Detroit Diesel Series 71#Variants

The inline six-cylinder 71 series engine was introduced as the initial flagship product of the Detroit Diesel Engine Division of General Motors in 1938.

This engine was in high demand during WWII, necessitating a dramatic increase in output: about 57,000 6-71s were used on American landing craft, including 19,000 on LCVPs, about 8,000 on LCM Mk 3, and about 9,000 in quads on LCIs; and 39,000 were used in armor, including 4,000 on Valentine tanks, 22,000 in double packs on M4A2s, and 11,000 on M10 tank destroyers.{{Cite web|url=https://usautoindustryworldwartwo.com/General%20Motors/detroit-diesel.htm|title=Detroit Diesel Division of GM in World War Two|accessdate=25 July 2023}}

The V-type first appeared in 1957.

Sales of the Series 71 ceased in the summer of 1995, with the four-stroke Detroit Diesel engine introduced as a replacement.

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Bore and stroke are the same across all units, at {{convert|4+1/4|×|5|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}. Inline models were famously "symmetrical," meaning that the blower, exhaust, water manifold, starter, and other components could be mounted on either side of the basic block to fit a particular application. A number of models could also run with the crankshaft turning either clockwise or counter-clockwise, called "Right Hand" or "Left Hand" rotation engines (as viewed from the front of the engine). The less-common Left Hand engines were typically used in buses, because the rotation matched rear-engined transverse installations. Boats equipped with two engines would typically use one Left Hand and one Right Hand, so that the torque from the propellers would cancel each other out, without the need for a complex reversing gear on one side.

As a two-stroke diesel engine that does not use crankcase aspiration cannot naturally draw in combustion air, the blower is inherently necessary to charge the cylinders with air for combustion. The blower also assists in scavenging spent combustion gasses at the end of the power stroke. All Series 71 engines use uniflow scavenging, in which a gear-driven Roots blower mounted to the exterior of the engine provides intake air through cored passages in the engine block and ports in the cylinder walls at slightly greater than atmospheric pressure. The engine exhausts through pushrod-operated poppet valves in the cylinder head(s), with either two or four valves per cylinder. Unit fuel injection is employed, one injector per cylinder, with no high fuel pressure outside of the injector body. The injectors are cycled from the same gears-driven{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/detroitdieselseriesinline71servicemanual6se1771984ocr913pages/page/n3/mode/2up |title=Detroit Diesel Series Inline 71 Service Manual 6 SE 177 1984 OCR 913 Pages |language=English}}{{Rp|page=159}} camshaft responsible for opening the exhaust valves.

The first number refers to the number of cylinders in the engine, followed by a hyphen or "V", indicating inline or vee, respectively, then 71 for the Series designation, referring the nominal displacement per cylinder in cubic inches (rounding up {{convert|70.93|cid|L|1|abbr=on}}).

Like most Detroit Diesel two-cycle engines, the 71 Series are equipped with a blower yet still referred to as "naturally aspirated" (SAE designation). These do not have a model suffix identifier: 6-71 is an inline 6. When the model number includes a suffix, it denotes additional features. Engines equipped with needle unit{{clarifyme|date=June 2019|reason=still unclear what a "needle" design is...}} fuel injectors and commonly four exhaust valves per cylinder are indicated by the suffix "N", so for the V8, 8V-71N. Later versions were available with turbochargers, which discharged directly into the Roots blower intake; these have a "T" suffix, and with aftercooling, a "TA,, so 8V-71T or 8V-71TA. "TT" indicates Tailored Torque and "TTA" Tailored Torque Aftercooled. These models are designated for economy (Fuel Squeezer) and constant horsepower ratings.

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The most popular incarnations of the series 71 engine as used for highway vehicle applications included the inline 6-71, the V-block 6V-71 (both widely used in transit buses) and the 8V-71 V-8. In addition to motorcoach propulsion, both inline and V types have found extensive usage in school buses, trucks, fire apparatus, motor homes, construction{{Cite web|url=https://contractormag.co.nz/classic-machines/allis-chalmers-ts-460/|title = Allis-Chalmers TS-460 motor scraper| date=26 April 2017 }} and industrial machinery, a few farm tractors, commercial fishing vessels, and military vehicles and equipment.

