Ignoramus32337 wrote:


Lloyd, it has a green roots blower on the side, you can see it. It
ALSO has a turbo on top (you can also see it). You can press the
magnification icons near the photo to magnify it.

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Oh, that probably makes in a 6-71NT, which is actually quieter than the
original 6-71 with the straight-lobed rotors. Most of the turbocharged
engines also have the helical-lobe rotors, which makes them (marginally)
quieter.

They had one of the original gen sets at work for emergencies when the
underground cables popped (they used to do that a LOT). They'd park it in
the parking lot and run a festoon of 230 V cable to the basement of the
building and wire it into the panel. You'd drive past it and think your car
was going to EXPLODE from the vibration! That was a 6-71 (no N, no T) with
essentially a spark arrestor on the exhaust, not really any sort of muffler.
Everything on your car would be vibrating in tune with the Diesel's sonic
output.

Jon