Yeah, I got the RAM 2500
long bed, blew the Five-9, swapped in a Six-Seven
It's got big injectors, big turbo, got the TUNE, naturally
Dang 'thang makes 600 horsepower seventeen hundred thousand torques.
I can tow a dang church, run five to the Ohio Valley
Most importantly
IT ROLLS COAL!!!!!!
This is everything you need to know to get up to speed on Cummins.
Okay, let me ask you something.
What's the most successful diesel engine ever?
That's right, Cummins.
Clessie Lyle Cummins was a simple farm boy born in Columbus, Indiana in 1888.
His parents were farmers and such.
Clessie toiled on the family farm from a young age.
I can relate.
My dad made me farm for gold on his World of Warcraft account while he was at work
Even though I was 19 when the game came out.
Anyway!
Clessie was fascinated with engineering and anything mechanical
and apparently he built a steam engine when he was like 11 years old.
After graduating eighth grade Clessie quit school to focus on the farm.
Honestly, if my kid built a freaking engine in our backyard
I'd let him do whatever he wanted.
I probably will anyway, because I plan on being a lazy parent.
A few years later
Clessie left the farm and became a full-time mechanic
He must have been pretty good because when he was 23 a racer named ray her own
Asked him to join his team as a mechanic ray was one of America's pioneer racers
He set the chicago to new york speed record in both
1903 and
1904 ray was a really famous guy in those early days of racing. So it means a lot that he wanted
Khalessi for his team plessy's first job was to help raise teams sort out the engine in his Marmon wasp
Race car not to be confused with the Mormon was it's a wasp that lives in, Utah
It doesn't drink and has a lot of wasp life. The wasp was a custom-built racer with one of the first designs
That was ever focused on aerodynamics
It also had a nice little peace attack called a rear view mirror
Which totally eliminated the need for an onboard mechanic to tell ray if there was anyone behind him
This was some groundbreaking
Stuff my babes
Plessy helped make some changes to the engine and car and the team set off for Indy and on May 30th
1911 ray her own drove the wasp to win the first-ever Indy 500 with a little help from a boy
classy Cummings the farm boy from
Columbus now had a little heat on his name some strut in his step when he was 30 years old
he saw something that would change not only his life but
Transportation as we knew it four amps Cummins laid his eyes on a diesel engine
Which had been imported by Dutch engine maker H V ID?
Have it have it of it
plus he was
very impressed with this technology
The diesel engine was invented by Rudolf diesel in the late
1800s and was different from other engines because it used the high temperature caused by extreme compression
To ignite its fuel making it super efficient compared to the steam engine
Unfortunately, it was only after Rudolph's
Mysterious death that see that the engine gained popularity Plessy got in contact with the hood
Company and worked out a licensing agreement to build the engines in the US so he could sell them a year later in
1919 Plessy got some money to start his own company
And he promptly opened up Cummins engine company at first Cummings was building Diesel's for stationary applications
Like water pumps and other farm stuff, but classi had a bigger vision for the diesel
Engine he imagined vehicles like tractors and even road cars could be
Powered by his engines this was kind of a revolutionary idea. So to prove that it was actually possible
Cummins installed a diesel engine into a
1926 Packard sedan and drove the thing over 800 miles to New York City getting 26 miles per gallon
efficiency like that was
Really impressive back then plus ease
Next drive would be a little further than 800 miles
general motors held in New York to LA speed record with their gas engine completing the drive and
103 hours and 59 minutes and classy wanted to beat
And he would do it behind the wheel of a diesel-powered
Cargo truck in 1931 Cummins carefully modified a truck to accept one of his engines and got on the road
Plus he had a team of dudes with him. He switched off driving the truck gasped
Our trucks might have been faster, but the Cummins were more efficient, so it didn't have to stop for fuel as often
But it wasn't an easy drive the brakes failed the engine overheated and the freaking cabin caught fire
But despite all that the Cummins made the trip in
97 hours and 20 minutes beating GM by six hours and 39 minutes to further prove his point
Plus he did the same drive again the next year this time in a friggin bust and he did the drive
six hours faster reaching speeds of 65 miles an hour
This was especially impressive because the Cummins
Completed the trip faster than a train could back when the interstate system was just an idea. Oh
Hello, I was just having some prime rib, oh this no it's not a bib it's a doughnut shirt available at donut
Mediacom we have tons of different designs like this one based on the times when I say lightning a bunch of times in this series
time after time
This classy dude was proving that Diesel worked, but he still wasn't done
He went back to where he got his start and he brought some diesel-powered racecars with them
The first time was in 1931 with a Cummins swapped Duesenberg the car finished near the back of the pack but accomplished the entire
500-mile race without
Stopping that's really really sick and really really funny cuz he knew he wasn't gonna win
He's just like you look what I can do
He went back to Andy many many times over the next 20 years until finally in
1952 the Cummins powered number 28 diesel special qualified on pole position
the car made over
340 her Spurs from its J Series engine which had been specially modified
So that it could run on inside the sitting sideways motor held
Bring the car center of gravity closer to the ground and thus it made it drive better
the diesel special was the first
Turbocharged car to run at Indianapolis and set a track record for an average speed of just over
139 miles per 5 miles an hour faster than a V12 Ferrari that was running that day, but unfortunately
Bad luck would strike the car the diesel special started the race at the front of the pack
But fell behind over the course of the race before finally getting retired the team found that besides air
the turbo was
also sucking in a ton of rubber and that's what made the car break down regardless of the loss the diesel special gave Cummins a
Ton of publicity, but it was the last time a diesel car ever ran at Indy in
1955 plessy Cummins retired from the company
He started leaving J Irwin in charge under Jays leadership the company grew at a lightning pace in
1956 Cummins opened a factory in Scotland and by the 60s Cummins had their foot in
98 countries Miller was such a G that in 1968 Esquire magazine suggested that he run for president people
Liked him by this time
Cummins was a powerhouse in the diesel game their engines were in everything from commercial cargo trucks and heavy-duty
tractors to giant generators, but plessis dream of mainstream road use had yet to come true until
RAM
By the late 70s Ford and Chevy were killing the pickup truck game and Dodge felt a little left out.
