Detroit Diesel
 

You can't have a Big Rig forum without some discussion of everyone's favorite diesel engine! SARCASM

I think "everyones" favorite is a bit much. The 2 strokes are by far the best at turning diesel into noise. 200 hp and 5 ft lbs of torque.[laugh]

Everyone knows Diesel engines are like Bananas, They aren't any good until they turn yellow.[coffee]

It's hard to be sarcastic while typing![laugh]

yellow nice but i still prefer a red top

Now that's a true enough statement. [yuk][yuk][yuk][laugh][laugh][laugh]

You guys are way wrong. The silver 92's made 475-500 hp and 10#'s tq. [laugh][laugh]



Yellow was the way to go until the accerts, then it was a crap shoot.



Tim

LOL. [laugh][laugh][laugh] Now that's just plain funny. [duhhh][duhhh][guitar][guitar] I never drove an 8 but our engine company was a 6V92 T/A. Wasn't all that great although it would eat up the 8V71 I drove in the truck.

anyone care to explain to me why these motors didnt make power? big turbos and blowers with twice as many power strokes as a 4 stroke.... please explain

But what sweet noise it is! [guitar]

Because of the need to scavenge the cylinder. You see the piston was coming up but the port is open quite a ways up the cylinder before it started to compress the air. They needed the blower to clear the cylinder they were not supercharged until they used a turbo. Also not much low end torque as compared to a 4 stroke, hard on fuel too.

I ran an old 12v71 in a truck that was set up way way hot. Flat land running it would do the roll but if it saw a hill it turned coward of the county. You could get passed by a wore out VW microbus on a very slight grade. But with twin straights and a 13sp you had a ride that sounded like it would pull heaven to the cross and had a sound that would wake the dead. Between this truck and a few 671s and 8v71s with straights is probably why I have to have the volume on the TV LOUD. LOL the best thing about the good ole days is they are gone.

I think you're being a bit generous on the horsepower.

And you're being a LOT generous on horsepower. The key to horse power designations in the Detroits is their series numbers; 6V92= 6 HP, 92 leaks. 8V92= 8 HP & 92 leaks, and so on and so on.

Especially when it stops! For the life of me I cannot understand why anyone who was familiar with these engines would willingly buy one, knowing that they were going to have to listen to it scream 8 to 10 hours a day, not to mention that your hands felt like you had held onto a hammer-drill all day when you were done driving. [duhhh]

Boat anchors.

chaikwa.

LOL. Having not driven one at a point early in my life I thought some of those guys had stereo headphones on since they were driving pretty nice rigs. Until I worked for an outfit that ran 8V71's. I was at Sanderson Safety the very next morning for a pair of muffs. Summer time and a tanker with twin short stacks was NOT a good thing with no AC. They sounded and ran like a hot rod on the flats but fell on their face on a hill. Would get passed by triples on Cabbage hill. [yuk][yuk]:o[redface][redface][redface][redface][redface]

My first 10 wheeler was a 61 GMC with a 401v6 gas motor ....you want to talk slow[duhhh] then I stepped in to the BIG league with my first 8v71. then I learned there was real big power to be had...hence silver8V92TA. But my BIG CAM 400 would walk all over them[coffee]

V6 GMC with huge cubic inches and nooooooo fuel mileage. But they didn't do a bad job. The younger generation will probably never know what a screamin jimmy 6 or double breasted yamaha 8v71 was really about. A/C on a "few" trucks when it worked, most had 2/60 a/c "2windows open at 60 mph". The good ole days-sure glad they are gone.