Alright Guys,
I know that this isn't the truckers forum, but I got to get up close and personal with International's newest engine platform today and it was quite interesting. The Maxxforce 13 is a 410-475 hp big bore 4 cycle diesel that has excellent manners. It's a twin turbo (low load and high load engagement) with 4 valves/cylinder, EGR, DOC and DPF emissions components which hauls like a mofo. The 475 pulled the mountain foothills like nothing was there and was so quiet at idle that I thought it was a gasser.
Now for the oil porn...the sump is roughly 45 quarts and uses a cartridge style filtration set-up...pretty cool for class 8. API CJ-4 is specifieded with 25,000 mile OCI's. Fuel filtration follows suit with cartridge style injection. Running >5% biodiesel jeopardizes your warranty per international's prose. It's a common rail injection system with about a 25,000psi injector tip off. All and all it was pretty sweet and put the ISX to shame with it's street manners and ease of lubrication. The only drawback I see is the fact that finding a coolant or exhaust leak on this bad boy would take forever due to the snaking that each respectively takes around the engine compartment. We'll be measuring fuel economy over the next few months, but this is a good showing so far.
I know that this isn't the truckers forum, but I got to get up close and personal with International's newest engine platform today and it was quite interesting. The Maxxforce 13 is a 410-475 hp big bore 4 cycle diesel that has excellent manners. It's a twin turbo (low load and high load engagement) with 4 valves/cylinder, EGR, DOC and DPF emissions components which hauls like a mofo. The 475 pulled the mountain foothills like nothing was there and was so quiet at idle that I thought it was a gasser.
Now for the oil porn...the sump is roughly 45 quarts and uses a cartridge style filtration set-up...pretty cool for class 8. API CJ-4 is specifieded with 25,000 mile OCI's. Fuel filtration follows suit with cartridge style injection. Running >5% biodiesel jeopardizes your warranty per international's prose. It's a common rail injection system with about a 25,000psi injector tip off. All and all it was pretty sweet and put the ISX to shame with it's street manners and ease of lubrication. The only drawback I see is the fact that finding a coolant or exhaust leak on this bad boy would take forever due to the snaking that each respectively takes around the engine compartment. We'll be measuring fuel economy over the next few months, but this is a good showing so far.
