The Power of Diesel: Inside the Engine | Shell Historical Film Archive

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[@jamesportrais3946]

OK - where do I sign? 😅 More seriously, thanks for the upload lot of useful info.

[@AprezaRenaldy]

CATL = inside lithium battry cell.

[@nhtp342501]

it's amazing

[@renatoamaral2029]

Excellent documentary, A+ grade, never gets old, high quality. ❤

[@Alaa_aboud1985]

I feel like these old movies are taking my mind off the distraction of social media.

[@mikeh2006]

Watching proper videos like this, new or old, is better for your mind than scrolling. Which I am guilty of.

[@franktechmaniac7488]

They had no idea what happened 15 years later, when lightweight, turbocharged diesel engines reached specific power outputs of top notch sports cars in the old days.

[@carolinetv5112]

Thanks in the main .To Fiat's.invention of the Modern common rail system technology.

[@David-yy7lb]

Gotta love the 70's back ground music👍🏿

[@memeguyTM]

Yeah it's jamming

[@justingray3456]

Makes me think of Death Wish with Charles Bronson.

[@ProctorsGamble]

Boom chicka wow wow!

[@locojohn6637]

LUV IT too… or, should I say, …”dig it mon”!

[@anthonyxuereb792]

Thank you Rudolph sir.

[@-DC-]

The Engine that Powers the World ❤️

[@julesviolin]

And poisons it.⚠️ OK this is not very scientific but it proves a point. I dare you to stick your snout at the tail pipe of a 10 year old diesel car exhaust. (cat fitted) I promise you you will choke and find it hard to breath. Try the same at tail pipe of a 10 yr old Petrol car and you'll find you are able to breath fairly ok. That's why diesel's days are numbered

[@uecmitsuimarinedieselengin873]

As a graduate student who is on the way to pursuing an engineer's position in low speed marine diesel companies, I would say this should be the best recording of the old diesels especially the main engines which I am fascinated by. I guess the main engines showed here might be: unknown MAN or Bergen/pielstick PC-4/Doxford opposite piston 56J series/Unknown B&W low speed and B&W K-GF series?

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

I used to run a Crossley HRL 4 a two stoke cross flow super-scavenged direct reversing marine engine on m.v. Wincham. 45 - 300 rpm, it sipped fuel and ran for sixty years on its original bearings. Also a Mirrlees Blackstone 16 generator set. So reliable and very efficient. I do like the Doxford but they were a special beast and not many know how to run them now.

[@Silent_Chair]

There was Scania too, bro

[@RobsonRoverRepair]

*1.9 PD has entered the chat*

[@23hublock1]

My 1.9 AWX is bulletproof, fantastic engine.

[@fearone9694]

And chewed through several camshafts..

[@23hublock1]

@@fearone9694 only if poorly maintained and with wrong grade oil

[@jhoncho4x4]

I'm glad I found this channel. Thank you for creating the channel, converting, and sharing these old films. I have converted from old formats myself; it is difficult to get good results. These old films look great. I will watch the other vintage videos as they pop up.

[@kashan9002]

Very knowledgeable❤

[@zOiNhUh]

So-called environmentalists try to phase Diesel engines out, but it's still the most important powerplant

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

When optimised for constant power and load large diesels are incredibly efficient, just don't put them in car's that is a very bad idea.

[@zOiNhUh]

An uncle of mine once bought an early Suzuki Vitara with a shot engine, repowered it with an old Volkswagen 1.6D and its mileage was much better than with the stock engine.

[@user-zu6qn9ux9n]

@@WOFFY-qc9tewhy? My diesel car does 60mpg.

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

@@user-zu6qn9ux9n 60 mpg is faily good but a marine diesel can move more than a 1000 Tones one mile on one gallon. Your scale of efficiency is a comparison with a Petrol engine. The particulate emissions from a car diesel engine under variable loads is rather poor. An optimised stationary diesel engine is very efficient.

