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Arquus engines

Arquus engines

The engines of Arquus's four-wheel drives: 9 of them, 2 petrol and 7 diesel, with the vehicles each one powered and when.

What Arquus used, and when

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petrol diesel electric multi-fuel

inline-6 · 5.8 L · diesel · naturally aspirated, turbocharged

Perkins 6.354

1965–2000

The 5,798 cc six-cylinder direct-injection Perkins diesel of the 4.236 family (98.4 × 127 mm), up to 155 hp turbocharged. ACMAT's VLRA used the naturally aspirated 6.354.4 at 120 hp SAE in the 4×4 and 138 hp in the 6×6 in 1982; every ACMAT was Perkins-powered from 1979.

23 vehicles: ACMAT VLRA (1967– ), TPK 4.15 FSP, TPK 4.20 SM3, TPK 4.20 VCT and 19 more

inline-4 · 2.5 L · diesel · turbocharged

Nissan YD25DDTi

2001–present

The 2.5-litre turbodiesel four of the D22, D40 and NP300 Navara.

2 vehicles: ALTV, ALTV Torpedo

5 L · diesel · turbocharged, intercooled

Renault Trucks Midlum 5-litre turbo-diesel

2006–present

The 5-litre turbocharged, intercooled diesel of the Renault Trucks Midlum range revised in 2006, used with the Midlum's six-speed gearbox in ACMAT's VLRA 2 at 190 hp (2,300 rpm). Army Recognition calls it a Volvo engine; Renault Trucks was part of the Volvo Group. Cylinder count not published in the sources consulted.

3 vehicles: VLRA 2, VLRA 2 Commando, VLRA 2 CCF forest-fire tanker

inline-4 · 2.5 L · petrol · naturally aspirated

Chevrolet 153 four

The 2.5-litre water-cooled inline-four that South Africa fitted to the Eland armoured car from the Mk5, in place of the AML’s air-cooled Panhard flat-four.

1 vehicle: Eland Mk7 (South Africa)