The 378' Coast Guard cutters (the big white ones) have their 2 main "diesel" engines running JP5 fuel thru Fairbanks Morse 12 cyl with 2 pistons/cyl vertically opposed. Similar setup..2 injectors per cyl at about 3000HP/ engine...
The cool ones are the pair of Pratt Whitney jet engines (707 vintage) though...kick into high gear and go over 40 knots but burn 1000 gal/hr of the jp5 juice...loved it down there when things were crankin'

Daryl of AA Transaxle
425-788-4070
"On the cutting edge of old technology"

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Sudhir Desai
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:00 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: LVC: OPOC engine

That's a slick engine concept.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 09:54, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> Been waiting for Friday to post this....
>
> http://www.autoblog.com/2009/11/30/autoline-on-autoblog-with-john-mcelroy/
>
> Now, I would not go as far as the author and call this a "radically new"
> type of engine.  But it's interesting, and the layout looks a lot like a
> boxer.  If these things make it to market, they might be a great option
> for engine transplants.
>
> Another VW connection, according to this article, the engineer who
> designed this spent 20 years at volkswagen.
>
> Allan
> --
> 1991 Vanagon GL
>