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Old Nov 17, 2011 | 11:00 PM
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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 02:16 AM
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I'm too dumb to know to know what I'm looking at.
Old Nov 18, 2011 | 04:38 AM
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confused bonre
Old Nov 18, 2011 | 04:46 AM
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Looks like Caterpillar Yellow to me. Forklift or some other form of heavy equipment?
Old Nov 18, 2011 | 07:10 AM
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It looks like a compound twin turbo setup on a large diesel engine....that someone did a shitty job spray painting yellow.
Old Nov 18, 2011 | 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Doppelgänger
It looks like a compound twin turbo setup on a large diesel engine....that someone did a shitty job spray painting yellow.
That's how diesel guys do. It's like painting a 240sx flat black. It's supposed to be a statement about how they're more concerned with performance than appearance.

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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 01:09 PM
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which is obviously not the case, because they spent the time to paint it...
Old Nov 18, 2011 | 01:26 PM
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I was thinking it was faefloras twin who likes yellow instead or purple.
Old Nov 18, 2011 | 03:34 PM
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Looks like a CAT C15 in a Kenworth W900 or Peterbilt 389. I think an EPA04 emissions. Just my educated guess.
Old Nov 18, 2011 | 03:41 PM
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And only 35#! At what rpm? 1800?
Old Nov 18, 2011 | 06:38 PM
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I work in a large repair shop and we service semis on one side and light trucks and cars on the other. I work on the latter and I have no idea what type of truck this is. They had the hood up and it caught my eye so I snapped a pic.

The dude in the pic is the driver.
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