Where would we be without camera phones eh? Biglorryblog's blogging co-evil Ollie Dixon (he of 'World Truck Blog' fame on www.roadtransport.com) is currently over at the Mid America Truck Show and has just sent me these 'scoop' shots from the Cummins press conference which has just taken place. And straight out the trap is this shot of the all-new 11.9-litre EPA10 compliant ISX straight-six engine rated at 440hp and with a hefty 2,238Nm of torque (that's 1,650lbft in US money). Ollie tells me it shares a lot of its DNA (which I assume stands for 'diesel nice attitibutes') with the 13-litre Cummins engine that the famous US engine manufacturer builds in China for Dong Feng. Only don't be fooled. The 11.9-litre is very much a North American market product for over-the-road 'vocational' trucks and will be manufactured at Cummins' Jamestown plant in up-state New York. It's a low emission engie that's fully EPA10 compliant and comes with the VG single stage turbo and SCR emission contro system. Ollie also reckons it's got the XPI high-pressure fuelling injection which Cummins has jointly developed with Scania....No doubt he'll tell us all about it in his report for Commercial Motor and on his own World Truck Blog. Meanwhile, click through here for more Cummins news from Ollie....
This is the ISX15 15-litre --also ready for EPA10 and again equipped with SCR. The ISX15 has a 600hp rating and a throbby 2,780Nm of torque (2,050lbft in US dollars) and injection pressures of around 2250bar so Ollie tells me. And I'm grafetul to the well-spoken gentleman from Cummins who had Ollie's phone thrust into his hand and told to talk to Biglorryblog about both these engines!
Of course it would be nice to think that we might one day see either of these power units in Europe although I suspect that the ISX15 stands the best chance. Now I wonder which European truck maker might need a 'big banger' pretty much ready made for Euro-6? Ollie has his own theory--so I won't spoil it for him. Just make sure you read his report in Commercial Motor and on World Truck Blog.
Could it be Daf that might be in need of that big Cummins.
I have to wonder why they decided to make the USA version at 12L, rather than 13L of the nearly identical ISZ? Maybe they wanted minimal power overlap with the ISX. I assume most of the parts are coming from China.