Somebody STOP me!!!

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HotWheelsBurban

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Lengthen the frame and ramp truck it. Also, ditch the 8.2.

"Of the roughly 300,000 8.2s produced, nearly 100,000 were built as “Spares” specifically to replace engines that failed within the engine’s warranty. Of the roughly 200,000 engines sold, nearly all failed while still under warranty, many catastrophically."
Wow, this is very interesting!
 

Erik the Awful

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Hell, go with the Detroit 8V92TT - over 400HP, go big or go home :anitoof:
I've worked on 6V92s, and I don't think any 92 would fit under the hood. Plus, an 8V92 is 4,000 lbs! They are pretty hoss, though. I used to loadbank 220kw generators powered with 6V92s, and at 250kw they shake the ground pretty good. I put the loadbank inside our unheated shop on a 30°F day and it got the temperature up to 90°F in twenty minutes.
 

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Man those pictures instantly transported me back to my childhood. My father was a self-employed mechanic and had three of those. One was a Chevy Viking and I think it was a 1960 model. He had a `73 C65 with a custom tow body he fabricated and a `74 C60 with a Holmes ?880? body. The C65 and C60 both had 366 big block gas burners. Thanks for the pics.
 

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My dad was a mechanic , he couldn't afford / too tight to buy a tow truck so he always built his . First one was a 1953 Chevy , 283 with granny 4 speed, next iirc was a 66 GMC with the heavy duty V6. He used the Holmes 440 as a model for the boom and bed. I would leave that thing as is and drive it proudly. Be a great Christmas parade vehicle.
 

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Quite out of the blue, my older brother texted me pictures of the 1981 Chevy Medium brochure I had picked back then but had assumed was thrown out years ago. (hopefully he finds my '78 pickups, 4-wheelers and medium brochures as well.) Just thought I would post the engine page and the GVWR/engine/trans/axle page for posterity. hopefully they are readable.
 

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