[@SDav21]

​@@WOFFY-qc9te 6 cylinder diesels used in many German cars and even by Mazda now are amazing. So fuel efficient and so smooth with boat loads of torque. Especially great when used in SUVs because the fuel usage is so much less than it's equivalent petrol powered unit. They also tow more effortlessly than a petrol engine which needs much more revs to move the same amount.

[@The-Sea-Dragon-1977]

I loved this, started my career at sea on low speed diesels. 40000 shp is reaching the limit of their size? Now the biggest are 120000 shp. Same technology, just refined.

[@TheCarGuru]

Love diesels. We need more diesel passenger cars in the US.

[@BrianNC81]

Agree, I'm trying to keep my old BMW 335d on the road as long as possible. No car offers the power, fuel economy, and range, on the road today. With tuning and downpipe it's sitting at 365 wheel hp/595 torque and still gets 39mpg on the highway Blast to drive.

[@newua1252]

@@BrianNC81 are there any problems with the fuel system or filter? im thinking about a diesel bmw in illinois

[@powerje75]

BMW 6cyl diesels are the best in the world. Incredible engines.

[@h0mo3rectus69]

Diesels are good if you drive a lot of on the highway, but city driving is bad for modern diesels with dpf

[@sabbath7081]

​@@h0mo3rectus69thank the EPA for that.

[@sloasadney8066]

Government should stop interfering and allow companies to work on how to make diesel engine better

[@diogoforce]

I love old video!!

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

I ❤ only the almighty Allah.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

1973CE

[@1sonyzz]

and love run away diesel trucks

[@ronch550]

My family has had many diesel- powered vans and SUVs over the years from Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Isuzu, Ford and Chevrolet. Notably, the 2.2L turbodiesel in my Ford Everest (2017) is by far the most refined. It's quiet and almost sounds like a normal petrol engine and doesn't sound brutish.

[@TheCRTman]

Very cool to see 1970's NVH testing on engines and MAN buses. The old DAQ and data points is fascinating. I work with NVH testing on electric vehicles today.

[@amabdiyus111]

As an amateur engineer I salute whoever uploaded this🫡

[@davidrmcmahon]

I miss the low end torque of a Diesel. Looking at one tomorrow.

[@mickl8212]

I never got rid of mine, Honda 2.2 iDTEC Civic. Really nice motor and very refined for a diesel.

[@amgjens]

Diesel engine is a beautiful thing that we must preserve!!!🙂

[@willc5512]

It is! Just dont let one get in front of me on a hill!

[@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20]

Yes, true endangered species!

[@ronanrogers4127]

Great film…and ~50 years on diesel remains the workhorse

[@langowski007]

Where are the flashes? Galloping montage of scenes? CGI effects full of oversaturated colors? Engine destruction tests? Aha... it's the 70s, there was no need to hurry... A very nice educational film. I'm saving it :)

[@zdenekkindl2778]

What I remember about 70 are miniskirts…Beatles, cheap beer, youth and no internet.

[@aygwm]

The modern world is impossible without diesel.

[@erwin643]

- 1990 1st Gen Dodge Cummins, 4-wheel disc brakes, ABS delete, A518 transmission w/overdrive, Banks Intercooler (Yes, believe it or not, they made factory-fit ones back then for the Dodge Cummins). Winning!

[@SukhdevSingh-ge5rj]

Great 😃😃👍👍 video 😊😊 from Malaysia 🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾🇲🇾

[@SF-rs3xm]

Diesels forever! TDI

[@rahmatshazi883]

One of the most prolific research works was carried out to better understand how we can computationally model the autoignition of diesel. Its till used till today. Its called the Shell Model.

[@davidscottnoble303]

thank you Shell for providiing us with economical vehicles turning fossel fuels into energy

[@appalachiahiker853]

i love diesel. it will always be the engine of my car

[@JonathanJ.W]

If I’m not mistaken, Great Britain adopted the diesel-engine in the 1970’s; mainly because the French government offered us, very competitively-priced, diesel fuel.

