I wish passenger vehicle engines were as robust as Detroit Deisel Series 60's

[MikeMike]

company i work for has had a Series 60 with 180K miles, but it has 25000 hours on it. if you do some math and calculate average speed of 30mph for a passenger vehicle you get 750000 miles on the vehicle. however the reason the mileage is so low because they just run loads from one job site to the one across the street which allows the engine to run all day, but only net about 2 miles total.

now they have never done ANYTHING to the engine until about 2 weeks ago when a turbo went , but other than that the engine has had nothing done except normal maintnence.

do that to any passenger vehicle and its doomed.

to bad the only company that uses Detroit Diesel anymore is Freightliner because Mercedes Benz owned DD, and MB owns Freightliner, so Peterbuilt, Mack, and others wont use the DD engines because it would be supporting a competitor.

and i wish we had the power they put out 515 HP @ 1800 RPM 1650FT-LB @ 1200 RPM

MIKE

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
company i work for has had a Series 60 with 180K miles, but it has 25000 hours on it. if you do some math and calculate average speed of 30mph for a passenger vehicle you get 750000 miles on the vehicle. however the reason the mileage is so low because they just run loads from one job site to the one across the street which allows the engine to run all day, but only net about 2 miles total.

now they have never done ANYTHING to the engine until about 2 weeks ago when a turbo went , but other than that the engine has had nothing done except normal maintnence.

do that to any passenger vehicle and its doomed.

to bad the only company that uses Detroit Diesel anymore is Freightliner because Mercedes Benz owned DD, and MB owns Freightliner, so Peterbuilt, Mack, and others wont use the DD engines because it would be supporting a competitor.

and i wish we had the power they put out 515 HP @ 1800 RPM 1650FT-LB @ 1200 RPM

MIKE

Yeah but what does it weigh?

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
company i work for has had a Series 60 with 180K miles, but it has 25000 hours on it. if you do some math and calculate average speed of 30mph for a passenger vehicle you get 750000 miles on the vehicle. however the reason the mileage is so low because they just run loads from one job site to the one across the street which allows the engine to run all day, but only net about 2 miles total.

now they have never done ANYTHING to the engine until about 2 weeks ago when a turbo went , but other than that the engine has had nothing done except normal maintnence.

do that to any passenger vehicle and its doomed.

to bad the only company that uses Detroit Diesel anymore is Freightliner because Mercedes Benz owned DD, and MB owns Freightliner, so Peterbuilt, Mack, and others wont use the DD engines because it would be supporting a competitor.

and i wish we had the power they put out 515 HP @ 1800 RPM 1650FT-LB @ 1200 RPM

MIKE

Yeah but what does it weigh?

2640 lbs dry.

not horrible. if you put that engine in a vehicle that weighed 6000 lbs total it would get up and go in a hurry.

MIKE

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
company i work for has had a Series 60 with 180K miles, but it has 25000 hours on it. if you do some math and calculate average speed of 30mph for a passenger vehicle you get 750000 miles on the vehicle. however the reason the mileage is so low because they just run loads from one job site to the one across the street which allows the engine to run all day, but only net about 2 miles total.

now they have never done ANYTHING to the engine until about 2 weeks ago when a turbo went , but other than that the engine has had nothing done except normal maintnence.

do that to any passenger vehicle and its doomed.

to bad the only company that uses Detroit Diesel anymore is Freightliner because Mercedes Benz owned DD, and MB owns Freightliner, so Peterbuilt, Mack, and others wont use the DD engines because it would be supporting a competitor.

and i wish we had the power they put out 515 HP @ 1800 RPM 1650FT-LB @ 1200 RPM

MIKE

Yeah but what does it weigh?

2640 lbs dry.

not horrible. if you put that engine in a vehicle that weighed 6000 lbs total it would get up and go in a hurry.

MIKE

You'd roast the tires first.

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
company i work for has had a Series 60 with 180K miles, but it has 25000 hours on it. if you do some math and calculate average speed of 30mph for a passenger vehicle you get 750000 miles on the vehicle. however the reason the mileage is so low because they just run loads from one job site to the one across the street which allows the engine to run all day, but only net about 2 miles total.

now they have never done ANYTHING to the engine until about 2 weeks ago when a turbo went , but other than that the engine has had nothing done except normal maintnence.

do that to any passenger vehicle and its doomed.

to bad the only company that uses Detroit Diesel anymore is Freightliner because Mercedes Benz owned DD, and MB owns Freightliner, so Peterbuilt, Mack, and others wont use the DD engines because it would be supporting a competitor.

and i wish we had the power they put out 515 HP @ 1800 RPM 1650FT-LB @ 1200 RPM

MIKE

Yeah but what does it weigh?

2640 lbs dry.

not horrible. if you put that engine in a vehicle that weighed 6000 lbs total it would get up and go in a hurry.

MIKE

You'd roast the tires first.

awd, hmm, that could be an issue, 4 wheel burnout all the way down to your rims?

MIKE

 

[Grouchyoldguy]

You couldn't put it in a 6KLB vehicle. It wouldn't fit, plus the cooling system is massive, the frame would rack the first time you stomped it, and the vibration would rattle your teeth.

 

[DivideBYZero]

That would be really flexible in a passenger car.. with a 2.5k redline.....

 

[OrganizedChaos]

a CTD truck is close enough. you put better filtration and cooling in one and it will run forever

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: Grouchyoldguy
You couldn't put it in a 6KLB vehicle. It wouldn't fit, plus the cooling system is massive, the frame would rack the first time you stomped it, and the vibration would rattle your teeth.

yea that i knew, but just imagine the power

MIKE