V12 Detriot Diesel 525HP 

These engines red line at 2500 at load and 2750 without a load. I have had many of the older 8v71's at 2500 with a load. These are not engines that you can lug. They have to be ran hard at high rpm. If you lug these engines they will blow.

I drove a lot of 2 cycle Detroits but never a V12. We drove the 318s from 1900 to 2350. I'd kill to stuff a V12 in my 379 Pete.

Woue a specialist here

Do these diesel engines have valves??

@@AdmiralMattsoy760 2 or 4 exhaust valves in the head. Intake is through ports at the bottom of the stroke.

Post a video!

Absolutely class sound. Pure power.

I agree 😊

I love the smell of a euro6 engine.not a smoke generator

+Robert Reznik Who still uses a cable tool drill rig in 2015? Those things were antiques even 30 years ago.

+epistte I said they use these 2 cycle engines on a Bailer. Which is a cable tool rig that cleans out the well after the casing and gravel pack is in place. Some drillers use a 2 cycle on the turn table and mud pump. Because they like the simple dependable 2 cycle had about 30 hp / cylinder. If the power stops then expensive drill stem is stuck in the hole. The driller I used on my last 6 well was Hydroresources they use Cats the one before was W.D. Jones Drilling they use Detroit..

It's an 8v 92...there is series 53,50,60,71,92, and 149...do a little homework so you know what your talking about

About these parts I have seen on a drill rig (from a distance being driven in traffic) either a 12V92 or a 16V71 (poss even a 16V92). I can never get close enough to tell but I can see 2x cylinder heads on one bank and a turbo on one side sitting like this in the vid but on top of an inverted 'Y' so it can't be a 12V71. It may even be a 149 Series I just can't tell as it's always moving. It's on an old twin steer bogie drive rigid and has the derrick?? laying across the length of the truck and over the top of the cab and the detroit. I wonder what powers the truck?

Do it.. You know you want to see what happens. Look at them spinning around and around.. Whee!..

Yes Drath I was thinking of another part of my anatomy

Great carrot slicer

@@ThePaulv12 ahh yes the...... ear

+paul short I know I've listened to it several times over the last 2 years or so.

u never know until u try

why slow?

emil poulsen depends on how big your Honda is

It would go slow because, in spite of what it sounds like here, it's only turning a little over 2000 RPM. It has torque, for sure, but your problem would be the weight of the engine itself. Detroits were never light engines, mainly because they were fitted to trucks and buses that had huge frames to support them. Considering the Honda joke usually refers to a Civic hatchback, which is a uni-body construction, this engine would literally drop through its floor if you tried to install it. And yes, I said floor, because you'd not be able to fit it in the engine bay... And given the size of the transmission and rear-end needed to run this thing, you're better off trying to swap it into a Ram or a Silverado , and even there you'd need to modify it heavily. But hey, at least those were made to tow things, which is what this engine was built to do :)

vtr0104 but it’s still 500hp

There is no tragedy when you die doing what you like😊

Or a deuce and a half

+Cem Sezer simple they cannot meet modern emissions standards

Nice answer. Does VolksWagen/Audi know it?

+Joe Krushelnicki Actually they are starting to come back. Look up the Ecomotors company. NOx emissions are greatly reduced

I am aware they have started making a comeback, I understand a drawback is a relatively narrow powerband.

+Cem Sezer I 'drove' 8-71 T and 8-92 TA engines on the highway for 30 years pulling one or two trailers loaded with cubic freight but quite often heavy freight. The Detroit 2 stroke was a great sounding engine and when geared up properly and with the right diff ratios a great drive. Only problem was they did not have much torque and hated heavy loads in hilly country. I would 'round up all the Cats and Cummins guys on the flat ----- and give them a wave as they passed me on the next hill. They were an engine that had to be driven as if you wanted to blow it to pieces - and quite a few guys did just that..

Only a moron would put his hand in a running turbo

I agree, these 2 strokes move huge volumes of air. Put screens on the turbo inlets and save your fingers.

Yes,even larger, Detroit makes larger ones too,12v92,about the largest for a truck, a silver 8v92, be more than enough power.

RICHARD LYCAWOLPH ok thx.

thx Stan... are Volvo and Western Star good big rigs? i'm just wondering...people tell me Volvo are great but expensive and people tell me Mack trucks are junk,lol..idk, just wanting to learn more...i had a snow plow biz so i know more about pick ups and mini dumps, not real familiar with 18 wheelers.

G.M also made E.M.D train engines before Cat bought them out. BIG babies and all set up the same way as these.

71 are less powerful but more reliable than 92 series.

William M. they might be on it, we never see the compressor side of the Turbo's, the video only shows the exhaust side.

William M. Got scared and ran away

Yeh but they kill 4 strokes for low down torque. Thats why they pull so hard in trucks.

yes its a 2 stroke

Twin-charged as well... Supercharger fed by turbos! :D

Brandon Taylor its called a blower and it doesn't make any boost

Mason h Agreed! It is a blower. I was using the term Blower and Supercharger interchangeably and rather incorrectly, since a two stroke diesel cannot naturally aspirate itself, so it would be more correct to call it just a plain "charger", or more commonly, a blower .... :) I made a quick comment without thinking of the technical accuracy, and most often Blower=Supercharger on an engine.

Brandon Taylor blower....blower is supercharger....is it? and on this engine turbo is present....if im not blinde?

+Devin Williams And mileage. A series 60, which replaced the series 92 factory was almost as much horsepower but more torque than this engine, and would get over 7 mpg in a classic style conventional. I think you would be lucky to see 4 with this.

I could do it with my eyes closed, not hard once you have set racks and governor gap, hundreds of times. At Detroit Diesel we used to cold tune them, dyno them under load, then hot tune the valves and squirters. Then you would see the horsepower at full noise.