Is 300HP Enough
We are thinking of switching to a Class A or a Super C to use for towing our race trailer which weighs 7-8K when loaded. We like the Fleetwood Excursion which sits on a Freightliner chassis with 300HP...
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RayChez wrote:
You will not find a 34 or 36' foot coach with a 450hp Cummins engine. The chassis builders only install engines according to weight. The biggest you will find for those length and weight are 350hp.
Some of these guys suggest getting big 500hp engines like what they have on their coach. The only thing they do not tell you is that the coach they have is 45' foot long and it takes every bit of that power to move that much coach.
About as untrue as you can get.
ForeTravels ALWAYS weighed LESS than the same length Country Coach and ALWAYS had much larger engines ( with an equally higher price tag too) and CC themselves installed 330HP engines in my coach ( nothing larger obtainable in them) and in later years before they went belly up had 425 and 450 HP engines available.
