CUMMINS - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed

Yeah, I bought the RAM 2500 long box, blew up the Five-9, traded it in for a Six-Seven. It's got big injectors, big turbo, got the TUNE, naturally, Dang 'thang makes 600 horsepower, seventeen hundred thousand torques. I can tow a damn church, run five to the Ohio Valley. The most important thing: CARBON WHEEL!!!!! Here's

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with Cummins. Okay, let me ask you something. What is the most successful diesel engine of all time? That's right, Cummins. Clessie Lyle Cummins was a simple farmer born in Columbus, Indiana in 1888. His parents were farmers and stuff like that.

Clessie worked hard on the family farm from a young age. I can relate. My dad made me farm gold on his World of Warcraft account while he was at work. Although I was 19 when the game came out. Anyway! Clessie was fascinated with engineering and all things mechanical and apparently built a steam engine when he was 11 years old. After graduating from the eighth grade, Clessie left school to focus on the farm. Honestly, if my son built a damn engine in our backyard, he'd let him do whatever he wanted. I'll probably do it anyway, because I plan on being a lazy dad.

A few years later, Clessie left the farm and became a full-time mechanic. He must have been pretty good because when he was 23, a racer named Ray asked him to join his team as a mechanic. Ray was one of America's pioneering runners. The Chicago to New York Speed ​​Record in 1903 and 1904 Ray was a really famous guy in those early days of racing. So it means a lot that he wanted Khalessi on his team. Plessy's first job was to help raise crews fix the engine of his Marmon Wasp. The hot rod should not be confused with the Mormon, it is a wasp that lives in Utah.

He doesn't drink and has a lot of wasp life. The Wasp was a custom-built racer with one of the first designs that focused on aerodynamics. It also had a nice little peace fit called a rearview mirror that completely eliminated the

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for an onboard mechanic to tell Ray if anyone was behind. He, this was something innovative, my babies, Plessy helped make some changes to the engine and the car, and the team set off for Indy and on May 30, 1911, his drove the Wasp to win the first Indy 500 with a little help from a classy kid Cummings, the Columbus farmer, now had a little heat to his name, some spring in his step when he was 30, he saw something that would change not only his life but transportation as well. we knew him.

Four amps Cummins set his sights on. A diesel engine that had been imported by the Dutch engine manufacturer H V ID? Furthermore, he was very impressed with this technology. The diesel engine was invented by Rudolf Diesel in the late 19th century and differed from other engines because it used the high temperature caused by extreme compression to ignite its fuel, making it super efficient. compared to the steam engine Unfortunately, it was only after Rudolph's mysterious death that the engine gained popularity. Plessy contacted the Hood Company and reached a licensing agreement to build the engines in the US so they could sell them a year later.

In 1919, Plessy got some money to start his own business and quickly opened the Cummins Engine Company. At first, Cummings was building diesel engines for stationary applications like water pumps and other agricultural things, but Classi had a broader vision for the diesel engine: he envisioned vehicles like tractors and even road cars could be powered by its engines; This was a revolutionary idea. So to prove that it was really possible, Cummins installed a diesel engine in a 1926 Packard sedan and drove it over 800 miles to New York City, getting an efficiency of 26 miles per gallon like that, it was really impressive at the time. then and also easy.

The next trip would be a little more than 800 miles, General Motors held the

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record in New York to Los Angeles with its gasoline engine completing the journey and 103 hours and 59 minutes and with class it wanted to beat it. And he would do it behind the wheel of a 1931 Cummins diesel-powered cargo truck. He carefully modified a pickup truck to accept one of his engines and hit the road. Plus, he had a team of guys with him. He stopped driving the truck panting. Our trucks might have been faster, but the Cummins were more efficient, so we didn't have to stop for fuel as often.

But it wasn't an easy trip, the brakes failed, the engine overheated and the damn cabin caught fire. But despite all that, the Cummins made the trip in 97 hours and 20 minutes beating GM by six hours and 39 minutes to further prove your point. Plus, he made the same trip again the next year, this time a damn failure and he did it. He drove six hours faster reaching speeds of 65 miles per hour. This was especially impressive because Cummins completed the trip faster than a train could when the interstate system was just an idea. Oh hello I was just eating some ribs oh no this is not a bib this is a donut t-shirt available at donut Mediacom we have tons of different designs like this based on the times I say lightning many times in this series.

Time and time again, this classy guy was proving that diesel worked, but he wasn't done yet. He returned to where he started and brought some diesel-powered racing cars. The first time was in 1931 with a Cummins that changed to Duesenberg. The car finished near the back of the field but completed the entire 500 mile race without stopping, that's really sick and so funny because he knew he wasn't going to win. It's like you, look what I can do. He returned to Andy many times. many times over the next 20 years until finally, in 1952, the special Cummins-powered diesel number 28 qualified on pole position.