They needed something that would bring them to the forefront of the truck world something that would leave a mark
Just like my dad on my back with his bill by the mid 80s Dodge's were the only pickup trucks without a diesel engine available
Chevy did it first in '78, Ford did it in '83 and Dodge had done it yet
It's like you're at a sleepover and I've done it Chevy. Have you done it? I've done it. Of course
I've done it then Ford. What about you? Have you done it? Yeah, I've done it. You know, I've done it we know
Oh my god, you guys shut up
Dodge hasn't done it. I've done it. Oh shut up. No, you haven't John I have
Dodge you have not done it. Please don't even try to lie to us. I've done it I swear
Dodge be honest, I haven't done it. Oh my god
Dodge needed to do it and lucky for them
Cummins was working on a medium beauty engine called the B Series and they were looking for a truck to put it in in the
US there are four different duty ratings for trucks
there's light which is your typical pickup like a RAM 1500 then there's
medium which Dooley's typically fall under then heavy which can be box trucks and semis then they're
Super heavy which are basically semis on steroids
Anyway Cummins invited Dodge to come on over and check out their new
Medium duty engine and dodge liked it over the next few months Cummins and Dodge
We're sharing technical data seeing if they were you know, right for each other then in 1989. They made it official
Dodge unveiled the Cummins powered Ram with the 5.9 liter
6bt straight-6 under the hood making 160 horsepower and
400 foot pounds of turks this was unheard of the truck world
This was a pickup with an engine built by Cummins a world leader in diesel people freaked out
What made this much power possible was air both Ford and Chevy's diesels were naturally aspirated. They didn't have turbos
They couldn't pack it all that sweet sweet air that the engines craved the b-series also had a little secret
Wasn't designed for pickups
Cummins had really designed it for medium commercial use meaning it was over engineered for the RAM
But that came at a price the engine block was made of cast iron and had to be super beefy to handle the high
Compression that those diesel engines grade as a result a 6bt weighed over
1,100 pounds by 1996 the 6bt was making a mean 200 Hertz per and in
2003 Cummins updated the engine with a new 24 valve head. That means more power, baby
Power baby well power baby. Well Paul, baby, but power baby
I got more power
and
finally in the model year of 2007 and a half Cummins introduced a newer bigger engine the
6.7 this behemoth made
350 horse pours and
650 Turks Cummins kept setting the bar higher and higher with the current 6.7 now making
365 horsepower that's a horse for every day of the year from January 1 to December
31 you don't ride the same horse twice. That's a new horse every day. So many beautiful horses
So muscular so gallant. Ah
Look at those guys run so fast so free
I'd ride any single one of those dudes for sure
Because coming Diesel's are so freakin strong
it's pretty easy to tune them to make even more power people are beefing up their trucks and take it the
Dragstrip even their Cummins powered trucks that run nine second quarters
That's absurd Plessy Cummings passed away in 1968
But his legacy lives on in every truck with a Cummins under the hood, but that isn't limited to Rams anymore in
2017 the Nissan Titan XD was offered with a 310 horsepower Cummins v8 turbo-diesel
Breaking from Cummins long exclusive deal with RAM and giving drivers more of those sweet Cummins diesel
options for decades now drivers have seen the power of
Cummins and now they get it in something besides a Dodge for the first time. It's good to branch out a little bit Cummins
I'm proud of you Cummins was started by a Midwest dude who wanted to follow his passion and make the best stuff
He possibly could and he took over the industry in the process
He stuck to his guns
even when it wasn't what other people were doing or even know that that's what they wanted and
That's why I'm using it Meyer and most importantly he smashed that subscribe button
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