Hello people, this post goes for many of us with technical background and motorsport interests... Yesterday we took one shuttle-boat to make the trip back to the hotel after visiting the Wat-Pho temple. To my surprise, I relised that the Thais have a very KISS way of solving needs. See the pictures below? They power these motorboats with turbocharged diesel engines from old trucks. The whole package contains the fan/radiator system as well as the turbocharger and a direct exhaust "ala" side-pipe. What are those unnecesary noise absorbers, particle filters and oxidizing catalizators?
Just a little bit dangerous, sometimes the engines are air cooled with a mechanical fan, so next to the "driver" sits the high speed rotating blades without any kind of protection. Bestimmt TÜV zugelassen...
But!, for safety reasons they put the gearbox in neutral when standing still...hehe. The propeler is directly attached to the original truck propshaft.
IM-PRESIONANT!
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