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Chrisd91 said:
So as long as it is not a DPF motor it is nothing to worry about? I'd never really heard much good about newer cat motors
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People talk a lot of chit about Acert engines, but realistically they're not a bad powerplant. Typically they don't last as long between majors as the older ones (2WS, 5EK, 1LW, 6NZ, etc..) because of the garbage tuning, egr, and the high compression ratio combined with high boost levels, but as long as its a good, solid truck and the engine has good history I see no reason to stay away from them. But I'm a big acert fan so I may be a little biased haha
 
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crpower said:
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Seen this old kenworth at a truck stop the other day, so I stopped and talked with the owner. He said he built it/put it together in his driveway years ago with pretty much just hand tools.
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The Reo-Kid!!! That guy is classy as hell!
 
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Mikes truck and Randy Brown's 359 at Randy's Christmas party. I live in large car central.

Oh, and this pic is proof that little bumpers rule!
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Chrisd91 said:
So as long as it is not a DPF motor it is nothing to worry about? I'd never really heard much good about newer cat motors
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As far as I know Cat got a bad rap with their newer motors with the ACERT engines. From what I understand, is that the emissions garbage on the trucks causes to much back pressure and causes the turbos to fail prematurely.

Mr.T said:
People talk a lot of chit about Acert engines, but realistically they're not a bad powerplant. Typically they don't last as long between majors as the older ones (2WS, 5EK, 1LW, 6NZ, etc..) because of the garbage tuning, egr, and the high compression ratio combined with high boost levels, but as long as its a good, solid truck and the engine has good history I see no reason to stay away from them. But I'm a big acert fan so I may be a little biased haha
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I personally wouldn't be afraid of them either. But the first thing I would do is a computer tune and delete all of the emissions.
 
Chrisd91 said:
So as long as it is not a DPF motor it is nothing to worry about? I'd never really heard much good about newer cat motors
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My dad has an 07 with the twin turbo acert an he had a pdi tune done to 650/2150 an loves it. Nothing wrong with the motor but get it programmed like mentioned. The fuel savings will pay for the tune.
 
Personally, I wouldn't let pdi do the tuning. Pm JFaulkner and he'll steer you to the right place for tuning.
 
Ram12vcummins said:
My dad has an 07 with the twin turbo acert an he had a pdi tune done to 650/2150 an loves it. Nothing wrong with the motor but get it programmed like mentioned. The fuel savings will pay for the tune.
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Pull the Solenoids off. Pull the factory ecm off and stick a 2ws with a 600hp brake saver Australian file in it. Way better than PDI.


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There's a million easier ways to get power out of an acert than a 70 pin ecm conversion and physically deleting IVA's
 
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There's custom tuning out there now to disable the IVA's and uses a 7CZ 625/2050 as the base file. No harness swap needed
 
That's new info to me. I'm not swapping the harness. Just moving pin locations and removing a few wires. It's not as bad as it sounds. What's tuning like that cost?


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Mr.T said:
There's a million easier ways to get power out of an acert than a 70 pin ecm conversion and physically deleting IVA's
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tylerdillard said:
That's new info to me. I'm not swapping the harness. Just moving pin locations and removing a few wires. It's not as bad as it sounds. What's tuning like that cost?


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I'm interested to hear the alternative to what my dad has done with pdi. Also the negative about them. This tune cost him 2200 ish I think.
 
tylerdillard said:
Pull the Solenoids off. Pull the factory ecm off and stick a 2ws with a 600hp brake saver Australian file in it. Way better than PDI.


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You know that Aussie file has no adjustment for altitude, so when you go up any mountain it doesn't adjust fueling for thinner air, good way to cook an engine.
 
RockinRam96 said:
As far as I know Cat got a bad rap with their newer motors with the ACERT engines. From what I understand, is that the emissions garbage on the trucks causes to much back pressure and causes the turbos to fail prematurely.







I personally wouldn't be afraid of them either. But the first thing I would do is a computer tune and delete all of the emissions.
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What all is there in emissions equipment on an 06? I'm assuming EGR, what else?
 
will24 said:
Flat bed, and yup, over the road, he swapped from a little mercury to a big one because his wife and he were a bit tight together. Still has a small cam, was swapped to 8 bag though
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thats badass, I always had respect for those guys like that when i saw them on the road, any pics of it working? He run under his own authority?
 
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