If money and resources were no object, what would your perfect truck engine be? Doesn't have to be anything that is or was put in production. Anything you want.
Mine would be a two-stroke, opposed-piston V12 engine. 60° V angle, 92 cubic inches per cylinder (91.6mm bore 114.5mm stroke per piston). Twin turbos and twin Roots blowers. Common rail fuel injection. And no emissions devices outside of DEF.
Basically a heavily modernised, souped-up, opposed-piston 12V92.
Your dream engine?
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I have it...
The mighty Big Cam.
If I found a woman half as good as that engine, and that simple to maintain...
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Mack Econodyne. Nearly bulletproof.
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Cat 3406 sans all the electronics and emissions #### but with the MPG of a modern engine.
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Just give me an old 60 Series. You guys wanting mechanical engines may have forgotten how big of an improvement electronic fuel injection was. Yes, they'd run till they ran out of fuel, but with complex injection pumps and 4 mpg.
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I had a 1985 Ford LTL 9000
With a warmed over big cam 400 and a 13 speed
loved that thing
also had a cabover international with the set back steer axle and the 350 big cam and a 13 speed
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Well, being I need a rebuild now……a 12.7 Detroit that isn’t worn out lol. Not too much to ask right?
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