Have our trucks got too much power yet?
I've often thought about all the energy being wasted with braking applications and exhaust braking on down grades. It's only a matter of time before our rvs will have electric drive axles to help hold...
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FishOnOne wrote:ShinerBock wrote:
While I like 500 crank hp in stock form on a diesel truck, I don't like what they will have to do to get it there to keep emissions in check. That means pushing fuel systems to their limits and adding more unreliable emissions equipment. I am more of a fan of adding reliable power after it rolls off the assembly line.
It would be nice if they added the ability to change power levels on the fly like a tuner does. When you are not towing, it is safe to run higher powered tunes and switch to lower power tunes depending on load and temps. Although, most trucks(both gas and diesel) already do this without a switch and most people don't know it.
And you have engines with the CP4.2 pump producing 400hp and less.
Based on the way they achieve their dyno numbers and pull less power under load(from my experiences), yes. There is big difference between advertising power that can only be sustained unloaded or under light load and power that can be sustained at it's heaviest rated load. There is a reason why every review site from PUTC to TFLTruck says that the Cummins, while slow unloaded(partially due to the slow shifting Aisin), is the least effected by a load.
