50,000 miles on my Detroit 4-53T swap.:) Here's the update.:)
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That thing sounds like my Kawasaki gas motor powered golf cart...I couldn't live like that...but as a guy who has done multiple platform swaps I can appreciate the effort and resolve to get it right.
Interesting! I kind of like the sound of a detroit, what kind of mileage did you get with the old engine and now with the detroit?
That's so cool. I keep thinking about swapping a 4BT into my son's Ram or even my Suburban.
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I love the sound of a Detroit. Awesome.
Definitely a cool swap. The last vehicle I saw a 4-53 Detroit in was a log skidder.
Awesome
What are you using for a transmission controller?
Did you have to make the flywheel housing to transmission adapter? Photo's?
Are you using the Detroit heavy flywheel, and attaching the flex plate to it?
Cool swap, it is an all mechanical governor etc?
How does it compare engine weight wise?
Did you have to make the flywheel housing to transmission adapter? Photo's?
Are you using the Detroit heavy flywheel, and attaching the flex plate to it?
Cool swap, it is an all mechanical governor etc?
How does it compare engine weight wise?
Nice, something totally different. Must be getting pretty decent MPG too.
I'm running the stock Ford PCM/TCM and tuned with HPTuners.
Yes I made both the housing adapter and the crank/flywheel adapter. Detroit flywheel, adapter, then the Ford flexplate. Thanks, yes all mechanical governor and the weight is a couple hundred pounds more than the 6.4 was. I don't have any pictures handy, but here's a quick video showing and explaining the adapters.It's very similar to the 6.4 in mileage, 15-16 mpg city, 18-20 hwy, and 11-13 towing.
It sounds reasonably quiet in the video, is it about the same for noise in the cab as the 6.4?
Very close, once at hwy speeds the tire noise is louder than the engine.
Wow, I had no idea the stock PCM TCM would work without all the engine sensor inputs, how you did that is the biggest part of the whole project. I forget if you mentioned it, was the detroit a vehicle engine or ? You must have access to the machines to make those adapters, super good job on that whole project.
Thanks, I kept 13 sensors off the 6.4 and adapted them to the Detroit. Without the sensors the 5R110 won't shift, so that's how I got around that issue. Instead of using torque values to shift the 5R110, I used speed and rpm. After many hours of tuning I got it dialed in so it shift like factory now.
For the adapters I made them myself as I have a lathe and the tools to make them. The engine originally came out of a 1979 GMC C60 with an Allison transmission.You get an A+ on that conversion, 13 sensors just wow. I suppose its the same thing all over again if you use that other trans?
