Truckers, lets see your rigs!

chevota84 said:
Yeah you're right. I guess there was too much scotch between the last time I thought much about mech Cummins and now. I hate putting bad info on the interwebs.

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Not really bad info, just the MVT is not really that common, I have only seen it on the factory twin turbos and the NTCC which are Cali certified engines from back in the day.
 
I used to babysit a factory twin turbo cummins in a standby generator unit. Built in 1984 IIRC and rated at 585hp at 1800rpm. For its age I considered that thing a work of art.
 
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I'd be curious to this as well, big cams never made it over 485hp from the factory and that was on a fire pump engine.
 
Here's my 97 pete 3406E 600hp to the ground, she's got alot miles on her but she's still a great truck. ( it's a petebilt!) about 1,830,000 on her.
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Now i'm putting a new head on her, she had about a million on the old one and was pushing alot of oil at idle into my turbo, good thing we pulled the head because #6 fire ring was shot !
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Great looking petecar! What's the specs on the engine build? I know those E models don't go to 600hp factory settings lol. Welcome to Comp-d from a fellow paccar/cat lover!
 
Mr.T said:
Great looking petecar! What's the specs on the engine build? I know those E models don't go to 600hp factory settings lol. Welcome to Comp-d from a fellow paccar/cat lover!
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If it is a 15.8L E model it is a factory 600hp.
 
Ahhhhhhhhh I see. Didn't know they put the big E model in OTR trucks
 
Its a 550 not a 600, but fletchers diesel repair in Lancaster California did the $16,000 shortblock build after it broke a crank 250,000 miles ago, and he did the ecm tune and tells me the 600hp.( to the ground) I need to get it on Dyno after I get the Aftermarket manifold, cam, injectors and turbo on . keep ya posted on my inprovements.
 
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Mine is a 550hp MXS ACERT, was running a bullydog on it, but its just got the 550/1850 tune in it now
 
madmikeismad said:
How big?

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SmokinCAT said:
I'd be curious to this as well, big cams never made it over 485hp from the factory and that was on a fire pump engine.
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Well I think I may have misstated some info. I was thinking it was rated at 585hp but it was only a 350KW genset and you figure approx 35% more hp than KW so 485 might be correct. At this point I'm officially confused. LoL
 
If anymore of you guys are going to be putting a cam in an electronic single turbo cat, come here first, you can go to the cat dealer and buy a new cam outright with no core for less than what PDI wants for theirs after the core charge.
 
SmokinCAT said:
If anymore of you guys are going to be putting a cam in an electronic single turbo cat, come here first, you can go to the cat dealer and buy a new cam outright with no core for less than what PDI wants for theirs after the core charge.
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I wish I would've known this before I bought mine
 
mxz809ho said:
Its a 550 not a 600, but fletchers diesel repair in Lancaster California did the $16,000 shortblock build after it broke a crank 250,000 miles ago, and he did the ecm tune and tells me the 600hp.( to the ground) I need to get it on Dyno after I get the Aftermarket manifold, cam, injectors and turbo on . keep ya posted on my inprovements.
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How many miles did you get out of the stock engine?
 
SmokinCAT said:
If anymore of you guys are going to be putting a cam in an electronic single turbo cat, come here first, you can go to the cat dealer and buy a new cam outright with no core for less than what PDI wants for theirs after the core charge.
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X2 but don't go to a truck dealer and price it. Since its not a truck engine part it's actually cheaper direct from Cat. Also any good cam works as a core, i was really surprised when they took that piece of chit MBN cam as a core, Junkers are barely mailbox post material!
 
jfaulkner said:
X2 but don't go to a truck dealer and price it. Since its not a truck engine part it's actually cheaper direct from Cat. Also any good cam works as a core, i was really surprised when they took that piece of chit MBN cam as a core, Junkers are barely mailbox post material!
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LOL I really did LOL! Barely!
 
I didn't know they were accepting off part number cores now, was that at the Troy store John?
 
SmokinCAT said:
I didn't know they were accepting off part number cores now, was that at the Troy store John?
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Done it at Columbus and Troy, neither place has ever looked at the part number. Probably also explains why I've never seen a reman cam, all the 800hp cams are always new. Lol
 
jfaulkner said:
Done it at Columbus and Troy, neither place has ever looked at the part number. Probably also explains why I've never seen a reman cam, all the 800hp cams are always new. Lol
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Damn, I wish I knew that a couple months ago, a friend bought 1000hp cam out right and actually got it thru KW for the same exact price as cat.
 
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