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- I wonder what 1/4 mile times these trucks would hit, if you used drag radial tires....or M+H racing slicks on all four, drive wheels ?
:) - Great information.
I always buy a truck for towing based on drag times. So much easier. Good idea not to get too close to the starting line and be breathing the bleach fumes. - I have no clue at what RPM they make their peak HP, nor do I care...I know that the Chevy D/A's I owned ran like a bat out of ...well, you know what I mean..AND they were/are a great towing truck...Just happened to go with a different truck back in 2010 and found out it too was one heck of a truck...not as fast as a Chevy D/A from stop light to stop light:)...BUT, the Ram is every bit, if not more, the towing machine the Chevy is...I have no clue about the Ford...I have awesome insurance rates...no speeding tickets, no accidents and I've been driving since 66'..now never said I didn't deserve a ticket...but, at 64, not in any hurry to get from point A to point B, I an run the speed limit all day and do it safely and the truck tows my 5er all through the mountains, efforlessly...not a 0 to 60 in any kind of time that would impress, but in every thing else..it get's an A+ :)
RCMAN46 wrote:
transamz9 wrote:
NC Hauler wrote:
FishOnOne wrote:
TXiceman wrote:
WHat matters at the end of the day is getting up the hill. Drag races don't do that.
I look at this way... The truck that gets up the hill the fastest is generally the truck that can pull that load up the hill the easiest. :W
Disagree...I KNOW my truck isn't the fastest off the line, BUT IT SURE TOWS MY 16,200# efortlessly through the mountains that I tow in...Seeing as how I'm not seeing how fast I can run light to light, or drag racing a truck that weighs right at 9,000#. I I know what I know about my truck from putting about 21,500 miles on it at this point, and that's this; it wasn't built to race, it was built to work, and that is what it does in a most excellent way.
Lot more to towing up a hill/mountain, other than just how fast the truck could do it when not towing...with a heavy 5er hooked to the truck being towed up the mountain, the cooling system as well as the tranny figure more into it in a different way than setting at a stop light and seeing who can get from 0 to "whatever" in X amount of time...Childish at the least..
I don't think he meant racing to be first. I think what he meant and you will probably agree with me is that most of us when we pull a hill will push the truck to a comfortable point and stop. What it runs is what it runs speed wise. Don't you new truck pull your load up a hill a little faster with the same effort than you older Cummins trucks did?
I believe really that that is the main reason the Cummins is liked so much. It makes it's power down low where normal cruising RPM are so it makes towing feel effortless compared to having to rev to get to it's power.
The Ford 6.7 makes its peak horsepower at 2800 rpm, The Duramax at 3000 rpm and the Cummins 6.7 at 2800 rpm.
So power wise other than the Cummins makes less horsepower has nothing on the other diesels as for the rpm that it makes the power at.
Yes , all the trucks now days are close at where they make their power. I guess I was referring to past years motors. The older Powerstrokes peak torque was at around 2000 rpm while the Cummins was at 15-1600.transamz9 wrote:
NC Hauler wrote:
FishOnOne wrote:
TXiceman wrote:
WHat matters at the end of the day is getting up the hill. Drag races don't do that.
I look at this way... The truck that gets up the hill the fastest is generally the truck that can pull that load up the hill the easiest. :W
Disagree...I KNOW my truck isn't the fastest off the line, BUT IT SURE TOWS MY 16,200# efortlessly through the mountains that I tow in...Seeing as how I'm not seeing how fast I can run light to light, or drag racing a truck that weighs right at 9,000#. I I know what I know about my truck from putting about 21,500 miles on it at this point, and that's this; it wasn't built to race, it was built to work, and that is what it does in a most excellent way.
Lot more to towing up a hill/mountain, other than just how fast the truck could do it when not towing...with a heavy 5er hooked to the truck being towed up the mountain, the cooling system as well as the tranny figure more into it in a different way than setting at a stop light and seeing who can get from 0 to "whatever" in X amount of time...Childish at the least..
I don't think he meant racing to be first. I think what he meant and you will probably agree with me is that most of us when we pull a hill will push the truck to a comfortable point and stop. What it runs is what it runs speed wise. Don't you new truck pull your load up a hill a little faster with the same effort than you older Cummins trucks did?
I believe really that that is the main reason the Cummins is liked so much. It makes it's power down low where normal cruising RPM are so it makes towing feel effortless compared to having to rev to get to it's power.
The Ford 6.7 makes its peak horsepower at 2800 rpm, The Duramax at 3000 rpm and the Cummins 6.7 at 2800 rpm.
So power wise other than the Cummins makes less horsepower has nothing on the other diesels as for the rpm that it makes the power at.transamz9 wrote:
NC Hauler wrote:
FishOnOne wrote:
TXiceman wrote:
WHat matters at the end of the day is getting up the hill. Drag races don't do that.
