Cummins Drift Truck a la Dum-Dum

[Dum-Dum]

Reckon you'll be fitting a commercial battery? Think you'll find the standard one will poo itself if you go 12V starter.

When do you actually start building it then?

I'll actually start building it as and when I have an engine.
As for a commercial battery everyone keeps saying that the starting power is going to destroy stuff but nobody can refute the maths that show it's only 333amps to start it.

why not run 24v in the starter and 12v on the car via a second non charging battery then every couple of days swap the batterys over to charge?
im sure it wont be a daily use car

It won't be a daily and I certainly won't be driving it to work (london low emissions zone £ra*e) but constantly swapping batteries about sounds like a right pain in the arse, it's also cost of second battery and a load of extra leads.

Bit over defensive but whatever, space isn't really an issue its a pickup, how is the wiring to complicated when Darren's already done it himself and has told you how to do it?, and cheaper yes 12v24v switch 130 plus battery 100 is 230, you've been quoted between 300 and 400.

Can't see why you'd be messing about getting one rewound when a LRB 381 Transit alternator fits with the vac pump on the back of it and 12v starter from a daf 45 non turbo fits with 10mm of spacing out.

And yes you've done your maths but if you think that 500 cca are goin to turn a cummin 6bt at a decent pace then obviously it isn't me that's not in reality

Yes, very defensive of answering the same questions over and over again especially as I'm starting to get the feeling that alot of people are just of the opinion that "Darren did it this way so your way must be wrong". Your maths is missing £20-50 worth of battery cables and also adding £100 to the estimate I've had on a rewind or a rebuild.

The 12v non turbo ones don't fit properly even with a 10mm spacer as the pitch on the teeth is wrong as they use a different fly wheel. As for 12v not turning it quick enough, obviously it does or they wouldn't make 12v starters for some cummins motors, they don't use daft big batteries either, just a 12v 540amp battery. That and there is at least one of the land rover conversions running a full 12v system.

Nobody seems to offer any evidence of why it won't work, just opinions without any grounding.

Too much talk of 12/24v

I want to see mad welding fabrications



Have you sourced the 6 banger yet chris? I'll literally LOL if you have bought a DAF 45 and break it up on your driveway

Not got a lump yet, trying to work on getting one super cheap as £500 is nice but £300 would be much more friendly on the wallet.
It actually has tempted me to buy a 45 to break on the drive as you can get a truck cheaper than some people sell the engines but I don't think there is the money in breaking them really. I go past one about a mile and a half down the road every day on the train (can't see it from the road) and I do wonder how much they'd want for it.