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- and stop that GCWR on a steep (7% or whatever is the max spec) and get it going again...SEVERAL times...
Hannibal wrote:
Who cares what the advertised HP is. I'd like to see them tested at their full GCWR up the grades. Lets see if they live up to the hype.
exactly- Who cares what the advertised HP is. I'd like to see them tested at their full GCWR up the grades. Lets see if they live up to the hype.
- Horsepower can kill us, too much money or the wrong pretty woman can get us killed. :)
debraindi wrote:
I think its good that Dodge could squeak there new 3500 in just under the 4500 and ford doped there law suit against Dodge calming there new 3500 should be rated as 4500.
I have been saying my 15 RAM Dually is a 4500 with 3500 badges. The 14K GVWR is just a number!- The numbers are bogus. My 14 is a sad sack computer controlled never gonna make rated HP contraption. Press the pedal and it works like an HVAC chiller. It will load up and start to make power but do it on its own preset parameters. Parameters which have NOTHING to do with real world driving. A good example is my truck does quite well hauling the 14.5K loaded toyhauler but with a 4-5K cargo trailer in Montana hills it IS A PATHETIC POS THAT CAN NOT FIND THE RIGHT GEAR OR PRODUCE THE EXPECTED POWER to drive normally. Choice is a slug or drive it floored and back off and then back on.
Bottom line is the advertised HP and TQ is something that it could potentially make under some rare circumstances. Very rare. Maybe unique. - I think its good that Dodge could squeak there new 3500 in just under the 4500 and ford doped there law suit against Dodge calming there new 3500 should be rated as 4500.
- You can have to much of all of that ^^^ ...:B
- Good on RAM. You can never have too much Horsepower, Money or Pretty Women. lol
BenK wrote:
But....they/their marketing department is constantly being told via sales and
assume many of their survey's that HP sells...
Always has been and seemingly...will continue to be...HP is KING
to their buyers...as this thread proves...right?
Maybe, but Cummins didn't raise the HP rating still 385 HP they raised the Torque rating from 850 to 900.
Now I know all about the HP and torque formulas, but my old 5.9 Cummins is too stupid to know that, so it just does a great job of moving 20,000# of TV and 5er at speed of traffic with less than 280 hp, but a bunch of torque.
What is amazing to me is that these New Diesels with all this HP and Torque, still can get 20 mpg empty on the open road! Then most can get north of 10 mpg pulling decent loads, Cummins12V98 can almost get that on flat land with about 30,000# GCVW!
