Scania v8 better than cat engines?

Ya I rewinded video to verify I heard the 8 tires chirping and some blue smoke coming off them.

 

Magoo68: Me too. Rewinded to verify that I actually saw smoke and tires spinning, then took a pic of it.

 

Those European power monsters are haylo trucks. Hardly anybody actually drives them. Most trucks are around 450-500 hp just like here.

And they haul heavier loads.
And the cabs are cramped.
Nothing to be jealous about.
It’s just a pr thing they’ve been chasing each other for the most powerful title for as long as I remember. This is just what they do.

 

Used to work with a guy from Western Quebec who helped build a couple of those trucks. He told me the diffs and driveline are factory. Transmission was fitted with a larger input shaft that would spline into the clutch discs if you knocked the torsion damper out of them.

According to him, the 14L pre-EGR Series 60 was one of the best engines for building big power.

 

AmodelCat: I find that really hard to believe the diffs and driveline are factory to take that power.

We have replaced drive shafts, axle shafts, and diffs, but this is factory rated power.

wow! I feel better already I’ll go and lay some rubber with my company 575 hp Cat powered freightliner for the fun of it.

I can imagine my boss running at 30 mph out of the shop screaming at me with a long line of expletives, then the famous two words.... YOU’RE FIRED!!!

 

I can only go by what he told me as I've never had a chance to see one of those trucks in person (yet).

I think where you see the failures is from the shock loading. Those drives are spinning pretty evenly with no axle hop. I think the key is just send it and let them peel. If you half-send it then they'll probably try and hook up and start to hop.

 

As they are Canadian trucks,wouldn't they have heavier drivetrains from the factory?
(Compared to a US truck on 38 000lbs or 40 000lbs rears)

 

When I was a kid, dad was driving a Ford tractor in front of me, and I was following in his pickup. We were driving through sugar snow in the hills just West of Grand Junction where he cut pinion firewood. Sugar snow is like driving in sand. He could see the axle hop. Stopped the tractor and walked over to me: "Get in it, or get out of it, no in between. You tear up my truck, I'll tear up your ###."

 

Here’s a slow mo video for you guys.

 

V8 soundtrack......