Thought you guys might get a kick out of this:

Off a Tatra 815 V12.

 

haha that thing is cool... sure dont want to know what it costs...

 

What's it off of?

 

under the pic

 

Tatra also built a V8 diesel, a bit more than 7.3l, but with an inline pump also. I have to wonder if it could be adapted. I know they use their own independent sump, rather than being lubed by the engine's oil. Downside is that it was limited to 2600rpm, but since these are copies of early Bosch units that might be fixable-

 

Hypermax put some form of eight cylinder P7100 on their 900hp IDI and curantly makes a kit to convert 7.3 powerstrokes to a 8cyl P7100

 

Oh and there are definatly bigger IPs out their

 

Not sure on that- Anything larger I've seen had some form of unit injector. I'd love to see something like that though.

 

Why don't you adapt the inline pump off of the 9.0 international V8, its probably very similar as everything else on their engines is.

 

Those Tatra's are amazing, if youve never seen them in action go to youtube and search tatra. They are amazing!

 

My wife and I want to get an 813 Kolos (crewcab) to build an RV off of. Have it look like a standard tarped cargo bed while traveling, but have the tarp side able to roll out as awnings, and the whole top crank up to about an 8' interior height, along the lines of those hardside pop-up campers.