21 minutes of pure 8V71 Detroit Music

[@Triplex5014]

What a lovely sounding Detroit! No over exaggerated ear-rape straight pipe sound and revving it to the floor in every gear. Smooth and lovely operation.

[@bobbyearl7145]

This guy can make er sing ,no abuse just letting her eat those are days gone by here in old USA to bad! I started out in 250 cummins then 318 most fun I ever had. 42 yrs ago lol

[@edwardcalvert]

Used to hear the Detroit 8v71 plenty of times while living in Arcadia California. Many of the GMC New Look Fishbowl buses that Southern California Rapid Transit District had were powered by it. My favorite ways to hear the engine is either in the truck straight piped or in the GMC New Look Fishbowl Bus or a Grumman 870.

[@Will-ct9ww]

I work for a towing company that has a GMC 9500 road tractor with a 8v71 Detroit in it and no one likes to drive it because they say it is to loud but I love driving it

[@Will-ct9ww]

Jake I was wondering because I'm from the USA and never drove from the right side is the shift pattern the same for you as it is for me or is it different

[@jakeminogue]

@@Will-ct9ww shift pattern is exactly the same for us down here, just on the other side of you. so reverse is away from me and forward, instead of towards you and forward like you'd be used to. clutch brake and throttle are all in the same positions too, so our throttle is next to the door, instead of in the middle of the truck 😊

[@Will-ct9ww]

@@jakeminogue ok I just wanted to ask

[@JustAGigolo1985]

If I work for any company that owes it's own fleet of trucks with a jimmy somewhere in the mix, I hope everyone has the same reaction. Just means I get dibs on the Detroit lol

[@billythomas5616]

SCORE

[@wazza33racer]

Can only be Australia, no black smoke.......she is in a nice state of tune.

[@edwardcalvert]

Most of the memories I have associated with the sound of the Detroit 8v71 are from when I was ten years old and later and while living in greater Los Angeles area. Used to hear the Detroit 8v71 in many of the GMC New Look Fishbowl buses that were in service with Southern California Rapid Transit District. There was also a truck stop not far from where we lived so I got enjoyment with 8v71 in trucks too but mostly buses. Time after time after time when I heard it I would be happy and smiling.

[@nickzikos8769]

Old school kw with the beasty 8v71 gm fuck brings back memories dad run one Melb -Perth for 20 years

[@kenneth_baker101]

There’s no better sound than a Detroit.

[@jorgebello8914]

Best sound ever. Brings back childhood memories when my dad was driving around the coach buses (MC-7 etc). With the way the RPMs are consistent, this is rocking me to sleep 😅. Who needs a lullaby when you got a Detroit 8V71 😂

[@hoost3056]

I drive truck and my idea of sleeping music are Detroits, V8 Cats and old marine engines.

[@parknlotp.i.m.p]

Imagine being 6 or 7 years old, riding in an Eagle Model 10 near the rear of the bus where the engine is located while the motorcoach operator is rowing through the gears, occasionally grinding as he’s up or downshifting. It was music to my ears. The sound of my childhood. The voice of a bygone era.

[@johnrinehart1280]

Wow that brings back many memories. And that's the way that truck was meant to be driven good driver for sure

[@sjman6064]

8V71's always sound better with a single stack!

[@jeremyclevenger3972]

AH, the 8v Cabover. Loved hearing that sound! Sold mine 2 years ago, after it had been sitting in FLA for 10. When I looked it in it, broke my heart to see condition. Sold it inthe spot, but I see on Google, it may still be there. Mayb

[@dwightcorbett8889]

Awesome this truck is still working and screaming, many trucks a lot newer are sitting in junkyards.

[@hoost3056]

This was when trucks were on 20-25 year life cycles ( or longer ). I had an 84 K100 with a Cummins and a 13 speed. These old schoolers were meant to keep getting rebuilt and sold when you got tired of them.

[@mikewinkelman7015]

Detroit the best sound ever.

[@jamieteal2107]

Yes Mikewinkleman agreed but I love the old EMDs notching up in the old Locos long live the GENERAL 🇦🇺

[@cidertom5140]

What a fantastic soundtrack

[@armcchargues8623]

A busy engine that loves its job. Got that fuel dialed in too - no smoke.

[@hoost3056]

He has small injectors in it, probably standard timing. Detroits over scavenge anyway, so there's a lot of air running through them

[@philipstanbridge6535]

Doesn’t need smoke, he’s not American

[@MikeG42]

Awesome looking truck with a good deadly sound. 👍🏻

[@dwightcorbett8889]

It amazes me that so many classic KWs in Australia have 2 stroke Detroit compared to here in Canada where the majority have Cummins.

[@timothyward7381]

How everything in the usa is cummins or paccar choked down like crazy with emission crap

[@ThriceCalderon]

This helps my ptsd so thank you fellow KZbinr

[@jacudaboy]

worked drilling rigs for years,,, 8-71 for floor motor.. (2) 6-71'S for pump motors.... love the sound

[@cidertom5140]

8v71 not 8-71 which would mean it’s inline. Detroit did do 1,2,3,4,6,-71 series in line also did12 and 16v71.

