Dodge's were the only pickup trucks without a diesel engine available by the mid 80s. Chevy did it first in '78, Ford did it in '83 and Dodge had yet to do it. It's like you're at a sleepover and I've done it. 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 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 were 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 torque. This was unheard of in the truck world.
This was a pickup with an engine built by Cummins, a world leader in diesel engines. 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.
As a result, a 6BT weighed over 1,100 pounds by 1996, the 6BT was making 200 horsepower per cylinder in 2003 Cummins updated the engine with a new 24 valve head. That means more power, baby, Power baby well, 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 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 taking it to the drag strip, even their Cummins powered trucks that run nine-second quarters.
That's absurd. Plessy Cummins 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 gun even when it wasn't what other people were doing or even knew 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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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enYeah, I got the RAM 2500long bed, blew the Five-9, swapped in a Six-SevenIt's got big injectors, big turbo, got the TUNE, naturallyDang 'thang makes 600 horsepower seventeen hundred thousand torques.I can tow a dang church, run five to the Ohio ValleyMost importantlyIT 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 workEven though I was 19 when the game came out.Anyway!Clessie was fascinated with engineering and anything mechanicaland 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 backyardI'd let him do whatever he wanted.I probably will anyway, because I plan on being a lazy parent.A few years laterClessie left the farm and became a full-time mechanicHe must have been pretty good because when he was 23 a racer named ray her ownAsked him to join his team as a mechanic ray was one of America's pioneer racersHe set the chicago to new york speed record in both1903 and1904 ray was a really famous guy in those early days of racing. So it means a lot that he wantedKhalessi for his team plessy's first job was to help raise teams sort out the engine in his Marmon waspRace car not to be confused with the Mormon was it's a wasp that lives in, UtahIt doesn't drink and has a lot of wasp life. The wasp was a custom-built racer with one of the first designsThat was ever focused on aerodynamicsIt also had a nice little peace attack called a rear view mirrorWhich totally eliminated the need for an onboard mechanic to tell ray if there was anyone behind himThis was some groundbreakingStuff my babesPlessy helped make some changes to the engine and car and the team set off for Indy and on May 30th1911 ray her own drove the wasp to win the first-ever Indy 500 with a little help from a boyclassy Cummings the farm boy fromColumbus now had a little heat on his name some strut in his step when he was 30 years oldhe saw something that would change not only his life butTransportation as we knew it four amps Cummins laid his eyes on a diesel engineWhich had been imported by Dutch engine maker H V ID?Have it have it of itplus he wasvery impressed with this technologyThe diesel engine was invented by Rudolf diesel in the late1800s and was different from other engines because it used the high temperature caused by extreme compressionTo ignite its fuel making it super efficient compared to the steam engineUnfortunately, it was only after Rudolph'sMysterious death that see that the engine gained popularity Plessy got in contact with the hoodCompany and worked out a licensing agreement to build the engines in the US so he could sell them a year later in1919 Plessy got some money to start his own companyAnd he promptly opened up Cummins engine company at first Cummings was building Diesel's for stationary applicationsLike water pumps and other farm stuff, but classi had a bigger vision for the dieselEngine he imagined vehicles like tractors and even road cars could bePowered by his engines this was kind of a revolutionary idea. So to prove that it was actually possibleCummins installed a diesel engine into a1926 Packard sedan and drove the thing over 800 miles to New York City getting 26 miles per gallonefficiency like that wasReally impressive back then plus easeNext drive would be a little further than 800 milesgeneral motors held in New York to LA speed record with their gas engine completing the drive and103 hours and 59 minutes and classy wanted to beatAnd he would do it behind the wheel of a diesel-poweredCargo truck in 1931 Cummins carefully modified a truck to accept one of his engines and got on the roadPlus he had a team of dudes with him. He switched off driving the truck gaspedOur trucks might have been faster, but the Cummins were more efficient, so it didn't have to stop for fuel as oftenBut it wasn't an easy drive the brakes failed the engine overheated and the freaking cabin caught fireBut despite all that the Cummins made the trip in97 hours and 20 minutes beating GM by six hours and 39 minutes to further prove his pointPlus he did the same drive again the next year this time in a friggin bust and he did the drivesix hours faster reaching speeds of 65 miles an hourThis was especially impressive because the CumminsCompleted the trip faster than a train could back when the interstate system was just an idea. OhHello, I was just having some prime rib, oh this no it's not a bib it's a doughnut shirt available at donutMediacom we have tons of different designs like this one based on the times when I say lightning a bunch of times in this seriestime after timeThis classy dude was proving that Diesel worked, but he still wasn't doneHe went back to where he got his start and he brought some diesel-powered racecars with themThe first time was in 1931 with a Cummins swapped Duesenberg the