Detroit Diesel Vid

[MLimpert]

Check out this machine turning fuel into noise:



http://videos.streetfire.net/search/diesel/2/de7bf0f1-d780-4fbb-85ac-98690165793e.htm



I have to admit it sounds pretty cool. I haven't heard one in a while!

 

[Jong]

Sounds awesome... love the sound of those Detroits! Reminds me of the feature truck from "Maximum Overdrive".

 

[WDixon27]

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet i want one just for the sound, maybe slam a couple turbos on it too Oo.

 

[Philip]

Sounded like a 238 V6. The caption below the vid says a GMC. That sure looked like a IHC dash to me.



I got stuck driving a Ford 7000 this fall hauling corn with a 8V92 and a 13 spd.



I don't miss the sound of a Detroit.

 

[JFaulkner]

Check out this machine turning fuel into noise!

That is about all those are good for. Detroits (like Harleys) are also good for oiling the driveway to keep the dust down. 2-strokes are for dirtbikes and chainsaws that's about it. They (2-stroke Detroits) sound good but with 200 hp and about 3 ft lbs of torque they barely get out of their own way. :-laf

 

[catoiler]

That is about all those are good for. Detroits (like Harleys) are also good for oiling the driveway to keep the dust down. 2-strokes are for dirtbikes and chainsaws that's about it. They (2-stroke Detroits) sound good but with 200 hp and about 3 ft lbs of torque they barely get out of their own way. :-laf

Got a buddy with a twin turbo'd silver 92 in a narrow nose pete that turns low 11's. not to shabby for a 2 stroke!

 

[Silver Bullet Ram]

Those engines were loud. I remember a guy who complained about his loss of hearing do to driving an old detroit.



Gary

 

[MN Cummins Lvr]

That is about all those are good for. Detroits (like Harleys) are also good for oiling the driveway to keep the dust down. 2-strokes are for dirtbikes and chainsaws that's about it. They (2-stroke Detroits) sound good but with 200 hp and about 3 ft lbs of torque they barely get out of their own way. :-laf

When I was just a tike, I remember my grandpa saying the same thing... "GMC's were all noise and no power. " :-laf I do love the sound of the old Detroits though. One time back in the early 80's I was talking to a driver on the CB who was in a old Binder with a 238 Detroit and he told me not to follow too close because he didn't want me to get oil on my windshield. :-laf



Paul

 

[Nate]

They sound good, but just like a M35 2. 5 ton, after driving it for a few hours, the cool factor goes away.



Just need to wear earplugs :-laf

 

[Silver Bullet Ram]

Does Detroit still make the old noisy oil burning engines?

 

[hintonJ]

They sound good, but just like a M35 2. 5 ton, after driving it for a few hours, the cool factor goes away.



Just need to wear earplugs :-laf

Twin 8V92's sound REALLY good backing down on an 80# yellowfin tuna in the gulf stream! Best grocery getter ever.

 

[bmoeller]

Does Detroit still make the old noisy oil burning engines?

Don't know for sure. They may. Would probably still be used for irigation pumps, and hospital gensets, and that sort of thing.

 

[MVieira]

My Dad had a 50's vintage 3 axle GMC truck with an inline 6-71 Detroit 2-stroke in it. It had a 4-speed main box and a 4-speed aux. box. I learned to drive a truck in it. I used to haul corn silage to the scales in it and sugar beets to Spreckles Sugar. It was a work out to drive, you had to keep it between 1700 rpm and 2100 rpm or you couldn't shift it or it would fall on it's face and on some of the splits with the two 4-speed boxes I had to take my hands off the wheel to shift both boxes or I couldn't get it shifted quick enough. With 16 gears and trying to keep it in it's RPM band you would have to shift about 5 to 6 times just to get thru an intersection, that might be a little exaggerated but it sure felt like that. Anyways it did sound awesome like the video when you wound it up thru the gears and a straight pipe but I remembered being very tired at the end of the day and my ears would still be ringing when I woke up the next morning.

 

[lil red cummins]

ah memories - like sticking your head over a V16-71 in a Koehring 1066 backhoe and firing it off with ether



never did it a second time.



6-71 was my favorite. many different applications.



jim

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

We had 16V-71's on the ship in the Navy, they would start and go directly to 1800 rpm, man those things would scream.



A few years ago my father and I went to an antique truck and tractor show, all of a sudden I hear the sound of a detroit, I turn around and there is a 53-56 Ford F-350 dump truck pulling in. The guy pulls in right near where we were and him and his wife get out and pull out their ear plugs. It was a neat little rig with the 4-53.



A guy brings his old Brockway to the big rig pulls at the local fair with a v-12 detroit in it, A buzzin Dozen, man that thing is loud with straight pipes.

 

[Silver Bullet Ram]

Just watching the clip makes my ears ring.



Gary

 

[JFaulkner]

Is this a detroit? (on right) Sounds close but seems to have wayyy too much turbo whistle. (and it's moving way to fast) :-laf



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P. S. the trucks in the video each have 25 units of plywood which are around 4k lbs each which is 100,000 lbs NET. One way to separate the men from the boys!



For those of you that like videos. Canadians have all the fun!

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[bighammer]

Looks like a cool event. Does it have a particular name?

 

[JFaulkner]

Looks like a cool event. Does it have a particular name?

I can't find anything on the event in the videos, but here is one like it only with less weight and a bigger hill.

 

[RALLER]

Gutted stack

40 years ago, pulling 2 trailers, had a new GMC coe with a 238 with a 10 speed road ranger. They gutted the stack. I sure liked that sound. Later on i drove a 4000 WHITE coe. It had a 238 detroit with a 5 speed synkro main box and a 3 speed tandum operated by a air switch. Had to clutch the main box, worked the tandum with the foot feed. This gave a 200 rpm split. I would skip shift, 400 rs, in the lower gears. This was a nice set up. Real easy to use. Had no problem pushing wind. At least it would keep me a wake playing with the gear shift in hilly country.