Most trouble free engine

Cat Engine with Navistar chassis'.....

PACCAR's new engines should be out shortly...but don't get to excited....nothing above 425 hp IIRC.....

I have a Red Top that will throw your a-z-z against the seat...but Cali want's that engine melted down...it's not CARB compliant.....

 

Cali wants to keep neutering engines with their bullcrap "emissions policies", then they can figure out how to get their precious freight back and forth over the mountains. I quit going that way 3 years ago, and won't go back. Not worth it, ain't going, no way!

 

If CARB gets its way....
Trucks will have 90 hp engines with 4 speed autos.....

I'm surprised about the split speed limits.....
Some bureaucrat must be thinking..."Hey...if 55 is good....why not 45?"

 

I need 475hp minimum and I don't care what Cali thinks. They can fall right off in the ocean. If they really wanted to help they'd develop something like this: http://www.cyclonepower.com/

Check it out, scale it up to 600hp and do the math on the torque for some fun.

 

I have mostly used Cummin's power,very few problem's over the year's.
Detroit would be my 2nd choice.

 

Guess you never had a C15 ACCERT engine. Biggest turd I have seen yet, and crap fuel economy.

 

The last decent motor Cat built was the 3406B They've been going downhill ever since. I was a Cat man for many years till I got my first C15 (The last Cat I'll ever own) My first Cat was a 1693T/A Then a 3406A and then a 3406B Then I got the dreaded C15 P.O.S. and after the trouble with that motor and with Caterpillar I'll neve buy one of their sorry motors again.

I have a Cummins N-14 now and it's a great motor and when I buy another truck it'll have an ISX in it.

I'm not crazy about Detroits.

 

I agree, I have always owned Cats, but I would never buy another one. I had a 1997 Kenworth W900 with a 3406, that engine was nearly bullit proof, never had a problem in 2 million miles, best truck I ever had. I bought a 2008 Kenworth with a C15 and all the emissions BS on it, worst fuel economy ever, it has been in the shop more times than I can count to fix the problem.

The reason Cat is getting out of truck engines is because our governments want such strict emissions standards that they could not meet it without sacrificing fuel economy, so they decided to get out. My mechanic at Cat told me that Cat was paying a penalty on all the engines manufactured since a certain date because they didn't meet the standards, they were getting such bad fuel economy that they were putting them out without all the emissions garbage to make the customers happy

 

That's because Cat is only in the truck engine business as an afterthought. They are a tractor manufacturer That sold their engines to the truck market. Unlike Cummins, Detroit and some others they never wanted to redesign their engines from the ground up in order to meet highway use emissions. They can no longer get away with that so they have decided not to stay in the truck market.

The best engine that Cat ever built was the 1693 and they were a straightup bulldozer motor.

 

Yeah the old Detroit Jimmys were garbage but the Series 60 is a great motor.