If you want to get serious about IDI power

[6.9poweredscout]

What I don't get is why he would go to all that trouble and expense and use the 5.9 cummins as his platform? Making 2000HP with a DT466 as a starting point is quite a bit "easier" (but not easy) than a 5.9 6BT.

Heath

yeah the DT466 is the I-6 of all I-6's. IH really did their homework on that one, it's what all 5.9's wish they could grow up to be!...

-Jon

 

[f-two-fiddy]

Ummmm. I guess We better be more observant.


Go to the pic and count the holes, something doesn't add up to 5.9L

"Supplied by Woodruff Diesel, the billet block began as an 1,800-pound rectangle of steel and, after a lot of machining, the finished weight was 540 pounds. The block itself is dry-sleeved with a one-piece bedplate and four-bolt main bearing caps. The bedplate ties the block into the mains, pan rails, and engine mounts. Woodruff Diesel also supplied a counter-weighted OEM steel crank that spins six 4340 billet connecting rods, and six forged pistons from Ross with Total Seal rings. The camshaft is a custom billet roller with roller lifters, heavy-duty pushrods, and roller tip rocker arms. A 24-valve cylinder head with double valvesprings and a serious porting job accompany the custom stainless steel intake plenum and exhaust manifold."


How do they stuff those 6 pistons in 4 holes?

 

[flatlander]

look again at the first pic. That's the bottom of the block. They have drilled 4 "relief" holes in each slot to ease machining. The 2 on the end are machined rectangle and the last 4 are ready to be cut.

 

[f-two-fiddy]

Ahhh, I see now. I thought that was the top of the block.

 

[GenLightening]

maybe he just had 65 grand burning a hole in his pockets, i myself have that problem sometimes I think its also a case of more money then brains.

I say it "More dollars than sense"!

 

[bigbrown250]

CAT has more money then sense.

I'd guess thats where most of it came from.
Still wouldn't mind having it though.