Detroit Diesel 6v53

Another movie shoving a Detroit Diesel 6v53 in Lidköping, Sweden. One of the first test drives of this engine I think. No air filter yet.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Detroit
• Diesel
• 6v53

[snaellast]

Just waited for someone to notice that little "accident"..:D Yes, it´s a v6. Twostroke.

[UncleWeldanz1]

Count the exhaust runners on the exhaust manifold dingaling, it's a 6V-53T Detroit,

I've worked on Detroits since 14 years old...

now I'm 50 and considered the "Diesel Kahuna" of Waimea. I've handled mostly 6-71's,8V-71's,

& 12V-71 & 12V-71TT's...a 6V-anything is basically 1/2 a 12V. Don't speak too fast, you might have someone like Old Uncle Welda out there to have to shut you down, son...

[TestECull]

The blower is there for induction, just so you noobs out there don't misunderstand. Without the roots blower, this engine cannot run. They do not produce vacuum on their own, a 2-stroke Detroit with just the supercharger is considered naturally aspirated.

[numbnutz63055]

Back in the mid 1970's used to drive an old GMC single axle tractor from the 60's that was converted into a dump truck. It had a 6v53 Detroit with only a blower on it, The hood emblem had Toro Flow Diesel on it. I liked the way that engine screamed running it up through the gears(2100 to 2600 rpm ) It sounded real mean. Once the fine splines came off / wore off the blower drive shaft inside the sleeve the drive gear is on. The engine shut down. The blower was not pushing any air into the engine.

[spencerbrown2007]

Looks like Karl Childers

[StianM1979]

@TestECull Did you even reed my reply carefully?

And no the detroits don't pull air into the cylinders. No engines do. They are charged by the outside pressure. You have supercharged engines and those that are charged by the atmospheric pressure. If you cared to check out the two stroke B&W and Sulzer engines you would see two strokes using turbos without a bloower.

[TestECull]

@StianM1979 Detroit 2-strokes have no vacuum. They can not pull air into the cylinders without the mechanical blower. As a result, if that's not there, they won't start, and if it fails, they run like absolute ass. They may even stall entirely if you throttle down to slow idle as the turbos won't be able to keep enough boost up, and of course the N/A ones will stall if the blower fails. You're welcome to turn that blower however you want but without that blower she won't run.

[StianM1979]

@TestECull To correct you the engine could run without the blower if the turbos produced boost. Large B&W two strokes are inducted with a electrical blower at low load, but only feed by turbos once the turbos produce boost. But before the boost is there and at startups the electrical blowers are needed for induction.

Such a system on a small engine like this would probably be too complicate for the average user to maintain that it would not justify the saved fuel cost.

[mongo5888]

@UncleWeldanz1 Is it difficult to put one of these into a 70's GMC pickup? What is the biggest Detroit that could fit into a pickup like that?

[TestECull]

@willDANCEforPENNIES Yes, it does. Like I said earlier, this engine does not create any vacuum to pull air into the cylinders. Without the blower turning, this engine could not run. These Detroit two-strokes which only have the blower on them are considered naturally aspirated.

[willDANCEforPENNIES]

@TestECull wait, so this engine has a turbo AND a blower?

[Puigaebeltrano]

PT-BR: esse motor acelera como um 2 tempos

é 2 tempos???

desculpe o inglês ruim

EN-US: The engine like a 2 Strokes (rev like 2 strokes), is it true? its a 2 stroke?

sorry with my bad bad bad english

nice video, nice sounds