The 71 series is very popular in marine applications, not only as a propulsion engine in small craft (Gray Marine 6-71) but as auxiliary power to drive generators, winches and other heavy shipboard machinery. The Detroit inline 6-71 engine, in all of its variations, was also available as a "pancake engine" (here variably called either 6L-71 or 6N-71) for horizontal (underfloor) mount applications, such as on larger Crown and Gillig school buses and articulated puller transit buses (such as the Crown-Ikarus 286). Many 4-71 engines were used in various types of construction equipment, such as Galion highway graders.

The six-cylinder version was also used in the Victorian Railways DERM railmotor.

The inline 6-71 was adapted to British requirements as the power plant for Canadian (and later British) built Valentine tanks where it was known as the GMC 6004, orders being placed in late September 1940.[http://www.wwiiequipment.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122:engines-used-by-british-vehicles-during-wwii&catid=49:other-data&Itemid=61 Engines used by British vehicles ]

The 6046 Diesel was a twin engine setup used by U.S. and British tanks and tank destroyers.

• The M3A3 (Lee IV/Lee V) and M3A5 (Grant II) variants of the M3 tank
• M4A2 variant of the M4 Sherman tank
• M10 tank destroyer and the re-gunned British variant, the 17pdr SP Achilles
• M36B2 variant of the M36 tank destroyer

The Detroit Diesel 6051 quad-71 was a Detroit Diesel Series 6-71 side by side tandem engine setup of two banks of four engines each driving two propeller shafts in Landing Craft Infantry LCI(L). The eight engines produced a total of {{convert|1600|bhp|0|abbr=on}}.[http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/ONI/ONI-226/ONI-226.pdf Allied landing craft and ships] ibiblio.org

In the Soviet Union/Russia, various versions of this engine-type were produced at the YaAZ automobile factory in Yaroslavl.{{cite web|url=http://xn----7sbb5ahj4aiadq2m.xn--p1ai/guide/army/tr/yaaz204.shtml |title=YaAZ-204 Diesel engine |publisher=русская-сила.рф |access-date=2013-11-21|language=ru}} Throughout World War II, the 4-71 engine both in locally assembled form (built by Lend-Lease provided American industrial equipment) and from U.S.-supplied kits had been used for Ya-12 light artillery tractors.{{cite web |url=http://www.o5m6.de/ya_12.html |title=Engines of the Red Army in WW2 - Artillery Tractor Ya-12 |publisher=Engines of the Red Army in WW2 |date=2007-03-12 |access-date=2013-11-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924053955/http://www.o5m6.de/ya_12.html |archive-date=2015-09-24 |url-status=dead }} After 1945, the 4-71 engine entered production in a slightly modified configuration (deuniversalization, conversion to metric units, a more powerful preheater{{cite web |url=http://www.gruzovikpress.ru/article/3169-dizelniy-pervenets-yaroslavtsev |title = Дизельный первенец ярославцев}}) to suit the conditions of the Soviet Union–branded "YaAZ-204". After 1947, the factory used a copy of the 6-71 engine branded "YaAZ-206" in the YaAZ-210 and YaAZ-214 heavy trucks built from 1951 to 1959. The vehicle production was transferred to KrAZ in Kremenchuk, Ukraine in 1959, where trucks with newer versions of the YaAZ-206 stood in production until the appearance of the four-stroke V8-engined KrAZ-255 in 1967.{{cite web|url=http://www.autogallery.org.ru/yaaz.htm |title=Oldtimer picture gallery. Trucks. YaAZ. |author=Andrei Bogomolov |access-date=2013-11-20}}{{cite web|url=http://www.autogallery.org.ru/yaaz210.htm |title=Oldtimer gallery. Trucks. YaAZ-210. |author=Andrei Bogomolov |access-date=2013-11-20}}{{cite web|url=http://www.oldrussiancars.com/category/trucks/kraz-219/ |title=KrAZ-219 |publisher=OldRussianCars.com |date=2013-07-21 |access-date=2013-11-20}}{{cite web|url=http://www.oldrussiancars.com/yaaz-218/ |title=YaAZ-218 |publisher=OldRussianCars.com |access-date=2013-11-20}}{{cite web|url=http://www.oldrussiancars.com/kraz-222/ |title=KrAZ-222 |publisher=OldRussianCars.com |access-date=2013-11-20}} Soviet made MAZ-200 used a 4-cylinder 2-stroke diesel engine.

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• Shelton, Chris. "Then, Now, and Forever" in Hot Rod, March 2017, pp.16-29.

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