CAT Engine Workshop is Offensive

CAT Engine Workshop is Offensive

08-07-2006, 05:09 PM

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Greenleaf

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CAT Engine Workshop is Offensive

Bluebird is now utalizing CAT C-7 engines and I have to learn something about them. They have dropped the Cummins 5.9 for now.

The factory rep had nothing good to say about Cummins 5.9 going so far as to say it's nothing more than a pick-up truck engine that is cheaply made/mass produced. He contimued to say that CAT would not mass produce such an engine as their production standards are higher and thus they do not intend to lower their standards.

He apparently needs to educate himself.

FWIW CAT engine are now going to be utalizing common rail fuel injection and adopting cold air recirculation as opposed to EGR.

GL

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