car finished near the back of the pack but accomplished the entire500-mile race withoutStopping that's really really sick and really really funny cuz he knew he wasn't gonna winHe's just like you look what I can doHe went back to Andy many many times over the next 20 years until finally in1952 the Cummins powered number 28 diesel special qualified on pole positionthe car made over340 her Spurs from its J Series engine which had been specially modifiedSo that it could run on inside the sitting sideways motor heldBring the car center of gravity closer to the ground and thus it made it drive betterthe diesel special was the firstTurbocharged car to run at Indianapolis and set a track record for an average speed of just over139 miles per 5 miles an hour faster than a V12 Ferrari that was running that day, but unfortunatelyBad luck would strike the car the diesel special started the race at the front of the packBut fell behind over the course of the race before finally getting retired the team found that besides airthe turbo wasalso sucking in a ton of rubber and that's what made the car break down regardless of the loss the diesel special gave Cummins aTon of publicity, but it was the last time a diesel car ever ran at Indy in1955 plessy Cummins retired from the companyHe started leaving J Irwin in charge under Jays leadership the company grew at a lightning pace in1956 Cummins opened a factory in Scotland and by the 60s Cummins had their foot in98 countries Miller was such a G that in 1968 Esquire magazine suggested that he run for president peopleLiked him by this timeCummins was a powerhouse in the diesel game their engines were in everything from commercial cargo trucks and heavy-dutytractors to giant generators, but plessis dream of mainstream road use had yet to come true untilRAMBy 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 markJust like my dad on my back with his bill by the mid 80s Dodge's were the only pickup trucks without a diesel engine availableChevy did it first in '78, Ford did it in '83 and Dodge had done it yetIt's like you're at a sleepover and I've done it Chevy. Have you done it? I've done it. Of courseI've done it then Ford. What about you? Have you done it? Yeah, I've done it. You know, I've done it we knowOh my god, you guys shut upDodge hasn't done it. I've done it. Oh shut up. No, you haven't John I haveDodge you have not done it. Please don't even try to lie to us. I've done it I swearDodge be honest, I haven't done it. Oh my godDodge needed to do it and lucky for themCummins was working on a medium beauty engine called the B Series and they were looking for a truck to put it in in theUS there are four different duty ratings for trucksthere's light which is your typical pickup like a RAM 1500 then there'smedium which Dooley's typically fall under then heavy which can be box trucks and semis then they'reSuper heavy which are basically semis on steroidsAnyway Cummins invited Dodge to come on over and check out their newMedium duty engine and dodge liked it over the next few months Cummins and DodgeWe're sharing technical data seeing if they were you know, right for each other then in 1989. They made it officialDodge unveiled the Cummins powered Ram with the 5.9 liter6bt straight-6 under the hood making 160 horsepower and400 foot pounds of turks this was unheard of the truck worldThis was a pickup with an engine built by Cummins a world leader in diesel people freaked outWhat made this much power possible was air both Ford and Chevy's diesels were naturally aspirated. They didn't have turbosThey couldn't pack it all that sweet sweet air that the engines craved the b-series also had a little secretWasn't designed for pickupsCummins had really designed it for medium commercial use meaning it was over engineered for the RAMBut that came at a price the engine block was made of cast iron and had to be super beefy to handle the highCompression that those diesel engines grade as a result a 6bt weighed over1,100 pounds by 1996 the 6bt was making a mean 200 Hertz per and in2003 Cummins updated the engine with a new 24 valve head. That means more power, babyPower baby well power baby. Well Paul, baby, but power babyI got more powerandfinally in the model year of 2007 and a half Cummins introduced a newer bigger engine the6.7 this behemoth made350 horse pours and650 Turks Cummins kept setting the bar higher and higher with the current 6.7 now making365 horsepower that's a horse for every day of the year from January 1 to December31 you don't ride the same horse twice. That's a new horse every day. So many beautiful horsesSo muscular so gallant. AhLook at those guys run so fast so freeI'd ride any single one of those dudes for sureBecause coming Diesel's are so freakin strongit's pretty easy to tune them to make even more power people are beefing up their trucks and take it theDragstrip even their Cummins powered trucks that run nine second quartersThat's absurd Plessy Cummings passed away in 1968But his legacy lives on in every truck with a Cummins under the hood, but that isn't limited to Rams anymore in2017 the Nissan Titan XD was offered with a 310 horsepower Cummins v8 turbo-dieselBreaking from Cummins long exclusive deal with RAM and giving drivers more of those sweet Cummins dieseloptions for decades now drivers have seen the power ofCummins and now they get it in something besides a Dodge for the first time. It's good to branch out a little bit CumminsI'm proud of you Cummins was started by a Midwest dude who wanted to follow his passion and make the best stuffHe possibly could and he took over the industry in the processHe stuck to his gunseven when it wasn't what other people were doing or even know that that's what they wanted andThat's why I'm using it Meyer and most importantly he smashed that subscribe buttonWe make videos all the time check out this episode of wheelhouse and this episode of up to speedFollow me on instagram at chains Pumphrey. Do you buy the merch there's a link in my bio. I love you
