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Converting a 81 series V12 Detroit Diesel into commonrail.

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Old 04-22-2012, 12:47 PM
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Nice,keep up the good werk.
 
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Old 05-23-2012, 06:18 PM
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Detroits are awsome. Love the rig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My boss used to work on the oil rigs in Alaska. He told me about how one of the pumps was powered by a V-24 Detroit. Each cylinder was over 124 CI. And ran almost 4000 HP!!!!!!!!!!!! Gotta love them old screamers.
 
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Old 05-29-2012, 11:40 AM
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Awesome project!! Glad to know it was a success!!
 
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A small update on the 2 stroke GM.

After this run they discover engine damage on the number 4 liner. Will update some more after we know what happened.

Link to a small movie. http://www.teamftf.nl/film/2012/Lopik/Lopik_2012_1.wmv
 
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I'm new hear and this was the best possible first read! Bad *** dozen you got there.
 
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Old 11-17-2012, 09:15 AM
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Small update. The new engine build is well on its way. It turned out the old engine had leaking injector tubes and the damage that gave where a bent con rod an crank that was damaged as well destroying all the main bearings so game over for the old engine block.
 
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Old 12-15-2012, 08:01 AM
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The new build commonrail Detroit is ready and we hope to start it coming Monday. When that is done we going to break it in on the dyno.


 
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Schwing!!!!
 
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Old 12-17-2012, 12:56 PM
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New build V12 for semi truckpulling engine for team FTF has made is madden run.
Start RPM is a bit low with only 106RPM so we had to help it a bit with the cold start but ones it fired up it run very clean considering it got very large injectors.

Next step is breaking in the engine and load testing.


 
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Old 12-26-2012, 11:13 AM
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Wow! That is SUCH a cool project. If you were to market the conversion as a kit, what might it run? Thinking this V12 would be bad *** in a rat rod project
 


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