On 2015-09-14, Jon Elson wrote:
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.

Nice to know.

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.

A muffler does help, with exhaust sound, but not with the rattle and such.

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