[455Grandville]

Originally Posted by The Boss

Same around here....

Most of the time I see an aftermarket body for heavy use like the above it's on a Ford chassis. You type in "flatbed" on craigslist/e-bay and it's the same thing. There's a pattern -

Originally Posted by hurryinhoosier62

Brad,

You could be right. Most of the 8V92s we got were 350hp. In fact, we had a couple of late ones that were allegedly rated at 395hp. Either way, the 8V71,6V71s,8V92s,6V92s and 903 Cummins were successfully powering OTR trucks YEARS before emissions regs and fuel costs made them obsolete. Think HOW MANY Petes,Kenworths and Freightliners were built with these engines, ran WAY past 3000hrs (that's only about 2 yrs for an OTR tractor) and went to the scrap heap only because of federal and state emission regs and fuel became too expensive to use them anymore.

The thing about Detroits is you can rebuild 'em over & over.
If "V" diesels were no good you wouldn't see 'em in marine use as you said.
As far as "undersquare" designs in a big rig think about it : height isn't a problem (stroke) in a long nose, but length is -