Found a Detroit in A Chevy CC Today

[snicklas]

I remember the Township I worked for had and Austin-Western Road grader with a 3 cylinder Detroit (Dont know the ####). It was one loud engine, we lived a block away and I could hear them fire it up inside the shed, when I was in the house. Knew it was time to go to work. I loved the sound of that Detroit, from a distance. They now have a 6cyd Deere grader, doesn't have quite the same character as the Austin, but much more user friendly.

 

[BigRigTech]

Goof, I think I just got an idea for your dually.........My uncle has a 453 screamer/leaker sittin in the woodshed...He would probably give it to me just to see me shoe horn it into 1-ton....I worked on a 35ft fishing boat with a 453, tough as nails, leaked oil like a tap, loud as hell but it alway's brought us home....The most reliable engine I've ever seen.

 

[91f2504x4]

Here is a screamin jimmy in an old F250.

Be warned though it is really loud when it first starts up.

 

[FordGuy100]

I like old detroits, kinda cool little motors. I suppose after a while though, they are no fun to listen to .

 

[Dsl_Dog_Treat]

I like old detroits, kinda cool little motors. I suppose after a while though, they are no fun to listen to .

Especially running 12 hour shifts line hauling gear from Little Creek to Fort Story in Virginia Beach rush hour traffic loaded to the max.

 

[towcat]

try this on for size.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzlNm9V9TCM&NR=1
I'm suprised his truck isn't full of bullet holes.
I'd be shootin' if I got woke up to this racket.

 

[Agnem]

Kinda miss that sound. The old Baltimore city transit busses I grew up around sounded just like that. They would drop you off, and leave you in a black cloud with a heavenly aroma.

Like this one

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[Dsl_Dog_Treat]

Kinda miss that sound. The old Baltimore city transit busses I grew up around sounded just like that. They would drop you off, and leave you in a black cloud with a heavenly aroma.

Ahhh, so now the truth is starting to come out. See I knew those therapy sessions would pay off some day Mel.

 

[typ4]

I can't tell you how many 3-53's we scrapped at Evergreen, they wouldnt let me store them. Idiots.

 

[Agnem]

Yes, an interesting feature of those busses was that the windows were hinged at the top. If you pulled the emergency handle, you could canter the window out and hang ninth graders by their ankles out the side of the bus. This was called a "****** roast". The Detroit would cover up the screaming pretty good, and the driver would get tunnel vision and not check his mirrors. This went on until eventually someone pushed the window out too far and it caught a utility pole. Someone got suspended for that I think.

 

[Goofyexponent]

Yes, an interesting feature of those busses was that the windows were hinged at the top. If you pulled the emergency handle, you could canter the window out and hang ninth graders by their ankles out the side of the bus. This was called a "****** roast". The Detroit would cover up the screaming pretty good, and the driver would get tunnel vision and not check his mirrors. This went on until eventually someone pushed the window out too far and it caught a utility pole. Someone got suspended for that I think.

! I never though of that before....there are some kids on the city busses here I'd like to fire out on the sidewalk!

 

[Goofyexponent]

Goof, I think I just got an idea for your dually.........My uncle has a 453 screamer/leaker sittin in the woodshed...He would probably give it to me just to see me shoe horn it into 1-ton....I worked on a 35ft fishing boat with a 453, tough as nails, leaked oil like a tap, loud as hell but it alway's brought us home....The most reliable engine I've ever seen.

That would be even meaner than the 408 stroker I wanted to build for it.

 

[BigRigTech]

I LOVE the sound of a 2 stroke detroit, it's not noise...It's a beautiful symphony of engineering...I must call my uncle about that 453.....

 

[vegas39]

We had a batch of 6v92's in a few of our school buses in the early nineties. They were given out to a bunch of school districts by the state to replace the tired old crowns that we were all still running.
They were the first of the new electronic diesels and it was part of a clean air diesel program that Cali was promoting.
A couple of the 6v92's we got ran on methanol, mixed with 15% gasoline (so you could see a flame if it caught fire) They were a pile of crap and had a one minute glow plug cycle that you had to wait for when the engine was cold or hot or the damn things would not start. They also had a big one horsepower fuel pump with a large fuel cooler. We could only get 5'000 miles out of a set of injectors before they were toast and I remember one morning one of the drivers started one up and it backfired and blew the muffler clean out the bottom of the bus.
Once the program was over, the methanol engines were changed over to 8.3 liter cummins but the diesels were left alone and as far as I know are still in service today. Boy you talk about nice running buses, my wife had one (6v92)and I loved running it out on the road for field trips. That thing would haul ass up the Cajon pass outside of san bernardino.

 

[The Warden]

But the majority do have 4 exhaust valves per cyl....... there are some 2 valve units out there -71 series that are prolly older than most who post here

My first Scout boat had a single 2-valve 6-71 main engine. If I recall correctly, the boat was originally powered by an inline-8 Caterpillar, but a ferry boat company had bought the boat from the BOP and pulled the Kitty-Cat out to use in one of their other boats. So, my Scout unit got the boat (sometime between 1965 and 1970, so long before my time) without an engine, and supposedly found this engine in a WWII-era landing craft. The injectors were so fouled up that she was only running on 3 cylinders for the first couple of years They were too cheap to install throttle controls in the wheelhouse, so they had an EOT and an engineer down there at all times. You can see the throttle handle and gearshift lever in the picture. THOSE were some fun times

This boat also had a (also 2-valve) 2-71 genset. We didn't have a tach on the generator, but she HAD to have been turning over 2500 RPM...we cruised at 1750 RPM on the main engine and the genset STILL drowned out the main I have no idea why it was set up to run so fast; I've been around other 2-71 gensets that run at a much lower RPM and are MUCH quieter.

I drove them crown buses for many years, both five and ten speed. I have to say, if someone has never been around one or driven one, they are really missing out.

I spent heaven knows how much time riding in them as a kid; I always thought they were cool because of the sound, the body shape, and the manual transmission. I was reading up about them, and apparently Crown buses aren't very common east of the Rockies, and they're built like tanks! I've always wondered what it's like to drive one someday, when I have time, disposable income, and space...