Page 26: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (August 1983)
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Heavy Head Exhaust
Valve
Laser Hardened port area of Cylinder Liner
Pre-Stressed Stainless
Steel Top Ring With -
Chrome Face and Sides
Fire Ring Piston (turbo charged engine; 14.5:1 compression ratio) 16.0:1 Compression
Ratio (turbocharged engine)
Redesigned Rocking
Piston Pin Increasing -
Load Capacity by 50%
Nickel-Plated Lower
Liner Insert
Fluorocarbon Lower
Liner Seals
Model F Crankcase
The most fuel-efficient Diesel engine
The newest 645 marine Diesel from General Motors' Electro-
Motive Division did not appear overnight. Emphatically not.
It was developed after years of painstaking research and innova- tive technological improvements because of our absolute determina- tion, in the face of spiraling fuel costs, to reduce fuel consumption in our Diesel engines.
And now it's here. An engine that is some 2.5% more fuel efficient than our 645 EB. Which was 1.5% more fuel efficient than our 645 EA. Which