Friday, December 12, 2008

The big beautiful engine



October 2006

The Nissan MD92 is a 9.2 litre diesel truck motor. It is very simple, naturally aspirated (no turbo) big mechanical diesel injector pump, nothing that your average mechanically minded yachtie couldn't sort out at sea or in a foreign port (hopefully). It develops 220HP at 2900rpm, but peak torque at just 1400rpm. It will swing a 24" prop, through a 2:1 ratio gearbox.

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