Cummins KTA-600. RACE motor?

I remember that tractor, truck number 12.

No one wanted to drive it since everyone had never driven a Detroit before and hated it, myself a Detroit was not a problem and loved driving it since it pulled and ran like a freight train. Slow to start out but could pull anything on the deck, 18 speed Eaton Fuller transmission and long legs with no top end governor except whatever was on the motor.

As long as I kept the turbo boost around 20 she would pull.

For anyone that has not heard a Detroit with straight stacks, here is a quick clip.

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I don't remember that truck with an 18 speed, did he install the 18 speed later? If I remember correctly it had a set of Spicer boxes with an air shift on the auxiliary.

 

Must have changed the transmission out by the time I was driving it or another truck with the same motor, will have to call him and ask since that was not the same setup.

I had a short video of it on my old computer that died a few years ago, shame it went with the computer and I had no clue back then how to copy anything off a computer back then.

 

Enough older big 4wd ag tractors used the 1150 cummins.

 

Not mine.
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/bfs/2612019004.html
Start with kta injectors

 

I don't know about the whole engine,but the heads on my KTA600 say made in Japan. Trig

 

Yeah, there are KTA600 made in Oyama, Japan, generally for Komatsu dump trucks and other mashines and for marine application.

But on Russian fat trucks engines are made in Chongqing, China are used generally.

The answer is simple, just look at the map and see where is Kurgan, Russia and were is Chongqing, China.

Japanese engines are popular in countries with easy sea shipping (yep, that's why Isuzu engines are widly used in ucraine, lower shipping cost to Odessa!).

Sea shipping is much cheapert trucking! and that''s why cummins build plants near sea ports ore not far from truck makers. There is Cummins plant in Tatarstsan, Russia on KAMAZ truck plant area.

Big Cummins engines are made for construction machines and for ships so, Jupan and China are very good for this! I see many graiders, exavators, dump trucks made in China for their "national projects" and for export! and many of them are Cummins powered. For Chenese internal market non EGR Euro-3 engines are used. More power, no unreliable emission stuff.

 

A new K19 puller is born.

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Sweet!

Puller heck, put it on the road and let the castrated ####### children motors rot.

 

I wouldn't want to run one as wild as this one over the road (it is going in a street legal 78 or 79 Pete). You'd be ok bobtailing from pull to pull...but pulling mountains at 90,000lbs will catch up with you (and your wallet) quick....nothing else will be able to catch up, though!

I know a fella who ran a nearly 1,000hp KT Cummins over the road about 10-15 years ago (the one in the video has a good bit more than that). He passed everything except fuel stations haha. He also kept spare pushrods, heads, valves and other parts/tools under the bunk. Fella spent at least one long night parked under an overpass swapping heads. He loved every minute of it, but it was hard on the wallet.