Can you tune a wood chipper engine? Lol

[TunaCat]

Probably a dumb question but curious…. Is there anyway to tune or at least add power to a bandit turbocharged diesel engine?

Currently the stock engine has 130hp. Its a 4BT Cummins. Has anyone suped up their chipper engine? Or added a larger turbo? Or buy an upgraded p pump and injectors?

I would like to increase power at least 170hp and 500lb/ft if possible

 

[ClimberBusinessman]

Probably a dumb question but curious…. Is there anyway to tune or at least add power to a bandit turbocharged diesel engine?

Currently the stock engine has 130hp. Its a 4BT Cummins. Has anyone suped up their chipper engine? Or added a larger turbo? Or buy an upgraded p pump and injectors?

I would like to increase power at least 170hp and 500lb/ft if possible

No idea. But I've heard of people doing that with trucks, and they can have issues with the engine or transmission. Also you want to make sure everything downstream of the engine can handle the extra power, like the hydraulic pump and everything else, or those might fail as well. I doubt that the drum or disk couldn't handle it, but the hydraulics might be rated for a certain size of engine.

 

[ballisticdoughnut]

Probably a dumb question but curious…. Is there anyway to tune or at least add power to a bandit turbocharged diesel engine?

Currently the stock engine has 130hp. Its a 4BT Cummins. Has anyone suped up their chipper engine? Or added a larger turbo? Or buy an upgraded p pump and injectors?

I would like to increase power at least 170hp and 500lb/ft if possible

Yes. If you search online there’s plenty of aftermarket support for the 4BT.

 

[Chainsaw Pete]

Generally speaking, when you soup up an engine, you reduce its durability and/or life. For a piece of equipment used for work I'd think upping the hp would be counter productive. Would it even be cost effective?

Unless you changed the rpms, the hydraulics will not use any more hp. The drive train to the chipping head would use most of the add'l power.

 

[ElevatorGuy]

I don’t know about the chipper specifically but the 4BT is known to make good power with some upgrades. I saw a YT video some years ago with a 4BT swapped ford ranger. It was making 250hp and around 800 ft lbs of torque. Anything is possible with enough money. I think you’d be better off just buying a bigger chipper. What are you expecting to gain adding 40hp?