Well I'm finishing recovering from food poisoning from some bad Mexican food and I spend a bit of time digging up more history on the legendary "1500" hp idi from the 90's that hypermax. I found plenty of threads with one shred of info but never a single thread with a compilation of what we know, so here we go:
So history of the engine: in the early 90s Bill Jahns began to work with Hypermax to build an IDI for pulling contests. Max Lagod from Hypermax built the engine. The engine ran for a season doing pulling contests but was banned from the local pullers association. So the engine was removed from its original chassis and was dropped into a 1969 F100 with a tube chassis, built C6 with transbrake and Strange rear end. The truck was know as "Dadiesl". According to one of the engine builders the truck ran low 10s and possibly made it to the 9s as well (which would have been the first diesel to do so, almost a decade before the second diesel to follow up that time), lifted the front tires up twelve inches and weighed 4600lbs. The truck drag raced for a number of years and was driven on the street to car shows but the owner eventually grew tired of the inconvenience of driving it (could only run during the summer with the help of ether) and the truck was parked while Bill worked on other projects with land speed racing. The truck is said to still be owned by the same guy and is just sitting in some barn unused and still assembled somewhere around Joliet Illinois.
The engine details are unclear but from what I can tell it made in the neighborhood of 1200-1500 hp and 2500 lbs of torque at the crank but around 900 hp at the wheels. The block was a 7.3 sleeved down to a 6.9 and a 6 inch thick bottom end girdle. The heads were ported but still utilized the prechambers, they even used stock 7.3 head bolts but eventually oringed the heads. The fuel system was completely custom with a P pump that did 6000 rpms with a compound turbo setup that made 147 pounds of boost along with nitrous and water **** injection. The engine was decompressed to 15-1 and would only start on ether.
As I said before there is very little known about this engine and who knows how reliable alot of the information out there really is, but it still very interesting. Attached are some pictures I've found as well as some links for those who want to do some more reading.
http://www.oilburners.net/threads/ok-then-back-to-the-1200hp-idi.49694/page-2
http://www.mytractorforum.com/112-trucks/133063-1200-hp-idi.html
http://www.trucktrend.com/cool-trucks/1404-diesel-drag-racing-under-pressure/
http://www.competitiondiesel.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23947&page=4
So history of the engine: in the early 90s Bill Jahns began to work with Hypermax to build an IDI for pulling contests. Max Lagod from Hypermax built the engine. The engine ran for a season doing pulling contests but was banned from the local pullers association. So the engine was removed from its original chassis and was dropped into a 1969 F100 with a tube chassis, built C6 with transbrake and Strange rear end. The truck was know as "Dadiesl". According to one of the engine builders the truck ran low 10s and possibly made it to the 9s as well (which would have been the first diesel to do so, almost a decade before the second diesel to follow up that time), lifted the front tires up twelve inches and weighed 4600lbs. The truck drag raced for a number of years and was driven on the street to car shows but the owner eventually grew tired of the inconvenience of driving it (could only run during the summer with the help of ether) and the truck was parked while Bill worked on other projects with land speed racing. The truck is said to still be owned by the same guy and is just sitting in some barn unused and still assembled somewhere around Joliet Illinois.
The engine details are unclear but from what I can tell it made in the neighborhood of 1200-1500 hp and 2500 lbs of torque at the crank but around 900 hp at the wheels. The block was a 7.3 sleeved down to a 6.9 and a 6 inch thick bottom end girdle. The heads were ported but still utilized the prechambers, they even used stock 7.3 head bolts but eventually oringed the heads. The fuel system was completely custom with a P pump that did 6000 rpms with a compound turbo setup that made 147 pounds of boost along with nitrous and water **** injection. The engine was decompressed to 15-1 and would only start on ether.
As I said before there is very little known about this engine and who knows how reliable alot of the information out there really is, but it still very interesting. Attached are some pictures I've found as well as some links for those who want to do some more reading.
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http://www.oilburners.net/threads/ok-then-back-to-the-1200hp-idi.49694/page-2
http://www.mytractorforum.com/112-trucks/133063-1200-hp-idi.html
http://www.trucktrend.com/cool-trucks/1404-diesel-drag-racing-under-pressure/
http://www.competitiondiesel.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23947&page=4