Truckers, lets see your rigs!

And I am telling you I am not talking about in theory or magical unicorn piss, that the Isx can withstand those powers. Let's call it agree to disagree. But that does look like a nice setup. What kinda power does it make? Any info on fuel and chargers
 
97rada said:
No clue where they are in the dyno and sled world. I just know where they have been in the R&D world. When testing say a 750 hp engine in R&D, it will get ran at 1000-1100 for 100hr at full load to simulate 1 million miles. I am simply stating the Isx can make the power, if people in the industry can't duplicate it, that's a lack of knowledge issue
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There is a guy that pulls in our club with an 07 (I believe) Peterbilt with an ISX (forgive me if I miss quote a year, but I know nothing about the electric Cummins engins). He claims he had his truck on PDI's dyno making 1,000 HP and 3,000 ft-lbs of torque. However the truck never seems to run right to me. I'm not sure how may RPMs he's turning (maybe 3,000) but its always bouncing off the rev limiter. He's also destroyed numerous Lype clutches because he tries to run to high of a gear. He sledum works the truck and its mostly a toy, and he's not easy on it.

He has multiple different programs, tubed ECMs and programmers that he's always messing with. The truck was supposedly on PDI's dyno trying to get the RPM thing figured out, which they never did. All of last season he had a Cummins tech following him around data logging every pull and messing with the tunes.

I'm not saying that this truck proves a ISX can make 1,000 hp or anything close to the godly yellow engines, I'm just stating what I know.

He pulls the white with purple flames Pete in this video, about 1:25.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3nyWYLJWGw
 
John when my buddy went up to Dale Francis' shops he had an ISX with an inline pump hanging on the side of it, not sure what truck it was for or if it is even in a truck yet.
 
97rada said:
And I am telling you I am not talking about in theory or magical unicorn piss, that the Isx can withstand those powers. Let's call it agree to disagree. But that does look like a nice setup. What kinda power does it make? Any info on fuel and chargers
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That engine was in the Prohibbited 2 truck of Greg Hibbits, C16 engine with 4 turbos, probably well north of 3000hp.
 
SmokinCAT said:
John when my buddy went up to Dale Francis' shops he had an ISX with an inline pump hanging on the side of it, not sure what truck it was for or if it is even in a truck yet.
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I can see doing that with the single cam 2250/2350's but not the DOHC crap. Too much BS to live at 5000RPM.

Scotts tried that with an N14 and gave up. Was told by Jerry to never take one over 750hp or so in a road truck. Guys have tried it and they run good but never run long.
 
I think one of the 755hp gen set engines with a HX60 instead of the HX82 would make a nice usable road engine.

I don't the inline being close to reliable, no one takes the time to match nozzle to pistons so burnt pistons are almost inevitable. There are some parts out there for fueling on the PT system, just got to know who to call, but I guess if your gonna drop $3K on injectors it might as well be for an electronic cat.

I talked to one of the pullers at Bowling Green about his B model, it intrigued me that he said they had to go back to factory aluminum pistons because the billets wouldn't take the heat of the factory ones.
 
Just got loaded in Franklin Ohio. Deliver in evertt MA Monday am
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97rada said:
And I am telling you I am not talking about in theory or magical unicorn piss, that the Isx can withstand those powers. Let's call it agree to disagree. But that does look like a nice setup. What kinda power does it make? Any info on fuel and chargers
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I know someone who works in R&D at the Cummins facility and he told me they fail blocks and cranks at engines 600 HP and above and he advised us to stay away from anything ISX to try to crank up to go pulling with... And a tractor company putting the 570 & 620 HP 15L QSX is failing multiple cranks and blocks before production and is not letting customers pre-order them due to the failures and finger pointing going on between them and Cummins... I'm far from impressed even though I was really exited for the bigger litre and common rail system.
 
What do you mean bigger liter? And that engine runs all day long at 650 in road trucks in Australia.
 
97rada said:
What do you mean bigger liter? And that engine runs all day long at 650 in road trucks in Australia.
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And they come apart, info from a mechanic in New Zealand. Keep in mind the info you may get from someone at Cummins is different from someone using them in the real world. Friend talked to an engineer at Cummins about emissions system failures. He said they don't have many emissions equipment warranty claims.......... Cat warranty guy told me they don't reuse liners and Pistons........... They also claim they don't have head gasket issues on the Acerts........... They sure like to drink the company supplied Kool-Aid.

I think he's referring to them going from the ISX12 to the 15L
 
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I work for cummins. Only reason I even spoke on the subject. Not a kol-aid kinda guy. Just a real world experience. To each there own
 
Yellow Jacket said:
'm far from impressed even though I was really exited for the bigger litre and common rail system.
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I agree, if they would live there would be a 2250 with a Bosch stand-alone on it doing 5k RPM at a track near you. But I'm not holding my breath.
 
When i start seeing ISX engines making it over a million miles untouched in the field of work I used to be in, then I'll consider them an option, pulling 100k+ all the time shows you who knows how to make an engine last and EVERY truck I've seen with an ISX has gone down before 800k. Most of the tier 4 engines are only going 3-400k before needing an inframe. The guys running older cats are laughing at the morons that bought the new trucks so they could have a warranty.....with a Cummins under the hood you NEED a warranty.
 
Mr.T said:
When i start seeing ISX engines making it over a million miles untouched in the field of work I used to be in, then I'll consider them an option, pulling 100k+ all the time shows you who knows how to make an engine last and EVERY truck I've seen with an ISX has gone down before 800k. Most of the tier 4 engines are only going 3-400k before needing an inframe. The guys running older cats are laughing at the morons that bought the new trucks so they could have a warranty.....with a Cummins under the hood you NEED a warranty.
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The key to ISX life is bypass emissions and change the damn oil. 10k oil change guys always have perfect bearings, 30k oil change guys need cams and/or rockers at overhaul time.
 
Buddy just outframed his ISX in October because he was getting married been tuned with PDI stage 1 kit since 500k when the vgt turbo let loose. Outlaws 90-100klbs all the time and goes 20k on oil. Nothing was wrong with the original head injectors or cam but he replaced them anyway for funsies. Another buddy has a 2012 ISX at 575hp with 300k ish miles never been in the shop for warranty til last week when a DPF pressure sensor failed. You can't tell me ISX's are all bad.
 
jfaulkner said:
The key to ISX life is bypass emissions and change the damn oil. 10k oil change guys always have perfect bearings, 30k oil change guys need cams and/or rockers at overhaul time.
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that's so true. I have seen both engines and if you change the oil you are so right.
 
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