[455Grandville]

Originally Posted by hurryinhoosier62

Brad,

Kinda of. It has a common crankcase with 4 individual heads (3 cylinders per head). BIG MOTHER!!

You ever mess with any of those Allis Chalmers 844 cid diesels ?

Originally Posted by bigunde

Were these maintained engines? I do know they leaked bad but that was their thing.



Popular Horsepower Ratings (8V-71)
866 ft·lbf @ 1400 rpm 318 hp (237 kW) governed at 2100 rpm
990 ft·lbf @ 1400 rpm 305-350 hp governed at 2100 rpm (turbocharged)
1064 ft·lbf @ 1200 rpm 305-370 hp governed at 1800-2100 rpm (turbocharged/aftercooled)


8V92

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2 strokes are low in torque, they need to run at WOT

The 71 seried Detroits were about the toughest most long lasting engines ever built.

Their leaking IMO was also due to the fact from the factory Detroits were the most

poorly balanced engines.

He fails to mention some inline 6 diesels were known for crank failures as well (usually

around the snout) and the V8 cranks tend to be stronger being shorter & more ridgid -