V8 Cummins for sale on Ebay!!!

[snowracer69]

OMG, you can own the ONE AND ONLY Dodge 2500 with a V8 DIESEL!!!



Dodge Diesel V8 On Ebay



HAHAHAHA... yeah, that's the people I want to buy from. They even have a picture of under the hood, with the obvious single valve cover in plain view!



HAHAHAHA



Thought ya'll might get a laugh too.



Josh

 

[Dane]

Now they have corrected their mistake by adding -



SORRY THIS IS A V6 "NOT A V8"



Sharp as a marble those boys...

 

[HOSS]

Correction

If you look at the bottom of the ad you see they corrected themselves They say it is a V6 not a V8 Talk about brain surgeons and these guys sell vehicles for a living

 

[snowracer69]

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aren't ya'll glad these fella's ain't rocket scientists?



Wait a second... our rocket scientist crashed a multi-billion dollar probe into Mars... hmmm.

 

[Lnwing]

Did you notice that the color description was just as accurate as the engine description??



· Green Exterior - Red Interior

 

[Big_Daddy_T]

They said the probe crashing was because of a math mistake. The math problem was simple enough for an elementary school student to do. No kidding. Makes you proud doesnt it.

A friend of mine is in aerospace engineering school and he says it sucks balls. 50 grand a year to learn to crunch numbers. This guy got into harvard at 12 though. They had a national competition. He had learned to speak english 6 months earlier and he beat everyone even the teachers. The competition was for one teacher and one student.

 

[snowracer69]

Big Daddy T...

The "math mistake" that caused the Mars Lander to crash wasn't really a math mistake at all. The numbers were done 100% correctly... the UNITS were wrong. I'm unsure as to whether it was between an overseas company and Americans working on it, or whether it was between the two American companies, but what happened was a non-conversion of SI (metric) units to U. S. Customary units... or vice-versa... as I said, not 100% sure, but I know for a fact it was nothing more than units. Whichever way it happened, the probe went in at about 3 times the speed it should have and made a nice flat spot on the ground. LOL. Bet that engineer said "whoops" as his a$$ got booted out the door.



Anyway, tell me more about your friend who's in school to be an Aerospace engineer. Coincidently enough, that is the same thing I'm doing. I attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Az, and am in my second year of "learning" to be an enginerd... I say "learning" cause it's more of a programming... and yes, it's expensive as crap... I'll be in the hole over $100k by the time I'm done. What school does your friend attend? The last three years my school has been ranked #1 in the nation for Aero engineering, and we've had 100% job placement for graduates for the last 2 years... pretty good, I'd say!



Later, Josh.

 

[Big_Daddy_T]

Hey josh The conversion of metric to standard is technically a gradeschool math error.

His brother was my best friend up until about 4 years ago. He moved away and we gradually lost contact. So how many years for a degree. 5? He might still be there in AZ with you. Lockson Woo is his name. Do you have yearbooks. Check the last two years. Im trying to remember. My ex wife stayed with them for a month or two in 98 i think. He had came from a school in Florida and switched to AZ.

 

[Big_Daddy_T]

Im still holding out for the cummins v10 though that I hear so much about. Maybe I can park it next to the chevy v10 when I get one of those too.

 

[snowracer69]

Nah, no year books. Probably no chance of finding him, but if he came to AZ, chances are really good that he was at Riddle.



As far as the degree goes, it's set up to be a 4 year degree, but that's pretty rough, taking 18 hours the last three semesters. It'll probably end up taking me 4. 5 years, with 0. 5 of those being as an internship somewhere with some company... hopefully a little company called Lancair out of Bend, OR.



Josh

 

[Ian]

V8, ahhhhhh V6

Maybe it's a V12 and only half the engine shows in the photo. LOL.

 

[JMichelson]

V-8 Cummins

Actually If my memory serves me correctly, which it occasionally does, You can own a V-8 Cummins. I think Cummins did build a V-8. I ran a log skidder in the 70’s it was built by Can Car in Canada and I’m sure it had a V-8 Cummins in it. Does anybody out there in TDR land remember this engine, or is this another one of my flashbacks from the 70’s.

 

[Stranger]

You guys got it all wrong

This here Cummins is a one-off that was based on the Ferrari Boxster. It's a FLAT 12 rotated 90 degrees on the crank axis.

 

[Big_Daddy_T]

Tell you somethin. Lots of folks from my former local church headed down to bend. Seemed a bit unusual to me. Seemed like it was alot like eagle river ak on the cool meter according to the people who headed down.

 

[Badunit]

I have high respect for the engineering profession, being an engineer myself. Not doing the math conversion wasn't a math "error", the math was supposedly correct. This was most likely a miscommunication between different groups working on the same project and/or a lack of attention to detail. It could have been partly the fault of whoever entered the data into the computer not noticing that the units did not match those required by the program. It could have been the fault of the management team(s) not specifying the units to be used. These are very very complicated and intricate engineering tasks they are performing with a lot of people involved and a lot of specifications and information to develop and follow and it only takes one little mistake to cause the whole thing to go wrong. Not that that excuses anything, the end result was a new crater, but I don't think this was a "grade school" mistake.

 

[Bob Beauchaine]

When I worked at Portland Int'l Airport we had A 1712 cu. in. Cummins V12 as back-up power for the tank farm. It was installed in the early '70s and was naturally aspirated. In the late '80s we had to take it out of service for a week for maintenance. Cummins NW supplied us with a portable unit powered with a little inline 6 incase we needed power. This unit was rated for the same output as the V12. Anyone want to guess what little inline 6 that was? Yep we are all driving around with one in our trucks.

Bob

 

[snowracer69]

That's what I was trying to say earlier, Badunit, but it didn't quite come across that way. Most of my homework for classes is now done it teams as a way to learn to work in groups. In 3 semesters of school, I've been on 8 teams already, with 3 more in the works for the current semester. No, homework in teams doesn't mean you can get out of the work... you won't pass the class if you don't know the material yourself... . just a good way of studying for the tests, and rounding out your knowledge.



Later, Josh.

 

[BV]

That ad musta been ritten bi thems dudes that cudnt reed the balit on elekchion day

 

[John Berger]

Originally posted by Dane

Now they have corrected their mistake by adding -



SORRY THIS IS A V6 "NOT A V8"



Sharp as a marble those boys...

:-laf :-laf