350 HP ICE vs. 350 HP Diesel?

OhhWell wrote:

JumboJet wrote:

OhhWell wrote:

JumboJet wrote:
OP's topic: 350 HP ICE vs. 350 HP Diesel?

My challenge, that Daveinet bastardized with his souped up dragster camouflaged as a motorhome, is this:

Get a 400 c.i./400 HP (I'll even give you 20 HP advantage) gasoline powered truck with a 35 gallon fuel tank, total GVW of 25,000 lbs. pulling a gooseneck loaded trailer. On a 1,250 mile trip, with a 50 mile head start for the gas powered pickup, cruise set at 65 mph, from the I-81 PA/MD border to Fayetteville, AR, I will beat it to the end of the trip by at least one hour.

I don't care about torque, horsepower, gearing, RPMs, etc. - I care about an apples to apples comparison excluding the fuel type. The diesel will win every time.

Why would you beat it, all the stops the gasser will have to make due to lower fuel economy and a smaller gas tank?

You just cannot comprehend what you read. Apples to apples except for fuel type. That means 3.73 diff in both trucks, 35 gallon fuel tanks both trucks. 25,000 lbs. GVW both trucks. Make them Dodges so the body style will be the same as far as wind resistance. You have been smelling gasoline fumes too long!

Out of hundreds of people that have happened to have towed 5th wheel campers with both gas and diesel, I bet there are only a few of you that prefer gasoline.

Any reason you cannot answer my question or did you have trouble comprehending it? And you didn't make it a complete apples for apples, you gave the gasser 20 more HP and a 50 mile head start. Read your own doggone post before coming on here attacking me. :S

Still waiting for an actual reason why the diesel would get there at least an hour earlier other than fuel stops........

It is still apples to apples - just that the gasser is a red delicious vs. the diesel being a golden delicious.

The gasser WOULD have to stop more for fuel and would lose more time on the hills which are plentiful and some quite long across that route. I am seriously doubtful that the cruise control could maintain 65 mph on the gasser. But, having actually made that trip under all those conditions myself, I know what my stock RAM 3500 is capable of.

I am headed back across that same route on March 14 returning on March 17. I will only be at a GVW of 14,000 so I expect to run 70 MPH on this trip.

...and if I WAS attacking you, we would need to head over to the "Do you feel threatened..." thread.