The car made over 340 Spurs with its J Series engine, which had been specially modified so that it could run inside the engine sitting on its side. He moved the car's center of gravity closer to the ground and therefore made it drive better. The diesel special was the first turbocharged car to race at Indianapolis and set a track record with an average speed of just over 139 miles for 5 miles per hour faster. that a Ferrari V12 that was racing that day, but unfortunately bad luck hit the car, the diesel special started the race at the front of the pack but fell behind over the course of the race before finally retiring, the team discovered that in addition to venting the turbo was also sucking up a ton of rubber and that's what caused the car to break down, regardless of the loss.

The diesel special gave Cummins a ton of publicity, but it was the last time a diesel car raced at Indy in 1955. Cummins retired from the company He began leaving J Irwin in charge under Jay's leadership the company grew to a breakneck pace in 1956 Cummins opened a factory in Scotland and by the 1960s Cummins had its foot in 98 countries Miller was such a G that in 1968 Esquire magazine suggested he ran for president, people liked at the time Cummins was A powerhouse in the diesel game, its engines were in

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from commercial cargo trucks and heavy-duty tractors to giant generators, but its dream of widespread use on the roads had yet to come true until RAM in the late '70s. , Ford and Chevy were killing the truck game and Dodge felt a little left out.

They needed something that would take them to the forefront of the truck world, something that would leave a mark. Like my dad on my back with his bill in the mid-80s, Dodges were the only non-diesel powered trucks available. Chevy did it first in '78, Ford did it in '83, and Dodge had still done it. It's like you're at a sleepover and I'm doing it Chevy. You've done it? I have done. Of course I have done it then Ford. What about you? You've done it? Yes I do. You

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, I've done it, we know. Oh my god, shut up, Dodge hasn't done it.

I have done. Be quiet. No, you haven't, John, I have Dodge, you haven't. Please don't even try to lie to us. I've done it, I swear, Dodge, be honest, I haven't. OMG Dodge needed to do it and lucky for them Cummins was working on a midsize beauty engine called the B Series and they were looking for a truck to put it in the US, there are four different service classifications for trucks, there is one light, which is your typical truck like a RAM 1500, then there's a medium, which Dooleys usually fall under, then a heavy, which can be pickup trucks and semi-trucks, then they're super heavy, which are basically semi-trucks on steroids.

Anyway, Cummins invited Dodge to come and see his new midsize. The service engine and Dodge liked it over the next few months Cummins and Dodge We are sharing technical data to see if they were, you know, right for each other in 1989. They made it official. Dodge introduced the Cummins-powered Ram with the 5.9-liter 6bt engine. straight-six under the hood generating 160 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of steam, this was unheard of in the truck world. This was a truck with an engine built by Cummins, a world leader in diesel, people freaked out. What made so much power possible was air both Ford and Chevy diesel engines were naturally aspirated.

They didn't have turbos. They couldn't hold all that sweet, sweet air that the engines craved. Series B also had a little secret. It was not designed for trucks. Cummins had actually designed it for medium commercial use, meaning it was oversized. for the RAM But that came at a price: the engine block was made of cast iron and had to be super robust to withstand the high compression that those diesel engines qualify for. As a result, a 6bt weighed over 1,100 pounds in 1996, the 6bt was averaging. 200 Hertz per year and in 2003 Cummins updated the engine with a new 24 valve head.

That means more power, baby, power, baby, okay, power, baby. Well Paul, baby, but power, baby, I got more power and finally in the 2007 and a half model year, Cummins introduced a newer and bigger engine, the 6.7, this behemoth produced 350 horsepower and 650 turkish. Cummins continued to set the bar higher and higher with the current 6.7 that now delivers 365 horsepower, meaning one horse for each day of the year from January 1 to December 31 does not ride the same horse twice. It's a new horse every day. So many beautiful horses, so muscular, so gallant. Ah, look, those guys run so fast and so freely.

I'd sure ride any of those guys. Because the diesels they come with are so incredibly strong that it's pretty easy to tune them to make even more power. People are beefing up their trucks and putting them to good use. It even drags its Cummins-powered trucks that run for nine second quarters. That's absurd. Plessy Cummings passed away in 1968. But his legacy lives on in every truck with a Cummins under the hood, but that's no longer limited to Rams. In 2017, the Nissan Titan XD was offered with a 310-horsepower Cummins v8 turbodiesel. Breaking Cummins' long exclusive agreement with RAM and giving drivers more of those sweet Cummins diesel options for decades, drivers have seen the power of Cummins and now they're getting it in something besides a Dodge for the first time.

It's good to branch out a little Cummins I'm Proud of You Cummins was started by a guy from the Midwest who wanted to follow his passion and do the best he could and took over the industry in the process. He stood his ground. even when it wasn't what other people were doing or didn't even know that was what they wanted and that's why I'm using Meyer and most importantly he broke the subscribe button. We make videos all the time, check out this episode of Wheelhouse and this one. up to speed episode Follow me on Instagram at Chains Pumphrey.

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