Awesome info there Rowell, to be fair, all the "unanswerable's " i can chuck to the money bags, and let them ponder over it all.
i think with the torque on the engine, pushing water shouldn't be too much of an issue.
as for the chassis itself, an engineer could deisgn something im sure, with various ballast elements to accomodate for the extra weight.
The cooling is still an issue, though, how would salt water react in a car engine; adopting a standard water pump to pump sea water through the system?
Interesttttting...
Edit (Ruans post) interesting stuff there mate; with the water exchanger, i you talking about a type of heatsink system? bypassing a sea water system along side a standard system, and exchanging heat that way? i dont understand and these looops.. :/
Pumps, lowing RPM's, im sure Dan!/Pump knowledgeables could sort this for a few £££...
As for Yanmar, what we were discussing earlier was taking this away from the usual maritime engines, but to take a cheap and economical engine to save money at sea. I hear endless stories of the price people are paying for boat repairs. There must be a slot this could sit into.
i think with the torque on the engine, pushing water shouldn't be too much of an issue.
as for the chassis itself, an engineer could deisgn something im sure, with various ballast elements to accomodate for the extra weight.
The cooling is still an issue, though, how would salt water react in a car engine; adopting a standard water pump to pump sea water through the system?
Interesttttting...
Edit (Ruans post) interesting stuff there mate; with the water exchanger, i you talking about a type of heatsink system? bypassing a sea water system along side a standard system, and exchanging heat that way? i dont understand and these looops.. :/
Pumps, lowing RPM's, im sure Dan!/Pump knowledgeables could sort this for a few £££...
As for Yanmar, what we were discussing earlier was taking this away from the usual maritime engines, but to take a cheap and economical engine to save money at sea. I hear endless stories of the price people are paying for boat repairs. There must be a slot this could sit into.
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