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- From: koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil (Walter A. Koziarz)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Soviet Air-cooled diesel engines
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.170037.5621@nosc.mil>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 17:00:37 GMT
- Article-I.D.: nosc.1993Jan10.170037.5621
- References: <4573@sicsun.epfl.ch> <1993Jan8.185219.28648@nosc.mil> <4578@sicsun.epfl.ch>
- Sender: usenet@nosc.mil (Network News)
- Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
- Lines: 40
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- In article <4578@sicsun.epfl.ch> boutzev@lcaohp1.epfl.ch writes:
- >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:
-
- [ much deleted... ]
-
- >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.
-
- well, I have no doubt that you recall correctly what that particular GI told
- you; but, as you suggested, he *was* incorrect... the hummer is most assuredly
- powered (if you can call it that) by a GM 6.2 liter, second-generation
- gas-to-Diesel conversion engine and is most assuredly liquid-cooled. I
- appologize for that GI's lack of familiarity with his vehicle (lord help him if
- he ever needs to make a field-repair... all that liquid coolant will surely
- confuse the living h*ll out of him...).
-
- Walt K.
-
- p.s. -- hummers can be purchased by civilians in the U.S. I have no idea
- whether they are available elsewhere, however...
-