History of Cat engines

Diesel has begun

Mar 15, 1920

The first time cat has experienced and mess with the diesel system.

Cat's first grader motor

Feb 9, 1931

Caterpillar releases the industry's first true motor grader - the Auto Patrol.

The series Sixty Tractor is started

Feb 9, 1931

Caterpillar begins producing its first diesel tractor model - the Caterpillar Diesel Sixty Tractor

The 1c1

Mar 2, 1931

Cat introduces the "1c1" diesel engines for the cat crawlers

4200G

Mar 15, 1931

36 horse, gasoline fitted in N0.9 grader

6000G

Mar 15, 1932

gas 4 cylinder fitted Thirty Five 37/41 horse

D6100

Mar 15, 1932

3 cylinder diesel fitted Thirty Five and Forty 38/36 horse

9000G

Mar 15, 1932

4 cylinder gas fitted in Sixty-Five 68/79

D9900

Mar 15, 1933

The D9900 diesel was introduced for the cat sixty series.

9500G

Mar 15, 1933

4 cylinder gas fitted Seventy 76/86

D13000

Mar 15, 1933

6 cylinder diesel 75/100 horse

D11000

Mar 15, 1933

6 cylinder diesel, 75/100 horse

5500G

Mar 15, 1934

4 cylinder gas fitted Thirty Five, 36/44 horse

D7700

Mar 15, 1934

4 cylinder diesel fitted in 50 50/66 horse

7500G

Mar 15, 1935

4 cylinder gas fitted Fifty 50/55 horse

D6600

Mar 15, 1935

3 cylinder fitted RD-6 45/60 horse

D8800

Mar 15, 1935

4 cylinder diesel fitted in RD-7 60/80 horse

D13000

Mar 15, 1935

6 cylinder diesel, 95/125-150 horse 1246 cubic inch

D4400

Mar 15, 1936

4 cylinder diesel fitted No.9 grader and D4 crawler

D3400

Mar 15, 1938

4 cylinder Diesel, was used in D2 crawler

3400G

Mar 15, 1938

4 cylinder gas, was fitted in R-2 4J and 6J

D4600

Mar 15, 1938

diesel fitted No.12 grader D5 crawler, on 46 built

D17000

Mar 15, 1938

diesel V-8 cylinder 120/160-200 horse 1662 cubic inch

4500G

Mar 15, 1941

4 cylinder gas fitted R-6 55/65 horse

D311

Mar 15, 1947

3 cylinder diesel 32 horse, fitted D2

D315

Mar 15, 1947

4 cylinder diesel 43 horse used in D4

D318

Mar 15, 1947

6 cylinder diesel 66 horse, used in D6

D326

Mar 15, 1950

170 horse, 6 cylinder diesel. 743 cubic inch. used in DW10 scraper tractor.

D337

Mar 15, 1952

250/275 horse, 6 cylinder diesel 743 cubic inch. used in DW20

the D9 is out

Feb 9, 1954

Caterpillar introduces the D9 Tractor.

D337F

Mar 15, 1955

6 cylinder 275/300 horse, diesel 743 cubic inch used in DW21 scraper tractor

D339

Mar 15, 1955

102/128 horse 4 cylinder diesel used in D7C

3204

Mar 15, 1980

4 cylinder diesel fitted 943 track loader

3406C

Apr 12, 1989

400 horse, 6.5i n stroke in-line 6 cylinder

3116

Mar 15, 1993

6 cylinder 6.6L diesel

3508C

Apr 12, 1994

1100 horse 7.5 in stroke V-8 cylinder

C9.3 ACERT

Apr 10, 1997

In line 6, 476 horse, 5,87 in stroke

3512E

Apr 12, 2001

1901 horse, 8.46 in stroke V-12 cylinder

ACERT

Jan 2, 2003

Cats new and improved ACERT cat engines are in the line up.

C12

Apr 10, 2003

497 horse, In line 6 cylinder 5.9 stroke

C18

Apr 10, 2004

715 horse In line 6 cylinder, 7.2 stroke

M 20 C

Apr 12, 2006

1800 horse, 11.81 in stroke inline 6,8,9 cylinder

Electronic engines

Mar 2, 2007

Cat brings more electrical into the engines. such as electronic injection, jakes, throttle and computers.

VM 46 DF

Apr 12, 2008

15440 horse, 514 RPM, 24.02 in stroke, V-12 V-16 cylinder

C280-6

Apr 12, 2009

2722 horse, 11.8 in stroke in-line 6 cylinder

3516E

Apr 12, 2011

3386 horse, 8.46 in stroke V-16 cylinder

C280-8

Apr 12, 2011

3393 horse, 11.8 in stroke in-line 8 cylinder

C32

Apr 10, 2012

1450 horse 6.38 stoke V 12 cylinder

C280-16

Apr 12, 2012

7577 horse 11.8 in stroke V-16 cylinder

C280-12

Apr 12, 2017

5096 horse 11.8 in stroke, V-12 cylinder