Carpet Cleaning Fool said:
At first glance it thought it was the ultimate until i started reading the specs.
a 300+ hp engine spinning at 1500 rpm. How much horsepower do you think its really putting out? Anyone got a guess? I dunno, maybe 60....
the fact that it comes w/ a 5.9 blower tells the entire story. It's a wimpy blower for a 300+ hp truckmount. Wouldn't you say?
George,
Your post is quite perceptive. Why? Because you question the logistics and are not persuaded or fogged by the hype. The engine I saw on the unit at Connections was carbureted and manifolded not for the application, but for sustained high RPM/horsepower (so it can hype the upper spec). Hardly a setup where you would want to consider the more important aspects of the application for which the engine had been chosen. Indeed, such a setup is actually detrimental to running the unit at a sustained low RPM level that they have chosen, that being 1500. Running a 4 barrel carb on a single plane manifold at a sustained rpm of 1500, along with the low loading and absence of any sort of governer will result in higher fuel consumption, lousy emission specs, carbon build-up, fouled plugs, and even a depression in the low-end torque, which is the very thing you need/want in the application without a governer (engine speed modulator).
The unit at Connections didn't even have an exhaust system, just open manifolds. (I guess that's extra :wink: ) If heat is only from the cooling system, then you would have to expect temps lower than that of most
CDS type units, with much smaller blowers. So, what do we have here? A triple wand machine with no heat, or do we have a behemoth single wand unit with too much blower, and a way overblown engine?
The bottom line is that the unit is a "Charm unit" or conversation piece more than a practical assemblage for an assigned task. If you remember the turbine jet driven
Prochem that was used as an attention getter, you saw how impractical the unit really was, and that it had no purpose other than for ego/show. This unit here satisfies the primal urges of those who missed the eventual point of the exercise.
Then again, you have never been here to understand. (nor do you see me post pictures of products in my post sigs, as cheap plugs) 
