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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transamz9 wrote:
So if you were full timing and towing 18-20,000# through the mountains you would still go with the high revving turbo gasser?
Yes.
And from what I've read the turbo gasser wouldn't necessarily need to be high revving. The 3.5 EB that Ford is putting in half tons delivers its power at reasonable rpm's.
The trailers we've been looking at max out at about 13,000#. Haven't considered anything as heavy as 18-20,000#, but I'd bet a paycheck a 5 liter turbo gas engine would get it up any mountain a diesel would, and with less boost as well. Don't the 6.5 to 7 liter diesels need about 30 psi of boost to perform better than their gas counterparts? That's like running a 20 liter NA diesel.
