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VEHICLES => TRACTORS/MOWERS/HEAVY EQUIPMENT => Topic started by: jabberwoki on March 04, 2021, 07:41:55 PM

Title: Boy is this was just a bit cheaper
Post by: jabberwoki on March 04, 2021, 07:41:55 PM

I`d have it in the shop just for giggles.


https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/hvo/d/centralia-detroit-diesel-16v-engine/7285468314.html

Title: Re: Boy is this was just a bit cheaper
Post by: highland512 on March 05, 2021, 07:33:58 AM

Put one of them in something rat rod'ish and call it slightly offensive.

It would be offensive to many peoples touch, sight, smell, and especially sound...................maybe even taste.  :D

Title: Re: Boy is this was just a bit cheaper
Post by: skfarmer on March 05, 2021, 08:31:38 AM

Awesome rat rod powerplant.  Don't even clean it up. The rattier the better.

Title: Re: Boy is this was just a bit cheaper
Post by: DeadNutz on March 05, 2021, 08:43:10 AM

Back in the 70's those engines were in demand. The dive boat we mainly used in the mid 70's had 2 of those monsters in it when the owner bought it. He traded those engines to a guy who gave him 2 new Cummins in exchange. When he bought the 58' boat it was a hydrofoil and he removed the foils and even with the Cummins we made the 26 miles to Catalina Island in an hour.

Those engines look like parts machines only.

Title: Re: Boy is this was just a bit cheaper
Post by: Rusty on March 05, 2021, 04:12:58 PM

Ran when parked?   









 :08:   :P   :NIGHT_1:  We'll be here all week.

Title: Re: Boy is this was just a bit cheaper
Post by: oldnslo on March 05, 2021, 05:19:11 PM

I was going to make a snarky comment about the motor still being in a Greyhound Scenicruiser in one of the pics, but quickly found out that the powerplant was not in that bus.

Regardless, here's a mild attempt at derailing the thread and offering a behind the scenes look at that iconic bus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PD-4501_Scenicruiser

and

Now, back to your regular scheduled broadcast.  ;)

Title: Re: Boy is this was just a bit cheaper
Post by: DeadNutz on March 05, 2021, 06:17:47 PM

I got to drive one of those Scenicruiser beauties home from a bar for a friend one night.

Title: Re: Boy is this was just a bit cheaper
Post by: jabberwoki on March 05, 2021, 08:03:24 PM

That's my dream hot rod RV.
Except id have a 16v92tt powering it with big arse pipes out the back.

Title: Re: Boy is this was just a bit cheaper
Post by: oldnslo on March 05, 2021, 08:36:27 PM

Plenty of YT vids out there on those machines. Undergoing reconstruction, pulling motors, etc. Fascinating.

Title: Re: Boy is this was just a bit cheaper
Post by: slip knot on March 07, 2021, 11:12:56 AM

When I worked the petrochems, the fire protection system ran a couple of V16 DD. We ran these things monthly to exercise them. nothing like firing one of those up and running it WOT. :dance: It takes your breath away to be in the same building with it. Quite impressive to see it pushing a 12in stream of water 150ft out into the emergency basin.

we had built a new process building and they wanted to test the fire control system. 3-4 floors of open structures. they had people with buckets scattered thruout the buildings to check volume delivery. When we fired that DD up the whole building disappeared in a rain storm. I was damned impressed.   :bravo_2:

Title: Re: Boy is this was just a bit cheaper
Post by: highland512 on March 08, 2021, 07:54:12 AM

Fire suppression test are my favorite  >:D. Personally I enjoy a foam test.

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