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PT Boat Engine Room Walk-through Tour
serf
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Interesting Historical item to view! The noise down there would be horrible at full speed!
serf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sx_AxoK7Cc
serf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sx_AxoK7Cc
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He works on a team that has a piston driven salt flat car. There is a spare engine for that boat in their shop, I've had a pretty close look at it. Supercharger with a pre-cooler, pretty forward thinking for the time.
The half owner in Broughton Limber Company of Willard WA, D.M. Stevenson, had a yacht that was built from a PT boat, a beautiful boat he named the Black Prince. When he bought it, it had the Packard power, it soon became evident it was too expensive to run, and he repowered it with 3 671 Detroit's.
Interesting link, thank you Serf.
W.D.
Happy Fourth of July! Those Packards Engines where Copies of Merlin marine engines according to the second video posted.
serf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_V-1650
I am surprised it burns avgas, I thought all the boats burned diesel.
Three V12 Packard engines, and 1,200 gallons of avgas. Damn! What a bad * boat.
I am surprised it burns avgas, I thought all the boats burned diesel.
That was one of the reasons Mr. Stevenson repowered his boat, and that PT boats where called floating bombs, ave gas and ave gas fumes. Back during WW2, ave gas was 110 octane.
Some of the PT boats had Hallscott gas engines, 1100 cu. in. gas 6 cylinders, but I've not ever heard of a diesel PT boat.
Landing craft had 6-110 Detroit diesels, PT boats where gas.
W.D.
just another example of brave men and the conditions they endured to protect us .