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11-25-2016, 07:30 AM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: near Christiansburg VA
Posts: 692
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freightliner
Engine: Cummins 5.9
Rated Cap: 44 or 66? 11 rows
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Want a bigger engine
I want a bigger engine, but there's a point where an engine might be TOO big for a bus:
Wonder if Allison makes a transmission that will work with that?
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/01/08/45014/
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11-25-2016, 09:55 AM
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#2
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Bus Nut
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Richmond Virginia
Posts: 932
Year: 1984
Engine: 366 Big block Chevy! :) w/ Stick shift
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Sweeet! Love to hear that fire up. Does it have glasspacks?!
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11-25-2016, 10:51 AM
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#3
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Oklahoma aka "God's blind spot"
Posts: 2,446
Year: 1989
Coachwork: 1853FC International/Navistar
Chassis: 35' Retired Air Force Ambulance
Engine: DT466, MT643
Rated Cap: 6 souls and a driver
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Is that house on the side, the turbo?
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I once complained I had no shoes....
Until I met a man with no feet
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11-25-2016, 02:41 PM
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#4
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 8,462
Year: 1946
Coachwork: Chevrolet/Wayne
Chassis: 1- 1/2 ton
Engine: Cummins 4BT
Rated Cap: 15
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I'd hate to have to buy a set of tires for that trailer!
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11-25-2016, 03:06 PM
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#5
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Darrington, Wa.
Posts: 304
Year: 1994
Coachwork: Genesis/Am-Tran Tall Roof
Chassis: International, 643 transmission
Engine: DT 466ci 250hp, International
Rated Cap: 86 screaming Monsters
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Its to big to fail.
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11-25-2016, 03:42 PM
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#6
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Music City USA
Posts: 737
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freightliner
Engine: Detroit MBE906
Rated Cap: 72
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Here's the generator that you'll want to put in that bus.....
750 KW Emergency Generator Set
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11-25-2016, 04:16 PM
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#7
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Posts: 1,001
Year: 2000
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: International
Engine: TE 444
Rated Cap: 12
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The 1200 KW version burns 100 gallons an hour at full tilt, we had one at work for a week after a flood took out our switch gear
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11-25-2016, 04:34 PM
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#8
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 8,462
Year: 1946
Coachwork: Chevrolet/Wayne
Chassis: 1- 1/2 ton
Engine: Cummins 4BT
Rated Cap: 15
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"...yeah...it's a big block...but it will pull better with this stroker kit."
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11-25-2016, 05:18 PM
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#9
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Vacaville, Ca
Posts: 1,634
Year: 1988
Coachwork: Crown / Pusher
Engine: 8.3 Cummins
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Id rather keep it simple.
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11-25-2016, 05:54 PM
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#10
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Music City USA
Posts: 737
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freightliner
Engine: Detroit MBE906
Rated Cap: 72
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kubla
The 1200 KW version burns 100 gallons an hour at full tilt, we had one at work for a week after a flood took out our switch gear
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I don't doubt it one bit.... those big engines will suck some fuel down for sure.
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11-25-2016, 06:17 PM
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#11
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Oklahoma aka "God's blind spot"
Posts: 2,446
Year: 1989
Coachwork: 1853FC International/Navistar
Chassis: 35' Retired Air Force Ambulance
Engine: DT466, MT643
Rated Cap: 6 souls and a driver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stu & Filo. T
Id rather keep it simple.
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Good googly moogly, how's he keep his beard out of all those belts?!?!
My favorite dyno clip.... Corvette dyno
__________________
I once complained I had no shoes....
Until I met a man with no feet
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11-25-2016, 10:08 PM
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#12
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Eastern WA
Posts: 6,401
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American RE (A3RE)
Engine: Cummins ISC (8.3)
Rated Cap: 72
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There is something addictive about the two stroke Detroit's.
Listening to that one makes me want another....
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