History Main / EnormousEngine

* ''Literature/TheSunEater'': Dorayaica's worldship is truly planet-sized, unlike most other Cielcin worldships which are carved out of asteroids and comets. So his world's hip has continent-sized antimatter engines. This is actually grave threat for humanity, as the sheer size of the engines make these ships much faster in FTL speeds than human ships despite [[HumanityIsAdvanced humans far more advanced technologically]].

** The Engine in question is the Rolls Royce Spey, used in the British variation of the F-4 Phantom. Note that the Phantom's nickname is "The triumph of thrust over aerodynamics." Yeah, they took the engines from a Jet Fighter that's already known for solving it's Aerodynamic problems with brute engine power and attached them to a car. While yes, the Spey is an inferior engine to the original Phantom's General Electric J79, it's still incredibly overkill for a car.

* The Soviet BT series of light tanks used the V2, a 38.8L diseel V12 delivering 500hp and approximately a fucktonne of torque. This 14t light tank had an engine which made 50t heavy tanks years later quite mobile. Suffice to say the BT could move.

* As a publicity stunt, diesel engine manufacturer Cummins put a 3,500hp engine into, well more accurately ''onto'' an [[http://blog.caranddriver.com/cummins-puts-a-3500-hp-engine-in-on-a-mini/ original Mini.]]

* Snot Rod (an orange drag racer) from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' has a large engine sticking out from underneath his hood.

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' / ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' has had a few over the years, typically when the CombiningMecha are [[CoolCar Cool Cars]]. The most prominent example would be [[Series/EngineSentaiGoonger Speedor]] / [[Series/PowerRangersRPM the Eagle Racer]], whose big giant engine block becomes ''the head of the robot''.

* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' arcade game allows you to upgrade your car with improved engine power which has the side effect of installing a larger engine (even on tuner cars). The ''Drift'' update takes this even further.

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* The jet engine deployed by the [[CoolCar Gadgetmobile]] in both the ''[[Film/InspectorGadget Inspector]] [[Film/InspectorGadget2 Gadget]]'' films provides the page image.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' introduces two sentient engine-like Pokemon, Varoom and its evolved form Revavroom especially. Revavroom is used by all five leaders of Team Star on their [[CoolSidecar starmobiles]].

* The jet engine deployed by the [[CoolCar Gadgetmobile]] in the ''Film/InspectorGadget'' films provides the page image.

** The Big Boy gets a special mention: it makes over 6000 horsepower and is essentially one giant external combustion engine.

* The fusion engines of the ''[[Literature/GreatShip Greatship]]'' - a [[PlanetSpaceShip ship the size of Jupiter]] - are large enough to engulf the Earth. [[UpToEleven It has fourteen of them]]. The interior of the Greatship is full of hundreds of [[HollowWorld liquid hydrogen fuel tanks large enough to fit entire worlds]].

* And then there is [[http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/brutus Brutus,]] the concept of a newly-created early-20th-century-style high-speed racecar taken UpToEleven. It is powered by a UsefulNotes/WorldWarI BMW V12 aircraft engine almost twice the displacement of a Rolls-Royce Merlin, combined with a chain transmission made in 1907. 750bhp may not sound like much from such a huge engine, but they're enough to accelerate a car on a more than 100-year-old tech level and classic narrow diagonal tires with no front wheel brakes beyond 120mph. Needless to say that it drew the attention of a certain [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJn7LHE83cc Jeremy Clarkson]].

*** There are pictures of a downright ludicrous Boss Hoss floating around the Web. It's fitted with a pair (!) of 6-71 blowers [[UpToEleven and]] [[NitroBoost NOS]].

** The proposed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket) Sea Dragon]] rocket would take this UpToEleven. If built, it would have been nearly half again the height of a Saturn V, over thrice as wide, had only one massive engine (most large rockets have multiple), and had to be launched from the sea, as it would destroy any launch pad it was placed on. Small-scale tests of this sea-launch technique were successful, but it was never built after it was determined that [[AwesomeButImpractical there weren't enough payloads that needed something that powerful]].

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* ''Holgi - Räum das Feld, Mann!'' is the comic answer to ''ComicBook/{{Werner}}'' requested by Brösel's former "manager" Holgi, and it also contains a story that's the answer to the "Metülisator": Holgi yoinks a Rolls-Royce jet engine from a recently crash-landed airliner and bolts it to the roof of his 1972 Porsche 911 S. If that other comic character can have a car with an aircraft engine, Holgi wants one, too, and besides, he has always wanted to own a Rolls-Royce. The result: As Holgi opens the throttle for the first test drive, the engine rips the roof off the Porsche.

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* Several epic examples appear in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''; the Heroes' War Rig has two large supercharged V8s up front with a quoted output of 2000hp, The Gigahorse has one huge twin-turbocharged engine.

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* ''Literature/MortalEngines'': the engines required to get a Traction City moving are so huge that it takes the remains of entire ''towns'' to fuel them.

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* The engine powering Figaro Castle in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' is small compared to the castle, but the characters dwarf in comparison (and they even have a boss battle on top of it).

* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' arcade game allows you to upgrade your car with improved engine power which has the side effect of installing a larger engine (even on tuner cars). The ''Drift'' update takes this even further.
* Both versions of the [[CoolShip Normandy]] from ''Franchise/MassEffect'' contain engines that are stupid big for the size of the ship. Called the "Tantalus Drive Core" it not only allows the Normandy to be very fast for its class, but also acts as a ReactionlessDrive and lets the ship fly without visible emissions for a short time, [[StealthInSpace making it the stealthiest ship in the known galaxy]].

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