Gas or Diesel
My Son is looking to get a 2015 Ford F-350 CC SB. He's trying to decide between the 6.2 gas or pay extra for the 6.7 diesel. He currently has a 6.0 diesel so he knows how the diesel pulls. ...
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I wonder what makes some think that diesels don't "gobble the fuel" when pulling loads up long hills with their turbos boosting away???
The energy has to come from somewhere .... most likely the fuel tank.
By the way, here's the engineering equation showing where torque comes directly from. Notice that the equation does not care whether one is talking about a diesel or a gasser engine that's making the torque from horsepower. But what it doesn't show is that a diesel pulls DIFFERENT, not BETTER than a gasser when both have equivalent horsepower. Preference is everything and Detroit has made sure (other than Ford with the good old V10) that the preference winds up being diesel because they (or maybe the EPA) refuse to make a pulling gas engine anymore:
Torque = Horsepower X 5252 / Revolutions Per Minute
(For one exception example, see my earlier post above about a 1965 Ford I once owned that had a pulling gas engine.)
The energy has to come from somewhere .... most likely the fuel tank.
By the way, here's the engineering equation showing where torque comes directly from. Notice that the equation does not care whether one is talking about a diesel or a gasser engine that's making the torque from horsepower. But what it doesn't show is that a diesel pulls DIFFERENT, not BETTER than a gasser when both have equivalent horsepower. Preference is everything and Detroit has made sure (other than Ford with the good old V10) that the preference winds up being diesel because they (or maybe the EPA) refuse to make a pulling gas engine anymore:
Torque = Horsepower X 5252 / Revolutions Per Minute
(For one exception example, see my earlier post above about a 1965 Ford I once owned that had a pulling gas engine.)
