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The 8 bangers have power but:
They are heavy.
They suck fuel.
They are heavy.
They have a two stroke power band.
They are heavy.
They slobber when idling over a few minutes.
Oh yea.....they are heavy.
Give me a 60 series anytime over the "Yamahas".
Drove them all and prefer a 4 stroke engine in...
60 series Detroit....I had one in a 96 Freightliner......it was a Caterpiller painted green.
Low RPM, high torque, unless you had a real heavy load on or hit a bad hill you didn't do a lot of shifting.
This is the engine they should have put in the HEMMETs instead of that V-8, double-breasted...
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