The Sulzer RTA84C two-stroke "Crosshead Diesel" engine has features guaranteed to overload the salivary glands of the most jaded high performance motorcycle junkie.
Picture this... in place of your Hayabusa's wimpy 97 pound weakling 1298cc, 175 HP four cylinder stock engine, a mighty twelve cylinder 15,990,427cc (975,795.75 cid) two-stroke deisel engine producing a whopping 66,120 HP at 102 rpm. That's more power than most third world countries. Redline doesn't come around until a stratospheric 120 rpm (two revolutions per second!). The Sulzer RTA84C produces enough torque to measurably alter the earth's rotational period.
With bore and stroke figures of 33.1 in. (84.074cm) and 94.5 in. (240.03 cm) respectively, an average family of four could comfortably live in a Sulzer RTA84C's twelve cylinders... that is until those giant pistons arrived to spoil the party.
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