TRACTOR TEST: One helluva nose job took place when New Holland installed an SCR-equipped motor within its flagship tractor range: the short stumpy snout of the T8000 made way for a massive, elongated honker that packs even more power in the T8. Here we focus on the family’s top model, the 250kW/340hp (ISO14396) T8.390.
New Holland and Case IH heavy-weight, conventional wheeled tractors have always been distinctly different in their styling and cab layouts, yet, with the advent of the two CNH brands’ latest model introductions, these points of separation have been taken one significant stage further.
For the blue brand, the marque we focus on here, New Holland has stretched the wheelbase of its T8 flagship range by 16cm when compared with the T8000 line it replaces. And lying under that longer nose is another change: a Fiat Powertrain Technologies Cursor 9 motor supersedes the old Cummins power plant. Set up to meet Stage IIIB, the FPT 8.7-litre unit is kitted out with a wastegate turbo, common-rail injection and SCR, while its 650-litre capacity fuel tank is mated with an 89-litre AdBlue tank to feed the SCR system and rid the tractor of all those exhaust nasties.
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