After spending Saturday crawling over and under my 5.9L Cummins, doing
an oil change and valve adjust I would say that you could not lop enough
weight off the engine to make it suitable for such an application.
It's a very heavy, heavy duty truck motor.
It would be like putting a tractor motor in a sports car.
Kelvin.
Ducking.
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From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Gasket Works USA
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:15 AM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: four cyl diesel
I was thinking of our TR tractor motors and one thing led to another.
So, why doen't Cummins take their prooven 5.9L diesel take two cylinders
off and make it a 4 cyl 2L motor? Give it all the fancy electronics,
best turbocharger and fuel mangement software and get 250hp and 300ftlb
of torque and place it in a light weight PU truck or sedan? I bet a
light weight vehicle with this could be very peppy with good mileage.
I know emissions are always a factor.. but, with all the know how we
have today -this is duable.
Why is it that we don't have a good reliable domestic 4 cyl diesel?
Mordy
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