aksturgeon.com/2009/04/20/wa … el-engine/
Specifically, the 14 cylinder version:
Total engine weight: 2300 tons (The crankshaft alone weighs 300 tons.)
Length: 89 feet
Height: 44 feet
Bore: 38″ / Stroke: 98″
Maximum power: 108,920 hp at 102 rpm
Maximum torque: 5,608,312 lb/ft at 102rpm
That should make for some good track times, no?
That engine has a worse power to weight ratio than a car! Right around 42 lbs/hp. So, even if you just made a transmission and a chassis, minimum weight possible (with tires big enough to hold the power), it would not be that fast.
Well thats a Revved up promotional stunt…
Like what I did there 
Is that engine a aircraft or tank engine? I find it hard to believe any company built a 2300 ton engine for a automobile!
Ship engine! Also I believe holds the record for the best fuel economy per HP of any piston engine.
Ship engine! Also I believe holds the record for the best fuel economy per HP of any piston engine.[/quote]
I still wouldn’t want to see the gas mileage of this thing in a car. 
Would make for a interesting conversation with a ricer though.
Ricer: What you got in that museum display?
Hot Rodder: Just a big 14 cylinder
Ricer: Bet my Vortec will smoke your boat anchor to the bottom
Hot Rodder: Want to race for pinks?
Ricer: Your on
Hot Rodder: You lost already unless you have a jet under your hood
Ricer: Not if you have a ancient 14 cylinder under your hood
Hot Rodder: Who said it couldn’t haul ass?
Ricer: How many horses you got
Hot Rodder: About 109,000 HP at about 102 rpm
Ricer: About 
Hot Rodder: Yup. The motor Shelled the Dyno just shy of that. It didn’t calculate higher then that either:D
Ricer:
Hot Rodder: You should have asked me the displacement to, but I think its easy for you to understand 1 piston weighs more then your car
Ricer: “Mumbles to self” I knew I should have got a V8
So this can be called the Ricers worst nightmare then
Ehh, why would a ricer be using a Vortec engine? Those are GM truck V8s and I6s.
lol. Honda does have vortec heads. I just think they don’t advertise it due to copyright, kind of like the hemi head. Several automakers now make hemi style heads, but only Mopar can use the term.
I think you mean VTEC
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I think you mean VTEC[/quote]
honda is not even close to a vortec, for 1 thing GM engines are pushrod or OHV engines.
I always though Honda Vtech stood for vortech. I just looked it up and realized how wrong I was. I never really read up on rice cars to much. Half of my hateful sentiment with Hondas happened when I had to keep fixing my moms 01 Accord. They claimed to be one of the most reliable cars when she bought it , and I was always fixing it. Then my 97 Rivierra supercharged ran better at 230,000 then the Honda at 180,000. I didn’t have to fix hardly anything on the Rivy except the trans that’s known to have a sticky pressure valve. I then realized Honda reliability claims are only half true.
i used to have a Honda… and say whatever you want - the thing is as reliable as a car can possibly get, and repairs are easy