[@junierallstar]

Sweet sound

[@edwardcalvert]

Sometimes when I hear the Detroit 8v71 I laugh. Sometimes with the sound of it, it reminds me of playing "tug o war" with my dog "Dingo" and when he would growl and snarl he sometimes sounded like a an 8 cylinder two stroke diesel engine in a truck. 😅

[@Lilja2022]

That's exactly the sound that I like. Nice

[@DarrylKing-ur5km]

It's Sad today because Most American Firetrucks Had this same Engine in them.. As A Kid Hearing this Noise,You knew It was A bunch of Power Coming to the Fire scene!

[@thehaze1972]

It would be awsome to sell all my junk and import an early 70's 8V71 or 92 powered W900 and spend the rest of my days just cruisin around here in Sweden... :-) Nice video with just the right sound, thank you very much for sharing and big thumbs up!!

[@gunnut603]

Pete 359 long hood would be even better

[@hoost3056]

This old girl sounds good! I drive a modern with a DD15 and it doesn't have the soul of a stroker. I was first exposed to Detroits back in the early 80s in a Kenworth K100E with a Silver 8V92TA and an Allison auto. Great engines.

[@dwightcorbett8889]

One of my favorite truck videos on KZbin!

[@ruysteinjunior37]

Man, great sound👊👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@johnkonig3715]

Song from my childhood, except it was a SAR

[@ardtessa]

That's music alright!

[@knucklesdafunkeeog6523]

That some Soul Music for ya alright 😎👍🎶

[@bobbyearl7145]

Setting in upstate ny waiting to load taters listening to that music boy what a sound . 😢😊 sure do miss hearing that

[@jameswilliams977]

First truck I drove was a GMC 9500 long hood with a 8v71 and 13 speed. Later most of the ones had 6-71’s with 4x4 twin sticks. Loved the 2strokes with the 4x4’s. Hopefully one day I’ll find one of my own.

[@gmoney1061]

Sweet TRUCK music 🎶 to my ears!! Wish I was behind the wheel!! 🥳🔥😍👍🏾😆🤟🏾😈

[@getomarjayashi4955]

Nice video, love it Just melodies, diesel engine melodies. Not just an ordinary diesel engine, this is a truly legendary engine that build some parts of the world... I'm from Indonesia and I love two-stroke Detroit since 2018. Never met or see one here in Indonesia, but, I'm hoping could bought one or two with the 2-stroke Detroit Diesel in it. The music melody it gives is staggeringly beautiful. If you want something, you gonna have to risk something else, that is what you get when having a 2-stroke DD. You could get beautiful sound, a reliable engine, and good pulling power but on the downside, (sometime) you get oil leaks, poor fuel mileage (mostly), and some angry lads.

[@scottdunn455]

Sounds bloody awesome

[@digthisnz1943]

10 seconds in. 👍🏼 Beautiful music

[@digthisnz1943]

I am a bit Biased as I have a 6-71 as my ring tone.

[@madmilko3507]

orchestra of 8 playing some wonderful classical music

[@Produce9AE]

Donaldson truck mufflers were the go back in the day to get that sound. The 453's with only the blower & no turbo running a Donaldson 'suburban' muffler gave an even better sound again ,but you were down on torque. If you ran the 'highway' version of that muffler you got the sound your getting from that Kenny ,which is music to the ears & brings back memories. I've seen one of those 8V's with a set of headers custom made as you can run extractors on a 4 stroke diesel ,man ya need fuckin' earmuffs !!!

[@gonzalezgarciasergio562]

Te felicito! hermano sabemos de antemano que este video no es para cualquier persona.. se puede decir que para mucha gente seria aburrido o no tener sentido pero para los que tenemos diesel en la sangre! Es otro cosa. Ese sonido de motor de la 8 V 71 me lleva al recuerdo en infancia de padre.. te felicito por tu video de hecho lo descargue y nunca me canso de oírlo.. te puedo de asta me regala... yo también soy camionero. 👍👍👍👍✌️✌️✌️✌️

[@urk5204]

Before I saw that this was Australia, I really thought this was rural California. You even got in the truck on the left side. Anyway, it's pretty insane how much this part of Australia looks like my part of California, although I'd be hard pressed to find a place this flat here

[@georgeadams1955]

The bluegum trees are a give-away, and driving on the LHS of the road. Regards from South Africa.

[@nicktrask4717]

Sick bro

[@scottdunn455]

Sounds bloody awesome don't u just love sound of old gm

[@ronniehinton589]

She would bring you and carry you nothing like.em

[@vicpetrishak7705]

A 5 gallon bucket full of tools could overhaul any 2 stroke Detroit . The trick was the tune up , after starting 3 lopes of idle into smoothness .

[@villainjohnnoel8075]

Hi from France, yeah i grew up in Australia with 'gemmies',the 671,the 6V71,8V71 then came out the '92 séries,but to be honest i'd have a hard time driving one now (no offense meant),the gear these days is just so quiet and confortable.That said,it's with great pleasure that i watched this video,changing gears here is a thing of the past,not too many blokes here would know how to use a Roadranger,most transport companies here no longer have manual gearbox's in their fleets.I'd love to know the fuel consumption of an 8V71 and the décibels. Great little video.

