Posted on 11/08/2023 7:29:10 AM PST by Red Badger
DIESEL kNoCk!..................
Well, cool just for the novelty of it. One never knew that such a thing existed. Obviously it would never make it past the emissions regulations today, which makes it so much even more cooler.
One will watch later.
Will they put it back to work? Put it in a museum? Wreck it in an action movie?
Because of course his name is "Bruce".
If it was "Michael", that would cause a little confusion.
Good on someone for making it run again.
WD-40....Is there anything it can’t do?.....................
My dad used to work on a person’s 12 cylinder jaguar - the thing was a beast
I bet it wasn’t a 852 cubic inch beast!...............
Detroit Diesel .. turning diesel fuel into noise. Glorious delicious noise!
Is the performance and longevity of newer engines better? Yes, but how many "improvements" that have added costs such as improved fuel economy, emissions control, and safety have been driven by government mandate instead of market demand? What is the cumulative effect of such mandated market inefficiency over just about every product produced and sold? How is this different in the end from a planned, Soviet-style economy?
Interesting. I didn’t realize these big diesel engines were 2-stroke.
I don’t remember, but I do remember going along with him while taking the car out to “test drive it” after working on it, and letting it rip down the road lol
I got an old Honda 750-4 going by pouring Mystery Oil into all four cylinders and putting in a new battery.
VROOM!
I salvaged it out of my voice teacher’s back yard where it had sat for decades, obtained a Salvage Title, and got to work.
Cleaned up, it sold for $500.00.
Those were the days, my friend. I LOVE ICEs!
I worked on a job for a customer in Portland OR several years ago. It was a river dredge with 4 ea. 6-110 Detroit engines driving a sand and gravel pump in the Willamette river. The dredge crew partially disassembled and delivered them to us. We rebuilt all 4 and test-ran each one in the shop before sending them back out to the barge. It was the biggest hunk of iron I’ve ever rebuilt and tuned. They were configured as a quad with 1 LH blower with RH rotation , 1 RH blower with RH rotation, 1 RH blower with LH rotation, 1 LH blower with LH rotation. We took much time in marking all components. It would be extremely easy to mix up the parts otherwise.
“My dad used to work on a person’s 12 cylinder jaguar - the thing was a beast”
Less than 400 hp is not a beast. Base Mustang GT is now 480.
it was to a little kid who rode around in family cars till then—
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