V12 kitty cat.

 

Hey Tom, I have a 3-53 Detroit at work looks like a good candidate for swap into the old 69 bumpside I have, what's the deal with those engines? I'm not interested in power I just love the sound of them things lol... and it's compact should fit nicely in the engine bay.

 

slow noisy screaming devils.
about 100 HP 3000rpm, and 200 torque at 1500rpm
3-53T is around 130 hp at 2500 rpm and 310 torque at 1500
here is a 3-53 in a roadrunner:

 

Now that is a bad *** little engine, the sound is insane, now I want it, I want it KNOW!!!! Lol....

 

back in the late 70's we had a 65 series chevy box truck with a 4-71 engine, 5 speed and 2 speed rear as a loaner that was rode hard and put away wet every day of it's live. i want to say it was a 74. had something like 600k miles on it, but still ran like a raped ape. and still got close to 9 mpg.

 

That's cool, my dad used to drive a 74 Ford 9000? With the I6 Detroit don't know the right designation #, but that thing sounded insane, it was a car hauler, sold it 5 years ago, still ran great, just couldn't use it no more it needed a lot of work to be road worthy, the guy we sold it to took the trailer off, and removed one of the rear axles and made it into a small crane.

 

Holeee crap that thing sounds cool!! I need one

 

I6 driptroit would be a 6-71.

part of my hearing loss was from running a terex TS-36 scraper pan.

12V71 in front with a 6 inch exhaust pipe 3 foot from your ear. and no muffler.
rear engine was a 6-71. weight empty was 90,000 lbs, loaded was rite around 200,000 lbs.
ran that pig for around 6 months. the driver seat was on top of the 175 gallon hydraulic oil tank. in the winter you would fire it up at -10 degrees and start out wearing a deep freeze arctic snow suit. 1 hour later you were in t shirt and shorts sweating your asterisk off with all windows and door open, and it was still 90 degrees in the driver seat. sumer time could see 140+ in the seat, we usually ran it standing up in summer. and took turns with no one in the cab more than about 1/2 hour

 

Wow! That is an impressive piece of machinery!

Just checking in, nothing new or exciting going on here, hope everyone is well!

 

we had two of them Thomas. and let me tell you something. when one of them gets stuck. IT GETS STUCK
the other one sunk in a silt pit from an old sand washing operation no one new about that was buried about 60 years before.
basically a 30 foot wide X 20 foot deep quicksand pit.
took three days to get it out. we finally ended up digging the whole mess out with 4 excavators 80 foot wide, then made a 200 foot long ramp, and hooked 2 D-6 dozers, 4 D-8 dozers, 1 D-9 dozer, my TS-36, and a 265 cat excavator nose to tail with an assortment of 1 inch link chains and cables to drag it out of the mess.
that was back in my heyday, when i was running heavy equipment in my off time between moving the machinery.

 

Boy, that would have been fun to watch.

 

it shut down the NJ turnpike for the better part of a day during the pull. we were along the side of the active roadway, doing a 5 mile section of a 3 lane widening project on each side of the road. and believe me Darrin, it was not fun to be part of !!

 

I bet it was stresfull for those involved.

 

For anyone that has an oil pan on their shelf, can you send me the diameter of the oil plug adapter hole and a rough size of the locating 'triangle'?

 

Is the Super Duty (99-03) the same? If so I got one at work I can get pics from.