1979 Powerwagon

79powerwagon

79powerwagon

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Thought I'd share my beater truck.

It's a 79 W150 that I installed a 93 VE engine and 518 into, 3/4 ton axles. Then converted it to a "Warlock" stepside.

I daily drive it and have a lot of fun :)

powerwagon donut - YouTube
 

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I like your beater!



Wait... that sounds weird.


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Thanks guys.

The VE, typical stuff, power screw maxed, ground pin, piston pump modded for 18 psi, 6x13 sac injectors, HE351CW

Engine has ~310k on it never been opened up. I put the last 10k on it.

Have yet to do a gsk and timing spacer, was waiting to regasket the head and do valve springs but those parts ended up going in my 2001.
 
Anyone have opinions on a small twin setup for a ve? HE351CW and?


I have two Caterpillar C9 turbos. One is a 66 with Variable vanes,1.24 a/r, can't find much info on it and other is a S310G (Believe it's a 64/71 and 1.1 a/r exhaust housing) Both T4 foot.

Truck weighs about 5700 lbs. Trying to use what I have to make it work, i just know it needs more air.. I'm not after the perfect hp number or track time.
 
79powerwagon said:
Anyone have opinions on a small twin setup for a ve? HE351CW and?


I have two Caterpillar C9 turbos. One is a 66 with Variable vanes,1.24 a/r, can't find much info on it and other is a S310G (Believe it's a 64/71 and 1.1 a/r exhaust housing) Both T4 foot.

Truck weighs about 5700 lbs. Trying to use what I have to make it work, i just know it needs more air.. I'm not after the perfect hp number or track time.
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Those are fairly new C9's that take those turbos. How did you end up with those?
 
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The vgt I bought off of eBay for next to nothing. Think it's from a Challenger tractor.

S310G bad core from an excavator, salvageable imo
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If you don't use them, it might be worth calling your local Cat dealer to see if either of them are on the reman. seed list. They might be worth a couple bucks.
 
Not familiar with seed list? Cat pay out for certain cores?

If I remember right last time I looked up the price on SIS for the VGT it was around $4k new.

I had made an adapter for it to run as a single but I don't know if the VE will push it
 
I've been running an S310 CAT 64/71 for a while. Those are from C9 acert engines.

The C9.3 turbo, if it's what I think, only creates back pressure to force exhaust gas to flow through the EGR system. The turbine housing is relatively useless.
I have one from a 15 or 18 liter that I haven't done anything with. It's the reverse function of how a normal housing is intended to function. I think they are borg-warners

If it's from a C9 Acert, then it should be a garret vgt. Iirc

CAT doesn't buy cores. You can poke around in TMI and ID a lot of cats turbos.


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Thanks for the info!

How does that s310 run?

Few photos of the VGT -

P/N 304-2690
 

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GTB4088V garret according to TMI.
I've had one of those engines in the shop in 10 years.

I'm guessing my CAT 64 is pushing 450hp. I ran an Aurora 64/71 and did 499.5 at the wheels without a lot of smoke. 575hp calculated.

The CAT has a used, cracked S300 style turbine housing, runs about the same boost, but the torque/boost curve is different due to the housing.

I would guess it could support a smokey 650hp.

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Thank you again, that's the most info I've seen for this turbo.

This S310 I have has a water cooled center, Happen to know if a s300 turbine housing will fit that? Internals swap?
 
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