Are you talking about this thread?
http://powerstrokenation.com/forums/...opped+nbm2+idi
Gotta admire the guy for taking all the heat and for trying what he wants. I would love to see him succeed and can't wait for the dyno numbers.
I do question how long the engine will last or how dependable it will be. It might be as dependable just no way to know yet.
The reservations I have already are from the failures he has already had.
The IP has failed already, it is a hybrid, not something you can get fixed at just any diesel shop.
Actually, any stanadyne shop can fix it. All of the custom parts are hard parts. I just have no reason to have any other shop work on it other than DPS, service is free since I am R&Ding a new pump. IP failure was caused by air ingestion.
The cracked intake, as much welding as they are doing no way of knowing if it will hold yet or what changes they will need to make to get it to hold.
Intake cracked because RacinNdrummin didn't jig the intake up when he built the first one. We knew the intake was twisted up but hoped that the engine heat cycling would relieve residual stress. Obviously not the case. My second intake I built is not on the truck and fit beautifully. No warpage
The freeze plug that popped out, are we sure it was just an installation error?
100% certain that it was installation error. Racin' had never installed this style plug before, and he was unaware that you had to pound a dimple into the center of it to expand the plug into the block edge. The first plug came out when the head gasket blew, directly into the rear water jacket. This is common among all boosted engines when they blow HG's
The head gasket, makes sense that it was a piston in backwards but the engine has not even been loaded hard yet, has it even ran 1,000 miles yet without breaking?
Engine has ran about 2,000 miles so far, all hard miles.
A lot of people with a lot of knowledge have told him over and over that it is not possible, but I hope that just motivates him more to complete it and make it work. I am sure many of those nah sayers have never put as much work into actually trying it and making it work as he has. They are just puking up what they read somewhere.
Finally, somebody else gets it.
I hope he does it and I hope it is dependable, but for me it will take 10 other guys doing it and running it a couple years before I would make the investment on the build and then trust it on a loaded trip to Alaska or anywhere remote. (which is why I would want it, might be different for others)