newmercman:
Carryfast I know you have a two stroke Detroit fetish, but you got to admit a Gardner made a lovely noise too, especially the 8 pot & they could match any two stroke for smoke on a cold morning
As a piece of engineering a Gardner engine was about as good as it gets, just a shame the management team were so short sighted, who knows? If they had devoted the same degree of engineering to their turbo charged engines as they did the 4L, 5L, 6L & 8L series of engines, things would’ve been very different in the truck world today.
It’s not just the great noise that a Detroit made it actually delivered the goods when it came to specific power and torque figures too which is why we fitted them not Gardners in fire trucks.But even if Gardner had turbocharged something like an 8 lxb it probably still would’nt have matched the old Leyland 680 which DAF developed into the turbo charged motor for the 2800-3600 range.But on the subject of smoke many of us Detroit fans always said that it’s the ■■■■■■■ which is all smoke and no go wether it’s warmed up or cold