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As I recall, DD may have worked with GM corporate briefly on the 6.2, but the
design was not by DD. The 6.2 was certainly not made by Detroit as they simply
didn't have the capacity for such a high volume and small engine. Most of the
problems I have heard of with the 6.2 is due to injector pump problems and a lack
of HP. Why exactly did GM stop making the 6.5? I heard many complaints about
that engine, but nothing definitive.
Dave
(Ex GM Engineer)
jonathon wrote:
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> >... GM has been building Detroit Diesels "since time began", so they
> >already had a foothold in that market. (Ya know, you'd think they would
> >have had better sense when they introduced those sorry converted 350 gas
> >engines-this poisoned the diesel market and it still has not fully recovered
> >from that escapade and put diesel engines years behind ESP when the market
> >was ready for them then)
>
> As I understand the 6.2 was not a product of DDA, but GM tried to make it
> appear as such. I have sales brochures (aimed at the military market) from
> the early hmmv days for the 6.2 and it is clearly implied as being a DDA
> product. I think they thought they could ride along on DDA's coat tails but
> I don't think it worked. They seem to have dropped that marketing plan some
> time after that.
>
> If anyone would like to see the brochure, I could scan it (assuming I can
> find it again)
>
> je
>
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