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ShinerBock
Explorer
Sep 08, 2017

Breaking point: How much power can your diesel handle?

Although most diesel owners on this site are of the mindset that any added power will damage an engine and they will probably never push their engine to these power levels, there might be a few here t...
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Me_Again
Explorer III
Sep 08, 2017
crcr wrote:
The Ram transmission specialist that just rebuilt my 48RE transmission to beefier than OEM, builds up that same transmission for the racing crowd, to handle 2000hp!


I spent several thousand dollars on my 47RE "twice" to handle 325/650-700 at the rear wheels. Towed great. However with todays higher OEM numbers it gets pretty pricey to beef up the current trannys for even more power.

And for the record Old Blue(2001.5) was much quicker and lively than Cherry our 2015. Chris

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