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Bil, MTU is Detroit Diesel's Industrial, and off road (marine) engine division Doug PS, are you still thinking of selling the KW? I have a neighbor that saw it when I brought it from Phoenix, he keeps bugging me to see if you want to sell, he wants it to pull a big horse trailer shoot me a PM 
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As Jim Tomer said, 71 years and counting for the 71 series [1938 release date] . Plus MTU had a press release several months ago that indicated they be providing parts for the US military for another 25 years .
The 1-71s that I've seen seem to all be generator set power from the WW 2 era. Our Cleveland distributer had one in the showroom front lobby .I know of 2 in Middleburg,Pa . that powered a radio station untill a couple of years ago . The Pittsburg area DD distributer or their employee shows one at Brownsville in August.
I can't quite visualize the 8 8V71 blowers grafted on the engine somewhere as a 12 normally uses 2 6V71 units, so the 24 cylinder could have 4 . The units pictured have the housing mounting of an inline 6-71.............but they could be stretched out .
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My B-53 needs an engine Steve. It has a long wheelbase, heavy front axle with floater tires. How about it?
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Enough talk, I wanna hear that thing running on the dyno!!! Whatever truck you put that motor in, make sure it isn't stuffed up under something, it deserves to be SEEN
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[quote]SteveH. (7/5/2009)
We are still out on the right truck, I myself am pushing for the Cabover idea, where you can see the whole motor and just use 24 zoom stacks. But..........I am not the money guy behind this truck, only the builder and maintainer , I think it will end up in a 359 Pete, but the lengthening of the cowl AND the hood is going to be too extreme. Ther are some big KW conventionals in a salvage yard in Barstow, CA, not sure what model they are, but I think plenty of room with a little work. But they are not quite the Hot Rod looking idea that I would like. On the second 24V71, we have eight 8V71 blowers that we are going to mount on a box, 4 on each side at 45 degree angles, all working, but slowed way down,and we are working on a Cabover cab in the rear and the engine in the front, kind of something that BiG Daddy Ed Roth would have designed. This is a truck that we have already, so we will use a front end set up like that. The video was shot at the Las Vegas Truck Show a week ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kLR92gfYlw By the way John (both of you) this is our 79 Pete at the same show, my boss likes Bud so that is the rerason for the decals. The truck is at about 40 seconds into the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiBDoPWGZJ8[/quote] Steve, You mean these guys in Barstow ?. http://www.barstowtruckparts.com/home.asp Saw a couple of heavy W900As in inventory, nothing with nearly a long enough hood, though the high mount cab would help get a custom hood and cowl up to the right height for keeping it all under there.I kinda like those 4 axle Crackerbox X-missle haulers.Hmmmm.Lift the cab a little bit on custom mounts, take off those tall super singles and put on X-one low pro super singles ( heck, maybe on the steers too, just to be different ), run a really short driveshaft from the Allison to the first rearend.Could always remove the front drive axle and just make it a long wheelbase tandem, just to have the frame space for the engine,tranny,and driveshaft.They are allready on air ride and he has plenty of them there for parts.Could work.John
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SteveH. (7/5/2009)
These are the blowers for the second engine.Steve, The NA engine will look neet with those blowers and zoomies, kind of like the PO'd Pete http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1AYgY_vllo Only bigger,lol. Gonna be quite a project just to rig up the linkage to get all those throttle plates to open in synch.John
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.................ohhh, that's gunno be bad to the bone!
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These are the blowers for the second engine.
Steve Hago lo que quiero (I do what I want!)
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