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  1. timbillyosu

    Flywheel Design for a Diesel Engine

    patdaly, right now we are using 4.5". We are also currently using a dry-sleeve configuration. We may be switching to a wet sleeve in the future and in that case, the pistons may grow a little. As of now, we are only focuding on the marine market. We figure we'll let all the big boys worry...
  2. timbillyosu

    Flywheel Design for a Diesel Engine

    Stroke length is 5"
  3. timbillyosu

    Flywheel Design for a Diesel Engine

    Wow... thanks for all the responses! First I guess I should have given more information about the current engine. Right now, we have a 6-cylinder inline diesel engine with 4.5" pistons. The engine is currently N/A but will be turbocharged/aftercooled for production (we had an issue with...
  4. timbillyosu

    Flywheel Design for a Diesel Engine

    We think it needs to be heavier. Comparing numbers with other engines of close to the same size, we've found that our Flywheel is much lighter. I want to see if this is truly a big problem or if we can keep going with what we have.
  5. timbillyosu

    Flywheel Design for a Diesel Engine

    My boss has tasked me with designing a better Flywheel for the prototype diesel engine that we are working on (www.buckdiesel.com) I have a Bachelor's from Ohio State, but I will be the first to tell you that we covered precious little of what I would call "Practical knowledge" in our classes...

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