Caterpillar C12 on govt auction. Repower good or bad ?

[scanzel]

On www.govliquidation.com there are about 20 new Caterpillar C12 for auction in Ohio. Are these good candidates
for a repower can the hp be boosted up etc. Last time several went in the $5,000 to $10,000 range.

[busfan]

Looks like a nice MCI on Ebay for that price, with 1031 hours on the motor O.o

[bigred]

I know they had a lot of problems with the Cat engines in Pusher Schoolies.Don't know exactly what the problems were.

[eagle19952]

Same old question, what are you going to do for gears ?

[luvrbus]

The C-12 is a million mile plus engine in a truck with very few problems,bus people don't care for 1 and killed the engine because the peak torque is @1600 rpm and they lug it to death trying to squeeze better fuel mileage from the C-12.

Run the serial numbers through Cat the later ones were set at 445 hp @ 1600 rpm and the peak torque was supposedly 1650 ft @ 1200 rpms that would make a bus haul @$#, I never ran across one of those yet