Posted by oliverkid on January 25, 2020 at 10:42:49 from (107.77.192.108):
In Reply to: Re: Steiger Bearcat 2 posted by jon f mn on January 25, 2020 at 06:20:52:
In marine applications they were pushing them to 400 horse with a roller valve train and they were surviving just fine. 3208’s are plenty dependable. The people that call them throw away motors are the people that think they can run them like a big in line 6 and lug them all day long. You can’t, you need to buzz them and let the rpms do the work like any other V8. They are governed at 26-2800 rpm for a reason, marine motors can spin even faster. Start pulling them down and you need to down shift. Even CAT recommends if you want them to give long.life between rebuilds you need to roll new bearing inserts in the bottom end every 1000-1500 hours, more so on the turboed engines but still important on the NA’s. To the people that like to throw out the “they are sleeveless and expensive to rebuild” argument I love to pull out the fact that the 5.9 Cummins is sleeveless and not to cheap to work on either but nobody calls them a throw away motor.
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