LB72004
January 3rd, 2013, 08:47 PM
anyone know if it would be possible to take the wiring harness, ECM, etc and make it work on another engine? not that it would be practical but more of a theoretical exercise
lets say one has an engine like a 8 cylinder Caterpillar or another v8, a machine shop and money burning a hole in his wallet. could the heads be machined (or made from billet) to except some CR injectors, a CP3 pump (or two) and some rails added. i know there will be some sensors like the crank position that may need adapting. then attach the wiring harness and ECM and go
it would probably be a harness and ECM from a marine setup.
i guess one would have to pay particular attention to the firing order of the engine and calibrate the pulse width and timing. it seem to me that the hardest part would be getting some high pressure common rail injectors into the engine.
does this sound possible and if so what kind of advantages would we guess at. quickly tunable from a laptop, high pressure injection, efficiency, throttle response, huge HP...
i would like to see this done to some large engine in a pulling rig with some 500 over injectors that produces 5000+ HP and call it a duramax CAT:rockon:
lets say one has an engine like a 8 cylinder Caterpillar or another v8, a machine shop and money burning a hole in his wallet. could the heads be machined (or made from billet) to except some CR injectors, a CP3 pump (or two) and some rails added. i know there will be some sensors like the crank position that may need adapting. then attach the wiring harness and ECM and go
it would probably be a harness and ECM from a marine setup.
i guess one would have to pay particular attention to the firing order of the engine and calibrate the pulse width and timing. it seem to me that the hardest part would be getting some high pressure common rail injectors into the engine.
does this sound possible and if so what kind of advantages would we guess at. quickly tunable from a laptop, high pressure injection, efficiency, throttle response, huge HP...
i would like to see this done to some large engine in a pulling rig with some 500 over injectors that produces 5000+ HP and call it a duramax CAT:rockon: