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Engine Specific Info and Questions => Non VW Group Diesel => Topic started by: madrogers on June 13, 2009, 08:08:52 pm

Title: $25,000.00 smashed with a sledge hammer and cut up with a torch.
Post by: madrogers on June 13, 2009, 08:08:52 pm

Got to work on thursday and my first job was to destroy a test engine we had in one company Kenworths it had about 150,000 kms on it it was pulled and a new test engine installed . It ran great but a updated version came out . so it had to be wrecked they had pics of that was to be cut and smashed. I almost cryed. now it is worth about .04 cents a pound, or $160.00 bucks in scrap .

Title: Re: $25,000.00 smashed with a sledge hammer and cut up with a torch.
Post by: jtanguay on June 13, 2009, 10:26:30 pm

yea... better not let that 'secret' technology get in the wrong hands!!!  ::)

Title: Re: $25,000.00 smashed with a sledge hammer and cut up with a torch.
Post by: Patrick on June 14, 2009, 03:29:11 am

Test engines don't always make it to the scrap pile. I once saw (back in the 80's when I was still trucking)3 turbo diesel slant 6 dodge engines, part of a test of 25 engines that dodge did back before they made a deal with cummins. Don't know how this guy got his hands on them, or what he ever did with them........... One had seen a sledge hammer (busted the custom cast intake) but the other two were still complete.