new volvo engine d13tc

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(07-13-2022 )Konstantin Wrote:  They posted cruising rpm around 1000 at 70mph . Maybe somehow volvo did something different. I kind of believe it is very bad for the engine, but on the other hand a bunch of engineers put this together. I think we will know in 2-3 years how it holds up.

I have seen a couple come in the shop now, mostly for emission issues but I had the opportunity to do a cam on 1 of them. They have a multi piece cam and 1 of the lobes for the fuel pump spun and was causing a fault and low power.

I was actually pretty happy when I seen the fixed vane turbo I feel like this is gonna increase reliability of the turbo and the repositioning of the EGR valve is a lot better. But listening to it I could tell there was a moving vane creating back pressure probably in that housing where there is a turbine driving a gear so.... there goes the reliability.

On the engine itself though I did not notice any other changes.