..2-stroke Detroit's are fun to play with, but they're hopelessly obsolete as a commercial option. The fuel mileage is too low, and they're almost impossible to clean up sufficiently to pass smoke-emission standards for commercial use...
Jerry
Yes, fun to play with.
But I take offense to the other bits
Not obsolete, I think we'd all be surprised by the number of Detroit two cycles still running and making money today. As an example a friend of mine runs a big farm and was recently tasked with finding a tandem axle tractor to haul their product, first on his list was as new a truck as he could get with an 8V92T DDEC, and looked at several mid to late 80's trucks. But not a happy ending... for only a few thousand more they bought a nice 10 year newer KW with a big cat.. Detroits may not keep up on the road with new trucks, but I would say far from obsolete, and the later model 2 cycle trucks seem to hold value better than somewhat newer trucks without two cycles.
In fact
the military still buys new ones and plans to through 2050! . and another
article about new military two cycles. About the almost impossible to clean up emissions.. Not entirely true,
Have a look at this solutionThe contact person listed on that site, Don Fairchild, frequents the Detroit Diesel Yahoo group
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/DetroitDiesel/I expect you'll find a lot of your answers on Detroits there.
Also look at this site for Detroit info
http://www.4btswaps.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=28Grigg
