Perkins 6.247

The Perkins 6.247 is a diesel engine designed by Perkins Engines in the mid-1970s, intended for light duty commercial vehicles with lower NVH than contemporary offerings. It is a six-cylinder variant of the Perkins 4.165. It was built under licence by Mazda as the ZB. It was fitted to the Ford Australia F100 series light trucks for a short period from the late 1970s to the early 1980s; in the United Kingdom it was installed in the Dodge 50 Series. This engine was later revised and renamed the Mazda T4100 and fitted to the Mazda 3- and 4-tonne trucks.
Bore and stroke are for an overall displacement of. When installed in the Dodge 50, this engine produces and.