seems to say you can't use air-cooled diesel in a boat

Discussion in 'Diesel Engines' started by Squidly-Diddly, Oct 23, 2023.

  1. DogCavalry
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    DogCavalry Senior Member

    Noise is the insurmountable issue with air cooling. It's intrinsically high speed high turbulence high volume flow.
     

  2. BMcF
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    BMcF Senior Member

    My impression from being around those Deutz engines a lot is that the really irritating loud noise is due in no small part to the fact that there is nothing but steel cylinder and fins between the always-noisy diesel combustion process, and the outside. No water jacket and thick outside casting to dampen that. Long before we ever tried to use them in surface effect ships, I grew up on a farm that was next to another farm that had several Deutz tractors. We could tell from a half mile away when one of those was out working... ;-)
     
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