<VV> Re: Air-cooled V-12

[Thesuperscribe at cs.com]

I'm coming into this thread late, but here's a comment on the Continental 
V-12 diesel in M-60 (and M-48A3) battle tanks... The engine was (is) air-cooled, 
so wouldn't it be neat to slip one into the back of a Rampside? 

Also, while the reference (below) sent in by Tony states its horsepower as 
750, we we told by the Army's Armor School folks in 1965 (a l-o-n-g time ago) 
that the rating was cut to 742.5 hp, due to a switch to leaner injectors that 
caused less exhaust smoke. A cleaner environment was not the reason; less smoke 
makes a tank harder to spot from a distance, or so they figured. 

--Tom Berg
Aging vet in Ohio

In a message dated 11/16/2005 9:14:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes: 
> >"Besides its main gun, the M60 series tanks are equipped with a 7.62mm 
> M240
> >coaxial machine gun and 12.7mm M85 antiaircraft gun. Power is provided by a
> >Continental AVDS-1790-2C 750 hp V-12 engine