275 HP Cummins diesel on a 31' coach

timmac wrote:

hotjag1 wrote:
My guess is that you will be going about the same speed up hills with the 275 hp diesel or the V-10. The big difference is that you won't have an engine screaming at 4000 rpm right beside you if you go with the diesel.

Banks Power Pack System and 5 Star Tuning takes care of the high RPM's on the 2006 and newer V-10's in the mountains, ask how I know..


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Test drive the Breeze and test drive a similar size gas MH see how each handles. There are other issues beside performance to look at. But to answer the OP, a good test is to time what it takes to go from 40-60 MPH the MH with the shortest time will have the better performance. As DP's get shorter the HP goes down. A gas MH will have the same HP in a 39ft MH all the way down to a 24 ft MH. Also think that DP's are maybe twice the weight of equal length MH's. So a 362 HP 30 ft gas MH that weights maybe 13,000 lbs compared to a 30 ft DP with 275 HP that weights maybe 26,000 lbs will have much better performance.