[@hristohetimov2728]

The 🥖🍟 🍷 French ...opted for ⛽ diesel 🚗🚗🚗, because they started employing Nuclear ☢️ Power Plants and also Natural gas for 💡⚡... When 🛢️ is imported u have to put the diesel ⛽ 🚗 to use

[@renatoamaral2029]

Regards from Sao Paulo, Brazil. 😊

[@Dave-st7yu]

Love diesels ❤️❤️

[@stephenasbridge878]

2024 and driving a diesel Toyota Hilux. Thank you to all the engineers and designers who have continually improved on diesels over the decades.

[@rajTrondhjem10]

Amazing! Love diesels..

[@SandiShila]

Mr. Rudolph is a real GOAT

[@renatoamaral2029]

Excellent video, very instructive even now in 2024. 😊❤

[@andrewsoldan6050]

diesel all the way, will never sell my VW TDI

[@meersau5690]

The Diesel engine makes the world go round!

[@douro20]

I believe Rootes-Lister was the only company to successfully commercialise an opposed-piston 2-stroke diesel for road use. There were several other companies which developed engines with a very similar design, including Auto Diesel in the US, but none were as successful.

[@jamesbrett6518]

Commer TS3? As used in the Ecurie Ecosse transporter

[@sonykroket]

I love Shell.................

[@glennO-e9r]

I love EGR’s, DPF’s and SCR’s…

[@maciejwisniewski760]

Fragmenty tego filmu zostaly użyte w polskim programie popularnonaukowym "Sonda" z lat 80-tych.

[@theemekanix]

I drive a 1978 Mercedes 300D. 30 mpgs. now thats GREEN

[@sabbath7081]

Diesel engines are King, I've driven a diesel vehicle for 22 years, the same diesel vehicle, 216,000 MI on it.

[@yugoslavas1635]

It would be very good if Toyota Motor Corporation would return its 2.0; 2.2 D-4D diesel engines for Corolla, Avensis, Auris, Yaris, RAV4.

[@SDav21]

They were nice but I don't think Toyota had the experience of the European carmakers who's diesels were more powerful and more reliable. My cousin had a Corolla 2.0 d4d and it transformed the car though. It drove much nicer than the slow and sluggish petrol powered versions and used 4.2 litres per 100kms on the highway. It was so nice.

[@georgegeorgakopoulos5956]

Taxi drivers in Athens with Avensis Mk1,not D4D,1500000kms tight city driving a common thing

[@zdenekkindl2778]

Ask Brussel…!

[@QuercusQuest]

Thank you

[@MikeXavier-s3o]

we love diesel ! ❤

[@TavernierTube]

Without diesel engines there is no civilisation.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Im going to make a Diesel 2 stroke opposed piston with loop scavenging superbike!

[@DomnuGoe]

I'll buy it

[@jhoncho4x4]

Raise the compression on a standard 2 stroke dirt bike engine, add an injection system, and crank driven blower for scavenging. Opposed cylinders would be unnecessary complications. Air Cooled 4 stroke radial airplanes engines used in WW2 tanks were converted to 4 stroke diesel by cat for lend-lease sales. The Caterpillar conversion raised the compression and added a mechanical fuel injection system. Air Cooled 3hp horizontal shaft Chinese diesel engines are cheap and great size for a small motorbike or small garden tractors with their gear reduction transmission and no mower deck.

[@fidelcatsro6948]

@@jhoncho4x4 opposed piston engines should make a comeback i see so much potential in it..modern manufacturers arent bothered about them anymore!

[@fidelcatsro6948]

@@DomnuGoe imagine a 500cc 2 stroke opposed piston in a 250cc frame, 100hp under 180kg weight!

[@TonyLoechte]

You’re too late 😂

[@haralamc]

The good old days

Basically saying they run for hundreds of thousands of miles is an understatement 😮😊😅

[@timkis64]

i guess with a 2 foot stroke, rod angle scuffing would take its toll on the pistons & cylinders.hence all the flexable joints to eliminate it.

[@JijoMojo]

Can someone teleport me along with my current diesel car to the past? I want to live in those times as shown in this film.

