Recent content by 93detroit

Block to block (bare)

It is a Chinese bare block.

All this and renovating a house for my boy.

Will, it will be a while. My shop is only big enough for one project at a time, and I have two motor jobs going right now. My antique pulling tractor engine is just waiting on the head and paint, so I need to get that wrapped up first. But I plan to have a thread dedicated to the build.

I picked it up at the seller, 380mi round trip Monday. About a third of a new Optimizer.

I will do what I can! For any of us who ever wondered...what if? I'm not proud of where it's made, but if it can be made square, I think we all should know if we have alternatives. And no, I have never been accused of doing things the easy way. All the guts will be American if Mahle actually...

The Shanghai Shaker? The Peking Pulverizer? The Bejing Bully? The Mandarin Migraine? Time will tell.

I'm not sure how long I'll wait to pull the trigger, but pm me with the results just in case!

Mr. Will, that is exactly where I'm at.

Big T, The problem I'm facing is in the design of the block itself, not who makes it. Eighty years ago engineers figured out that the nexus of power and efficiency for a diesel was a compression ratio of about 17:1. Look where all modern diesels are at. This is where the heat problem of a 6.5...

I'll look into it. I've made many runs to southern VA over the last three years to my daughter's college in Lynchburg. So the trip isn't a big deal.

I looked into one from Boyce in UT- $550 to PA

I was looking for 6.5s, and an Alibaba add popped up. Just go to their site and search for them. I imagine vendors here won't be pleased about me bringing this up, but I know that even an Optimizer will break if pushed hard enough, long enough- if it isn't modified- and maybe even if it is.

I almost hate that I have to ask this, but does anyone here have experience with the Chinese 6.5 blocks sold on Alibaba? I am having zero luck finding a known good used 6.2 or 6.5 block. No one who has one to sell is willing to pull the pan and main caps to look. I refuse to pay $4500+ for an...

I just have my fuel pressure and Bluetooth mic in my cubby. Nice work!