Detroit Diesel 8V71 COLD START / WIDE OPEN RUNNING

Cold start of my 1969 Hatteras 45' with twin Detroit Diesel 8v71's. About 26F (-3C) air temp, 36F (2C) engine and water temp. Engines have 3800hrs.

[georgebordi]

Conversion motors! They convert diesel into noise.

[Zified]

There’s diesels, then there’s Detroit Diesels. Pure music.

[agliem]

Those Detroits have such a unique sound. You can tell a Detroit from a mile away.

[douglasjohnson]

Had Detroit's on my boat in Nam. THEY NEVER FAILED US ON ANY OF THE MANY RIVER RUNS WE MADE.

[chuckstewart]

A lot of folks trash talk Detroit’s they are one of the most dependable, and easy to work on and maintain diesels ever built . If you were trained to work on one, you could work on almost anything they made.

[carolinawestern]

Oh boy, you can't mistake the sound of a Detroit! Back when I was trucking with my dad. One of the trucks he trained me on, had a 8V92. It was a 359 model Peterbilt, flat top. With the double sleeper. About a 83-84 model, with a 15Sp. Fuller O.D. which took getting used to. Because it had the upside down horse shoe pattern from 3rd-4th. and
13th-14th. In 15th gear, you were either lugging or flying!!

[jwdickinson]

there’s nothing like the sound of twin diesels running full throttle....👍👍👍 thank you for taking us along!

[jasonrarick]

when I was in diesel school way back when they had an 8-V 71 on its stand and did a dry fire.
pop off instantly, but me at 19 reach and grab the throttle body and yank the crank.
that things roared blew fire about 5 feet and 19 people left the room as the ground shook.
I was in love

[ADITADDICTS]

One of the first bankout wagons I ran had a Detroit. I got in the cab and sat down, started the engine and the guy who owned it and who's rice we were harvesting look at me and loudly said "run it until it sounds like it's going to blow up....then give it some more!"

I'll never forget that for as long as I live. That was a fun machine.

[susanhenderson]

The noise in that engine room at WOT must be horrific, used to run a fire engine with a Detroit, could hear it a mile away

[clinthuntington]

My grandad had a 42' Uniflite with twin 6-71s and this video just took me back 35 years. Such a sweet symphony when the two engines were running in synch. It was one of the last heavy hull boats Uniflite built and those jimmys could get that thing up on plane in pretty quick fashion.

[mdv]

That sound and smell when you first fire up a sportfish at about 4 in the morning is something that imprints on your brain. It has been burned into mine for over 50 yrs because I know iam going deep soon...

[coastaldavhawthorne]

Nothing smells better than a cold 71 in the morning at the marina. Use to love it back in the day. We ran 903’s in the Post.

[robertborchert]

Spent years with Detroits in the fire service. My favorite sound is the 8v92.

[mhepping]

It wasn’t only the sound but the smell of salt and diesel smoke. On party boats out of NH back in the 80’s with my grandfather. Will never forget those trips.

[PaulieB]

Awesome. I spent the summer of ‘86 out in Montauk working for my uncle. He had a 42’ Bertram with twin 6V92TA’s. Loved hearing those things sing. Nothing like it

[frumiousbandersnatch]

I love the smell of Diesel in the morning.

[buddythedog]

That sound. One of a kind. Great for naps inside the salon.

[MilePost]

Miss the days of a cold start diesel right away in the morning. Delicious smell.

[juniorkhan]

Those v8s are notorious and handsome the sound is soothing to the soul