bmanning wrote:
Hannibal wrote:
wnjj wrote:
ib516 wrote:
The diesel will pull at lower rpm with much less transmission shifting. It will also get 50% better mpg towing or empty.
Lower rpm = lower road speed, unless you run in a higher gear which means lower torque at the wheel. You can't have it all unless you've got HP. I seriously doubt a stock 235hp diesel with similar torque to a 345hp gas engine would pull as well but I can't say I've had first hand experience. Modded is another story for either engine.
I have had that experience. My '05 345hp/365ftlb Hemi powered 2500HD towed our 10,400 lb 5th wheel faster up the grades than my '03 duplicate 250hp/460ftlb Cummins powered 2500HD. It was at 4500rpm vs 2900rpm, not 5k rpm vs 1800rpm. And we got 2mpg better with the Cummins. Not twice the mileage. A stock 8.1 would run circles around a stock '01 Cummins.
Hannibal speaks from real-world experience, not speculation or theory.
Seems easy to me to decide which responses to give weight to and which to ignore.
Facts are just as important as "experience". My first two sentences were facts. My second two were opinion based upon those facts and clearly marked as such. Some people find value in responses that are based upon more than potentially biased anecdotal experience, even if you don't.