I look at this way... The truck that gets up the hill the fastest is generally the truck that can pull that load up the hill the easiest. :W
Disagree...I KNOW my truck isn't the fastest off the line, BUT IT SURE TOWS MY 16,200# efortlessly through the mountains that I tow in...Seeing as how I'm not seeing how fast I can run light to light, or drag racing a truck that weighs right at 9,000#. I I know what I know about my truck from putting about 21,500 miles on it at this point, and that's this; it wasn't built to race, it was built to work, and that is what it does in a most excellent way.
Lot more to towing up a hill/mountain, other than just how fast the truck could do it when not towing...with a heavy 5er hooked to the truck being towed up the mountain, the cooling system as well as the tranny figure more into it in a different way than setting at a stop light and seeing who can get from 0 to "whatever" in X amount of time...Childish at the least..
I don't think he meant racing to be first. I think what he meant and you will probably agree with me is that most of us when we pull a hill will push the truck to a comfortable point and stop. What it runs is what it runs speed wise. Don't you new truck pull your load up a hill a little faster with the same effort than you older Cummins trucks did?
I believe really that that is the main reason the Cummins is liked so much. It makes it's power down low where normal cruising RPM are so it makes towing feel effortless compared to having to rev to get to it's power.
transzam9, I'll give you that one, but I really don't have anything to compare to except a 2010 Dodge Ram dually and a 12'...(only Dodge/Ram trucks I've ever owned, and the 13' in my sig), and they've all done quite well and been excellent trucks or I'd went back to GM/Chevy, which is a "faster" truck, and a very good towing truck to be sure, just been impressed with this one enough to stay with Ram, and you're right, it's pretty doggone quick and can run at a very good speed when it comes to towing, especially towing in the mountains.NC Hauler wrote:
FishOnOne wrote:
TXiceman wrote:
WHat matters at the end of the day is getting up the hill. Drag races don't do that.
I look at this way... The truck that gets up the hill the fastest is generally the truck that can pull that load up the hill the easiest. :W
Disagree...I KNOW my truck isn't the fastest off the line, BUT IT SURE TOWS MY 16,200# efortlessly through the mountains that I tow in...Seeing as how I'm not seeing how fast I can run light to light, or drag racing a truck that weighs right at 9,000#. I I know what I know about my truck from putting about 21,500 miles on it at this point, and that's this; it wasn't built to race, it was built to work, and that is what it does in a most excellent way.
Lot more to towing up a hill/mountain, other than just how fast the truck could do it when not towing...with a heavy 5er hooked to the truck being towed up the mountain, the cooling system as well as the tranny figure more into it in a different way than setting at a stop light and seeing who can get from 0 to "whatever" in X amount of time...Childish at the least..
I don't think he meant racing to be first. I think what he meant and you will probably agree with me is that most of us when we pull a hill will push the truck to a comfortable point and stop. What it runs is what it runs speed wise. Don't you new truck pull your load up a hill a little faster with the same effort than you older Cummins trucks did?
I believe really that that is the main reason the Cummins is liked so much. It makes it's power down low where normal cruising RPM are so it makes towing feel effortless compared to having to rev to get to it's power.Yellermanx wrote:
I often wonder if while towing and particularly up hill when someone passes another make if they go bragging to their friends or on here how they blew away a (select your make here) "because the other guy couldn't go any faster". As for me, when this pass happens I have the possibility of going faster too. I feel no need to abuse my truck or waste fuel for ego's sake.
FWIW I would love to have a new Eco Boost.
I don't. What's wrong with passing someone that's not doing the speed limit? So I get on it a little and run 60-65mph up some hill. I do it cause I can. Pedals 1/2 way down to the floor, not crammed to the floor with the engine screaming at 5000 rpms. I'm not working it any harder than the guy towing 14,000lbs up the hill.
Sorry your feelings get hurt when you get passed.FishOnOne wrote:
TXiceman wrote:
WHat matters at the end of the day is getting up the hill. Drag races don't do that.
I look at this way... The truck that gets up the hill the fastest is generally the truck that can pull that load up the hill the easiest. :W
Disagree...I KNOW my truck isn't the fastest off the line, BUT IT SURE TOWS MY 16,200# efortlessly through the mountains that I tow in...Seeing as how I'm not seeing how fast I can run light to light, or drag racing a truck that weighs right at 9,000#. I I know what I know about my truck from putting about 21,500 miles on it at this point, and that's this; it wasn't built to race, it was built to work, and that is what it does in a most excellent way.
Lot more to towing up a hill/mountain, other than just how fast the truck could do it when not towing...with a heavy 5er hooked to the truck being towed up the mountain, the cooling system as well as the tranny figure more into it in a different way than setting at a stop light and seeing who can get from 0 to "whatever" in X amount of time...Childish at the least..
