The engine is a turbo charged D333 which was, more or less, a precurser to the 3306. It's still one of the CAT's that you look at and can tell that it has that 'old' look to it. You can see the castings around the individual bores, it has an inspection plate down the left side, and to top it all off it also has CATERPILLAR cast into the block in big letters.
Beyond that, if I remember the specs right, the bore is a 1/4 inch smaller but the stroke is the same as the 3306. The typical 6C was powered by a D315 with about 120 HP but the 333, from what I have been able to find had somewhere between 125 and 150 HP. I know the customer said they had rented a newer D6 a month or so back to do a project and he said that regardless of 'rated" HP, this machine would push circles around the new one.
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