Cabovers

Some truckpulling.
An old 1970's Tatra 813.....good job for Stock truck with no engine modification

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0TWy18EgVY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cptOpseUXjM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Now, some cool Euro COE's truckpulling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTFNvU04L-M&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1exfIKTVA0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7WyL_uWpfQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa12zWRM-b4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

The video from Canada was 160,000 lbs payload racing up 12% grade!!!! Give me a old kt 800 a 18 speed full lockers. Stone stock 800 hp then a few adjustments... 30 year old tech out pull #### near any thing. Or go bach a little farther 16v92, for the detroit fans. The eu influence toke us the wrong way. The video of the eu coes looked nice. But I'm to sleep on that shelf behind the seats? Heck I fill up a us sleeper. I saw a good day cab. And yes we have day cabs with sleepers bigger than the trucks from that video.

 

the last video i show it in the truck stop to some american drivers they said that is not possible is fake. i turn arround and left.

 

don't ruin my day please.

 

Not sure what you mean. Using one of the cummins generator or marine v8 kt38's in a truck???

Sure bud, nt and ntc,s were pretty good stuff in it's time when diesel was $0.55 - $0.75 per gallon......burned 3 to 4.5 mpg developing 250 to ntc-350 hp, only later the big cam ntc-400 that you couldn't kip the top on on the darn thing...... ..you had to rebuild those things in under 200k or around 250k to 300k miles if you baby it and took good care of it.......and maybe was lucky enough to get a really "good one".
Sure, old kt's, nt's and cat 3408 and 3406 and such, make a good weekend burnout toys, especially if you let the guys at Pitsburg Power have a shot at it, but......it ain't wort a dang as a work horse anymore.
A good friend of mine still drives his 1978 Pit that he purchased brand new. Nour days it has a big cam ntc in it doctored by Pitsburg Power with all the ceramic coated pistons and all the trimmings developing some 700 hp, but he's having allot of funn regularly pulling burned up pistons holle after holle.
Any old mechanical engine you can easily turn into a black smoke pouring, rubber burning monster. The only thing is the fact that you'll have to ovahaul the darn thing after every west coast turn around..........not a very profitable business decision, if you ask me.
And for your info: you can take any old Euro engine and do the same thing with it. For example, take a German made 11 l in line 6 (MAN F8 truck) engine from the 1970,s and tun that thing from the original 250hp into a 600 - 700 hp and burn it in a day.
The truth is that all this Euro tech you hate gave us engines that develope over 500hp every day @ 6 to 7.5 mpg on average and last well over million miles.

Listen man! I don't care for all this electronics my self. I'm an old school guy and really like the old stuff, but it ain't going anywhere anymore other then the memory lane. Like it or not, we have to accept the new stuff cause these are thedays........$4.5 and soon enough $10 /gallon diesel, it's a really good incentive to go hi tech and get all the power out of every single little drop of availeble diesel.
I don't much agree with all this "green" stuff, but, it is what it is!

PS: Oh, old Detroits. 8v92 2 stroke?? Crap!!! You needed to put a pan under the stupid thing every night and colect the "10 gallons" of oil pouring out of it and pour it back in the engine in the morning. Besides that, you had to wear ear plugs going down the road. Thanks! But I'll pass.

 

No the bunk def ain't as big as us trucks but they are not as small as they look either, most are 800mm wide some 900mms thats almost 3 feet, narrow by your standards I know and true some trucks you may have to push the seat forward a little but an eu cab has much more room to move around than a classic style us truck, they are much much higher inside aswell as wider, the seats are where your wardrobe is so it's no problem stretch the arms out in all directions when pitting on the sweater you can stand fully upright in fact I'm 6'1" and I can barely reach the ceiling in my cab and that's stand on the 4" engine tunnel, here's this pic again so u can see what I mean: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4738810994_c516e302b9.jpg

I def don't agree they are taking us the wrong way, it's the only way! Fuel prices are getting higher $10 + a gallon here now and still rising, trucks here are now doing 12 mpgs at 88000lbs, higher with your type of weights, the biggest danger if war breaks out again in the middle east fuel prices are going to skyrocket and you are in serios danger of not being prepared!

 

Nah you can't say taking ye the wrong way, we're not experiencing the same technical problems as you guys concerning the emissions equipment on the trucks, sure initially they caused problems but they have mostly been long sorted out, trucks here are very reliable, generally u wouldn't expect any issues of any kind till well past 500k and then u could only expect very minor ones except for paccar engines, Those nearly broke me! Also I can't figure out how a great engine like Volvo gets redesigned in the states and then gives the trouble I'm reading about on this forum, I had 2 volvos here, bought them new, sold them both with 1m on the clock and spent no money on them except for servicing , tyres and light bulbs ( they both constantly blew headlamp bulbs ) I sold alot of my scanias locally, my neighbour has one with 2m+ on the clock, except for minor things like alternators , starters and usual bits n bobs it hasn't given any problems and he works it hard on tanker work and generally doesn't get too concerned about servicing, so it can't be the wrong way!

 

Hey, is this the inside of that Scania Longline "The Blue Griffin" ???

 

Yup that's the one. Problem with finding a picture that shows the size of a euro interior is getting an angle on it, it's only possible from a long cab, the only one in Europe is the Longline but the front part is identical to a normal topline ( except the colour! ) it's hard to demonstrate the actual room in a euro cab, on the other hand US trucks look huge in pictures but when u see them in real life they're tiny! I know the likes of US VOLVOS have loads of room but compared to a classic US truck, they can't be called small!

 

Hey, you have to understand that here in the US there are allot of those 450 - 500lbs truckers......