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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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A hard hat laying on top of a piston in a 14 cyl MAN/STX. This on a drillship. We had 6x 18-cylinder Wartsilas on another rig I worked on and several jackups through the years had 12 cyl EMDs.
And just to start 16 cyl EMD's, they take 15? minutes to open 38? valves, prelube, close 36? valves and air start.
"?" marks mean near as I can remember. I was working as Captain and had 16 cyl EMD's later NOHABS and STORKS in 200'+ Supply Tugs setting anchors and towing floaters, pretty much all over the world. The smaller boats with EMD's had twin 8-71's for bow thrusters.
I had some incredible Engineers that shipped with me on those boats.
 
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470+ inch

Could have went the easy way with an LS but why be like everyone else?
Man, so few people understand the power of the big inch Olds! I had a 71 Cutlass convertible with a very mild .030 over 455 that would absolutely embarrass everything factory, except the Grand Nationals. I kept the 10.25 compression and ran tetra-ethyl lead additive, from Stone Oil. I think the compression really helped the mild cam. Ahh, those days were good! To this day, I have a love for big inch Oldsmobiles.
 
Man, so few people understand the power of the big inch Olds! I had a 71 Cutlass convertible with a very mild .030 over 455 that would absolutely embarrass everything factory, except the Grand Nationals. I kept the 10.25 compression and ran tetra-ethyl lead additive, from Stone Oil. I think the compression really helped the mild cam. Ahh, those days were good! To this day, I have a love for big inch Oldsmobiles.
When I was a kid, my dad had a '68 442. I knew it was cool then, but I wasn't old enough to drive it. Or joy-ride it. Plus, back then it was 'just a car' to most people.
Huge regret that he sold that car. Wish we still had it today.
 
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The motor made 500 ft lbs at 3200 and 425 hp on 93 pump gas on the dyno.
Man, so few people understand the power of the big inch Olds! I had a 71 Cutlass convertible with a very mild .030 over 455 that would absolutely embarrass everything factory, except the Grand Nationals. I kept the 10.25 compression and ran tetra-ethyl lead additive, from Stone Oil. I think the compression really helped the mild cam. Ahh, those days were good! To this day, I have a love for big inch Oldsmobiles.
It's in a 66 B body Jetstar 88 that weighs in at a little over 4K lbs.
I've done an old Buick, Camaro, Duster, Gran Torino and a couple Chevy trucks. The Olds was my wife's birthday present a couple years ago and I wanted to stay with the Olds motor instead of the Chevy hybrid.