[@brendancollins1402]

What band did the sound track? Dark jazz...love it.

[@brenthill3241]

It's still the same today with large ship engines at over fifty percent efficiency and one hundred thousand horsepower.

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

SHELL

[@yunuscan3849]

YEAH

[@BIBIWCICC]

Will Shell be clearing up its platforms that have been abandoned in the North sea?

[@alexgoldstein7997]

No.

[@RobsonRoverRepair]

Hopefully not so it keeps you triggered

[@DPoner]

I want a 2024 TDI car in the USA!!!!!!

[@zdenekkindl2778]

You missed your boat, dreamer. When VW offered it to you to purchase you bought muscle car. Than you got tough on VW so they retreated and Mercedes pulled the plug on diesels as well. Congratulation, dude!

[@fishinmalarkey9830]

Well it's 12/2024 and I've just rebuilt an 08 PD140 golf now it's about 185hp and 360nm reliably with a mpg of upto 50/60when the wife drives it.. Keep diesel alive 🙌 🙏 ❤

[@stanleybest8833]

I have a Sichuan Sifa MB168F 3 horsepower diesel. It's mounted on plate aluminum, not steel. The 20 MM crankshaft has a 1 inch adapter sleeve and it holds a 7 inch pulley for a car alternator. Straight out of the crate, the throttle restrictor bolt was turned 5 revs in to reduce the maximum speed. It runs on clean pump diesel and 15W40 oil. The oil consumption is a bit high. It has a break in period. These motors should be on every block.

[@DPoner]

Why aluminum?

[@stanleybest8833]

@@DPoner A thick aluminum plate is rigid and won't corrode the lugs. When you use steel, you cheat and use flexible too thin metal. It will keep eroding the bottom and it's noisy.

[@johnnytorres416]

I love a diesel engine if you look at the D5 Volvo the co2 emetion and consumption per Km car manufacturers should do more on diesel

[@mickl8212]

They've gone away from that and gone with the mythical green agenda.

[@leenevin8451]

Around town it’s terrible for your lungs

[@MrD3000]

Diesel engines rule.

[@zdenekkindl2778]

In my garage, yes.

[@joaoherbert3888]

I ❤Diesel.

[@bellanorbert23]

I''m proud to drive my diesel :)

[@monkmodemalik8225]

what’s the tune at 14:25?

[@Edwinbraun20]

I love diesel. I wish there were a nice little diesel engine I could built motorized longboard with. One liter of good diesel and the range would be very good 👍🏻

[@NormanHughesdix]

Turbodiesel is the way to go!!

[@garywinterbottom]

For all the bad press diesel gets today we will still need them for a good few years yet as electric hasnt got the torque. 😊

[@thromboid]

Don't know about that - consider diesel-electric locomotives, or the Edison Motors trucks. Gobs of torque! 😊

[@zenshy2139]

Electric motors have maximum torque from 0 rpm. They are better than diesels in regards of torque

[@memac4175]

​@@zenshy2139However, storing and producing electrical energy on a large scale is a huge challenge that the stupid press can’t understand (since it has no brain to judge for itself) 😂😂😂"

[@wopspice]

You're very incorrect about that. Most modern ships have moved from diesel propulsion to electric using diesel and LPG generators, similar to what trains have been using for decades. These are the most demanding scenarios for engines and electric is the better choice for the motor.

[@danielkiss7003]

​@@zenshy2139 Depends For efforless high speed crusing, diesel is still better Top speed on some of these electric cars are so low The new renault 5 is limited to 130 kph for example

[@dadgarage7966]

I was driving behind a presumably deleted and excessively tuned X5 diesel today. It smelled really acrid.

[@Elcicikos]

I was driving behind a new petrol Toyota. It smelled of......oil. Nothing pleasant.

[@RobsonRoverRepair]

Guaranteed blocked dpf and egr, the smell is actually putrid biodiesel content unable to reburn through it's cycles. Diesel pre 7% biodiesel content with sulphur etc in the modern engines would last forever. Biodiesel mix in common rail with the emissions systems is basically collestrol blocked arteries.

