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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:23 am
by wistech
As some of you know I do a more than chase women, post like a madman and build bad arse Dale engines. Last week I stopped by a local Diesel fuel injection shop to give some tech advise on a project and boy was it a big one. It reminds me of those huge loaders at the copper mine we saw back on the Dune trip a few years ago. Aparrently the mechanic in charge of maintenence on this bad boy forgot to install the inlet piping from filters to the turbo and this loader ran all last year with no air filter. It kind of lunched the engine but it ran for several hundred hours first in the gravel pit before it started smoking like a wiseco. No biggie just swapped in a fresh rebuilt cummins for the measly cost of $33,000 . This is the biggest loader Ive ever seen around here. Check out the turbo. Its the size of a garbage can. Good for 600+hp at 1,800rpm. But that has yet to be confirmed till we get it on the dyno.LOL
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:09 am
by J. Delaney
That's not a big engine. This is a big engine! My cousin used to work for Cat. It's a V16 stationary Cat diesel used in a generator application.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:11 am
by wistech
OOHHH Thats looks like a stroker
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:33 am
by MyCannibal
wonder if its got the z400 bearing though?
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 2:40 am
by CannondaleRider
Theres a Generator engine a few towns away, WAY bigger then that.
One piston is probably about 3 foot diameter.
Maybe i'll get some pictures some day
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:22 pm
by r.porter
Here's the bottom end of a straight 10.
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:29 pm
by kdeal
Here's the bottom end of a straight 10.
Ah Porter, you ruined the surprise of my dragster motor! LOL. That's a big darn motor. How long do you think it would take Timbo to stroke that baby?
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:47 pm
by Blasterboy11
Yeh, lol. It better have the aluminum impeller too. That magnesium's no good.
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wonder if its got the z400 bearing though?
Now THIS is an engine! It must have one radical cam, lol. Hey look, its got Stage 8 head bolts too! ROFL!
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:52 pm
by wistech
Those are a bit roomier than the horror show medium duty crap I work on. As much as a piece a junk the ford powerstrokes and 444e they are paying well into my retirement fund.LOL
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:06 pm
by Mjollnir
Those are a bit roomier than the horror show medium duty crap I work on. As much as a piece a junk the ford powerstrokes and 444e they are paying well into my retirement fund.LOL
Hey John, we know what you think of the Powerstrokes, do you know what Ford did to change it for the new motor? Also, I'm wondering if you have experience with Duramaxes, and what you think of them...
Marc