[@andrewking4885]

I grew up around trucks when I was a kid as my father had a single drive half sleeper Atkinson with a 6-71 10 speed overdrive, 4.11 Rockwell diff. A natural 8V71 can get between 4 and 6 mpg depending on the driver. I worked for a guy that had this engine in with a turbo on each side and go real good up hills too.

[@villainjohnnoel8075]

@@andrewking4885 thanks for that,the mob i work for drive me nuts with their fuel consumption figures,I'll just try to convert from MPG,to litres per 100 kms be interesting to see.

[@villainjohnnoel8075]

Well 8mpg= 29.41 l/100kms (exellent) 6mpg =39.21 l/100 kms (they'd kill me) 4mpg = 58.82 l/100kms (i'd get put back on training). Personally,with my little 460 Renault, single drive, pulling a petrol tanker (44 tonnes) half my mileage is empty,i'm at about 30l/100kms.

[@andrewking4885]

@@villainjohnnoel8075 I take your towing a tri-axle tanker at 44 tonnes as a guess. Actually 6mpg used to be the benchmark for economy. Scania seem to be the most fuel efficient of diesel engines and the price is climbing all the time @ about $2:40 per litre. There's in cab footage of a twin turbo V12 Detroit called "Seattle 🌟 Star Kenworth". That truck was getting 4.5- 5mpg with unreal power. Cheers from Australia.

[@spacejunkgarage9771]

Lol😂 ,I couldn't drive the new junk ! I'd fall asleep, I LOVE to shift gears and really hear and be part of the truck

[@thisisyourcaptainspeaking]

Love this content. Would be cool if you had a camera in the truck as well. Thanks for the post.

[@moose6144]

Just bought myself a ford WT 9000 with the 8V 71 in it. The interior needs to be done but everything is still intact right down to the cigarette lighter the original stereo this is going to be easy fix and boy will it ever look nice once I’m all done.

[@mernyr]

I wish they still made these old 2 stroke engines.

[@greglewis1146]

i was early into the vid i was thinking that country looks like round numurkah, seen the old shell and i was right

[@fancyandrikurniawan5651]

The sound of the happy toys hauler's diesel engine from maximum overdrive

[@jonnothetrucker]

Down near Shepp ! Tally takeaway 😊

[@dennyalfro9832]

Bro can you do indoor drive with clutching and shifting

[@mattmatty4670]

Cool thanks mate

[@BonheurEsperer]

You don't get that melody on new "trucks"

[@gatonetwork1788]

Love it 😤💪

[@gsd4me00]

I haven't had much to do with 2 stroke Detroits, what are the usual high and low rev ranges? Do you have to keep them on the boil or can you lug them down?

[@jakeminogue]

This one is naturally aspirated, I think high idle on the govenor is about 2200rpm. it starts to pull from about 1750rpm up to about 2100rpm, its happy cruising at about 1900rpm at 93km/h. when you're loaded you really need to rev it out to atleast 2000rpm or it will fall on its face a bit when you grab the next gear. I can't speak for how the turbo or 92 series detroit go through!

[@danielseelye6005]

They're called "Screamin' Jimmies" for a reason. The rule of thumb is before you get to driving, slam the door on your fingers to piss you off and/or drive it like it owes you money. They don't like being lugged down.

[@hoost3056]

The naturally aspirated Detroits have to be spun and worked hard, the turbo models were a lot better. You can't lug them or idle them for too long, got to keep them busy. If you want an engine that was a little more easy going go with a big block Cummins or Cat.

[@russellking9762]

Love it bro ....what is the most weight you have ever puled with it including trailer?.....in tons

[@SlavJerry]

noice

[@8bunker]

mmmmmm waouw ❤❤❤ open pipe sound v8

[@marktchild8788]

Just beautiful music to the ears, but some sick f##$ at KZbin goes and puts an electric lawnmower ad in it, they definitely don’t have a man card

[@Rickyk878]

Is this left hand drive

[@jakeminogue]

Right hand drive, the passenger set up the camera

[@Rickyk878]

@@jakeminogue oh righto cheers

[@billythomas5616]

Wow, someone that doesn't abuse a jimmy.

[@TheMarshy-wb7wu]

Fuckin nice mate!

[@HyperVerda]

Can someone tell me what this is?

[@danielseelye6005]

Sweet Music. If you want more info, check the description.

[@houstonbrown3450]

How about a Detroit parade at least 100 or more ,just an idea great video

[@entreesonmaincourse]

es COMO SI ESTUVIERAS DENTRO DE UN TEPSA

[@robbierenfro7209]

Hey look it's Optimus Prime!

[@lyleware2479]

Better than a75 piece orchestra!

[@wreckerjonny6144]

Let the freedom ring

[@TheOriginalgangsta38]

Big screaming jimmy

[@vukiwilson5737]

A lot more enjoyable if he knew how to drive that baby, right up against the governor but he lugs it and shifts way to late

[@jakeminogue]

Jump in your truck and show us how it's done then?