Origin of power stroke engine
Heard a comment at work, today, that the powerstroke diesel, is a gas engine reworked as a diesel. Have not heard or read this before so I thought to ask here .
Forum Discussion
You claim to own 5 oldsmobile 350 diesels.
I don't claim anything, I do own 5 of these engines and a bunch more parts.
Have you ever had one torn down?
Yep, sure have.
If you had you would have found the heads have 13 head bolts. Where did your claim of 10 come from?
Really??? You need to immediately call Summit racing and tell them that ARP is ripping their customers off!!! Olds 350 5.7 diesel stud kit.
The heads were not gas heads as they have a pre combustion chamber and two holes in the pre combustion chamber for the injector and glow plug. This required a completely new head.
No kidding? Really? They also don't have spark plugs so that must really make them clean design diesel heads hu? LOL, NS they have pre combustion chambers!!! It's a diesel!! They just pour a bit more cast iron in the chambers of the gas head, plug the SP holes and add injector holes and wa la, instant diesel head.
The main problem that Oldsmobile had was the head bolts. Had they corrected this problem and used high strength studs early on the engine may have had a better future.
Aaaaaaaaa no. If you know anything about the 5.7 diesel you would know that the ARP bolts fair better than their studs in this engine. BTW GM had 3 versions of TTY bolts for this engine. They got it good but never got it perfect even with their 3rd gen design.
But you will find Ford did try the 10 bolt head with their 6 l diesel with head gasket problems.
Well, you did get one correct!!! Good for you!! And just for your knowledge, the 6.4 also had 10 head bolts / head. :B
The bottom line for the 5.7 diesel is: I can bolt A BUNCH of parts from a gas Olds onto my diesel and vice a versa. Hell, they even left the distributor hole in the block from the gasoline engine and plugged in a vacuum pump in place of it for the diesel.
Name ONE diesel engine that shares half as many parts as the 5.7 Olds diesel does with a gasoline engine and I will believe you!!
I don't claim anything, I do own 5 of these engines and a bunch more parts.
Have you ever had one torn down?
Yep, sure have.
If you had you would have found the heads have 13 head bolts. Where did your claim of 10 come from?
Really??? You need to immediately call Summit racing and tell them that ARP is ripping their customers off!!! Olds 350 5.7 diesel stud kit.
The heads were not gas heads as they have a pre combustion chamber and two holes in the pre combustion chamber for the injector and glow plug. This required a completely new head.
No kidding? Really? They also don't have spark plugs so that must really make them clean design diesel heads hu? LOL, NS they have pre combustion chambers!!! It's a diesel!! They just pour a bit more cast iron in the chambers of the gas head, plug the SP holes and add injector holes and wa la, instant diesel head.
The main problem that Oldsmobile had was the head bolts. Had they corrected this problem and used high strength studs early on the engine may have had a better future.
Aaaaaaaaa no. If you know anything about the 5.7 diesel you would know that the ARP bolts fair better than their studs in this engine. BTW GM had 3 versions of TTY bolts for this engine. They got it good but never got it perfect even with their 3rd gen design.
But you will find Ford did try the 10 bolt head with their 6 l diesel with head gasket problems.
Well, you did get one correct!!! Good for you!! And just for your knowledge, the 6.4 also had 10 head bolts / head. :B
The bottom line for the 5.7 diesel is: I can bolt A BUNCH of parts from a gas Olds onto my diesel and vice a versa. Hell, they even left the distributor hole in the block from the gasoline engine and plugged in a vacuum pump in place of it for the diesel.
Name ONE diesel engine that shares half as many parts as the 5.7 Olds diesel does with a gasoline engine and I will believe you!!
