6.5 military surplus engine
I was at an antique engine show yesterday and a fellow there was selling new 6.5 mil. surplus engines. I'm needing a new engine for my '93 Chevy 2500 2wd, and at $2500, these are considerably cheaper than other sources I've looked up. I asked him if his 6.5 engines had the NA comp. ratio or the turbo comp. ratio and he insisted they were set up for turbo operation. Has anybody had any experience with one of these mil. surplus engines or knows what other identifying characteristics I can check to see if it's an NA engine? I seem to remember the comp. ratio on my old '85 6.2 was 21 to 1, and on my '93 6.5 TD it's 19 to 1. What block casting numbers should I look for and where are they located? Any help would be appreciated.
6.5 military surplus engine
Thanks for your time, Robyn. Just exactly the information I was looking for. Particularly the block casting numbers and location.:)
6.5 military surplus engine
The fellow selling the mil. surplus engines said the military was pulling the NA 6.5's out of vehicles, (I'm assuming the HMMWV's), and installing 6.5 TD engines. The new ones he has are spares that were no longer needed. Said he had some rebuilt NA 6.2's also.
6.5 military surplus engine
???? First time I'd ever met the guy, and yeah, maybe he's a BS artist. The engine on display had all the looks of a new factory engine and was sitting in the bottom half of an olive drab military looking shipping container. Anyhow, I've got to head back overseas to work for 4 wks. and will go over to his place when I get back. He's just right over in the next county. He said he had 15 6.5's available and would put one of them on the dyno and run it for me before we made any deals. He can do the R&R of my old engine with his new one also. I won't have time to fool with it, but am very careful before laying down that kind of money. I'll post here how this thing comes out when I get back home. Thanks for all the input.