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- From: boutzev@lcaohp2.epfl.ch (Lubomir Boutzev)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Soviet Air-cooled diesel engines
- Message-ID: <4578@sicsun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 23:12:46 GMT
- References: <4336.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> <C0HFL7.Kr0@panix.com> <4573@sicsun.epfl.ch> <1993Jan8.185219.28648@nosc.mil>
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- In article <1993Jan8.185219.28648@nosc.mil>, koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil (Walter A. Koziarz) writes:
-
- |> hmmmmmmmm, I don't know *what* it was you saw, but the 'hummer' is not
- |> aircooled... it's powered by the second-generation GM conversion engine and is
- |> liquid-cooled...
- |>
- |> Walt K.
-
- here are details of what I really saw:
- I travelled across Germany and stopped every 4 hours at highway restauroutes
- in order to get some rest.
- This time there was an unusual for german mentality crowd around some military
- colored vehicles.
- I went too and I saw a all-road US-force vehicle that had crushed the
- back of a civilian VW passat.
- The GI had his feet a little loose on the brake. Or he was not used yet to german
- beer.
- After the formalities were over I went and talked to the driver.
- This was something like 2 years and 6 months ago.
- The guy was polite enough to explain me that the vehicle he was
- in charge of was a hummer.
- Automatic transmission and 8 cyl air cooled dieselo he said.....
- Torsen limited slip differentials. Went near 110 km/h when in good mood.
- He didn't agree to show me the engine.
- He was also unable to tell me how could I buy one in Europe.
- Hmmmmmmmm. That's was what I've seen and heard from an american soldier
- driving what he called a hummer. This piece of machinery looked like the very
- same ones we have seen on CNN during the desert storm reports.
- Either he had a different model of hummer either he was "misleading the ennemy"
- either the technical training of the US army has to be improved.
- BTW the hummer in quetstion produced a engine noise very similar to the
- ones typically made by engines that have to spin a good size air-cooling
- turbine.
- Go find out....
- L.B.
-
- P.S.
- The long gone mythic Citroen 2CV (2 cyl boxer petrol front wheel drive)
- was air-cooled.
- This was probably one of the greatest french cars that made words such as
- speed, performance, acceleration obsolete when compared to friendship,
- fuel-economy, low-cost, everlasting life and fun.
- In memory, RIP.
-