Re: Diesel ...NO Manifolds?

bob urz wrote:
> http://www.sae.org/automag/technewsletter/080108Tech/01.htm
> 
> bob


I've been wondering how long it would take before a manufacturer built 
an automotive diesel v8 this way. Its been the norm in locomotive 
engines for decades- both the EMD 2-strokes and the GE FDL 4-stroke 
locomotive diesels have the exhaust in the "valley". On the GE, the 
intakes are "logs" along the outside where car v-type engines would have 
exhaust manifolds, and on the EMD 2-strokes the intake is through the 
cylinder case. Caterpillar marine diesels are laid out the same way- 
exhaust and turbos in the "V", intake trunks along the outside of the "V".