1A-E00A4B74F3E9_H52422376-8368-1EC3-AA6D-83165D399CBF.htm

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Originally posted by F1098

Torque you say ? Nothing has the stall torque of a gas turbine engine.

Actually electric motors have better stall toque, that is why they are used in almost all trains. The diesel engines in trains are used to power the electrical motors that actually move the wheels. We are talking trains being in the 130-140 ton range. That is why almost all of the trains in use today are diesel-hybrids.

I don't know crap about turbine engines. I'm more of a piston guy.

I jus want one for the evening rush home, that way red lights are such a waste of time.

Gonna hit the local brewery tonight.
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Kanzen, please don't mess with me and twist things around. When someone says "diesel engine" they are talking about a piston engine that has compression ignition, OK ?

Honeywell turbines ? I took my engineering grad student internship at Honeywell. So back off and stop throwing the BS around, or I will bore everyone here to tears about the M-1 tank. I have literally "been there and done that". Matter of fact, I will be there ( GDLS...your town right...Detroit ?) next Tuesday.

Shall I meet you in the lobby ?


( Want to know more about the M-1 ? Talk to Bangles who has street cred in that he has driven one.)

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Originally posted by Kanzen

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Yeah, gas turbine doesn't mean what you think it means. Gas turbine is a type of internal combustion engine, not what it particularly runs on. The Honeywell AGT1500 gas turbine engine is a multi-fuel engine and the military primary uses diesel and diesel variants like JP-8 in it; because it is more fuel efficient and is easier to store. It is still a diesel engine, it isn't just a conventional diesel engine.

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Actually electric motors have better stall toque, that is why they are used in almost all trains. The diesel engines in trains are used to power the electrical motors that actually move the wheels. We are talking trains being in the 130-140 ton range. That is why almost all of the trains in use today are diesel-hybrids.

Oh no you di-int

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Originally posted by F1098

Kanzen, please don't mess with me and twist things around. When someone says "diesel engine" they are talking about a piston engine that has compression ignition, OK ?

That is your assumption, not mine. When someone says gasoline engine, diesel engine, electric engine, I think first and foremost of that engine running on it's descriptor.

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Originally posted by F1098

Honeywell turbines ? I took my engineering grad student internship at Honeywell. So back off and stop throwing the BS around, or I will bore everyone here to tears about the M-1 tank. I have literally "been there and done that". Matter of fact, I will be there ( GDLS...your town right...Detroit ?) next Tuesday.

Shall I meet you in the lobby ?

Bring it on! I can take you. People in the lobby will be all like, "DAMN! HE JUST TIGER BOMBED/DRIVERED AN EXPECTANT MOTHER RIGHT INTO THE GROUND. STONE COLD. SHE IS DOWN FOR THE COUNT. KANZEN IS WALKING AWAY WITH THE TITLE BELT, THIS WASN'T EVEN A MATCH—THIS WAS A MASSACRE."

You make me feel like Clint Eastwood in that movie where he has this giant hand gun...as big as an anvil....pointed at this guys's head and he is discussing probability with this new acquaintance, ya know ?

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Originally posted by Kanzen

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That is your assumption, not mine. When someone says gasoline engine, diesel engine, electric engine, I think first and foremost of that engine running on it's descriptor.

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Bring it on! I can take you. People in the lobby will be all like, "DAMN! HE JUST TIGER BOMBED/DRIVERED AN EXPECTANT MOTHER RIGHT INTO THE GROUND. STONE COLD. SHE IS DOWN FOR THE COUNT. KANZEN IS WALKING AWAY WITH THE TITLE BELT, THIS WASN'T EVEN A MATCH—THIS WAS A MASSACRE."

Except there is nothing in your S&W. :P

Sooo.

Maybe we should stalk Davey...considering he TOLD US EXACTLY WHERE HE'D BE.

Still here. Got a good buzz. They released a bunch of pie themed beers for pi day.

I like pie