[@dadgarage7966]

@RobsonRoverRepair It was straight piped and putting out plenty of smoke. The driver was flooring it stop light to stop light to show others he's the alpha.

[@TheHtchtc]

😅😅😅❤❤❤ hello Kay in your video about 25 minutes in your see your left landing gear coming down it Sutters when it comes down like it's stuck coming down your need to fix it ❤❤❤

[@timfagan816]

You commented on the wrong video 😂😂😂

[@joelhedman8367]

7:00 is benicio del Toro in this film?

[@numbereightyseven]

7:40 - "mineral wall matting". Asbestos perhaps.

[@soimoi535]

Lol

[@stevendemunster]

Diesel engine is the best!

[@nopainnogain7358]

Vin diesel approved , best engines fór hard work. Life

[@sommernachtsommernacht8175]

Golf 1 Diesel ex- Deutsche Bundespost, ginstergelb. 50ps. Power mit Vibration in einer qualitativ grauenhaften Karosserie. Lief immer. 5 ltr. Realverbrauch. Gute Elastizität, wirklich gut .

[@satish8299]

Please Shell more diesel cars and diesel trucks and mobile cranes. And could you please lower the price at the roads in Netherlands, Shell has no shame to have 30% higher prices then Total Services and Esso.

[@ricepony33]

I miss my 240D

[@Tony-vr1xq]

I had no idea Robert De Niro made balanced crank shafts before becoming an actor 🤯

[@alltheacestarot2364]

well ye learn something new every day neither did i lol

[@Sempaksemrawutofficial]

I love Turbo Diesel engines. They’re more useful in my SUV and I love SUV. Too bad it seems this will be my last Turbo Diesel SUV as it is phased out

[@23hublock1]

1.9 AWX for the win.

[@thehighandgiddymast]

The IC engine's efficiency is only 40% even today, can we cotinue using them in this luxurious fashion?

[@flexairz]

Yes.

[@albert9784]

Why there's no Shell V power adapted to 95 & only V power for Diesel & High octane 98

[@h0mo3rectus69]

You can put 98 in any Petrol car

[@mikewatt8706]

my old merc runs on just about any oil fuel. i can dump filtered cooking oil in. home heating oil. waste oil. i rarely go to a fuel station

[@receptayyip1410]

They don't build it like this anymore. 😢

[@leroyybrown]

Oh so retro-1973

[@bobdebouwer7835]

Yeah show us the 1959 Opel P1

[@castelaronly]

EL MOTOR DIESEL LO MEJOR

[@billbonu1639]

Play that funky music....

[@Singh.A.u]

Electric vehicles are not practical . Petrol and diesel vehicles ❤ 🤗

[@lot6129]

SHELL equals DAWSON!!

[@joãoAlberto-k9x]

Who is DAWSON?

[@erickvasconcelosdiasiii]

Está Com A Verdade Concordemos

[@michaelfoort2592]

Why so called"environmentalists"? Dont get why diesel is disconnected from environmental harm.

[@JwalMart07]

Wish diesels cars were more popular in the USA. Thanks GM 😒

[@Galo1908mg]

I had a leasbian teacher back in the 80s who said the same

[@hotenenko]

What "PAA" is he talking about?

[@Direct.injection212]

We need a diesel-electric hybrid car.

[@georgegeorgakopoulos5956]

As long as there will exist plants ,there will be diesel engine

[@TESTA-CC]

Oil For The Win🛢️🛢️ EVs For The Bin 🚮🚮

[@ChristopherofEngland]

Isn't the mineral wool surrounding the bus engine asbestos?

[@erickvasconcelosdiasiii]

Está Tudo Bem Nós Concordemos

[@HicVenariHicSalta]

Diesel was, is and becomes the Engine of the Economy and Progress. Fullstop.

[@EI6DP]

I ofttimes wonder why car diesel are not two stroke.