Diesel vs gas......................
OK folks, there have been a few to many diesel vs gas threads that have shall we say gone to "Hell and a hand basket"! So if all of you would put in you BEST, no flaming reasons for going gas vs diese...
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I agree with Hannibal on this one. I don't have a doubt in my mind that a gas motor turning the same 1000+ hp as the truck in the video would break the record. I would say that he ran out of RPM's before he ran out of power. All he was doing was trying to beat the old record. That truck had stock gears so he would probably run that, no more empty. A gas motor would be turning north of 10,000 RPM's to get that HP. It would just take twice if not more to build a 1000+ hp gas engine than it would a diesel. I would say the bottom end of that Duramax was stock. That video doesn't impress me and that's not what we are discussing here. We are talking about real world everyday performance with-in the laws of the road. Hell, I've seen semi's grossing 80,000# running 110+ MPH on the hi-ways so I know with a taller final gear they could break the towing record with a light load. That record means squat to me.
