Check Out This Video of Big Engines Firing Up
We all love internal combustion. It gets us where we’re going and does it efficiently, too. At least it does nowadays.
But internal combustion wasn’t always this way. Before there was direct injection, computer-controlled timing advance, and pre-detonation sensors, there were these big-bore bruisers. Gigantic two-stroke diesels share the stage with stationary V12s and humongous single-cylinder remnants of the Industrial Revolution.
Nothing’s quite so satisfying as these big beasts of horsepower belch to a start.
Belcha-belcha-BLAP!
Click on and enjoy.