Horsepower is horsepower?
If that theory is true (in real circumstances), then a 385hp 6.7L Cummins diesel shouldn't spank a 381hp Toyota Tundra when both are tested 0-60 towing a 5740# boat. But it did. Must be the adva...
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Hmmm .. I don't get it with all the "screaming" talk relative to scaring or irritating folks to death.
My 2005 V10 E450 ("ton and a half chassis") motorhome with it's 6-speed computer controlled transmission has a 4.58 rear end in it and it just loafs along at around 2100 RPM in OD, quietly, when we're cruising along down the road on trips. The only time it "screams" - and it's not irritating at all to us - is when I need more horsepower from it going up grades so as to put more torque onto the rear drive axles if I want to maintain speed.
I'd guess that's what this long discussion is really all about ... diesel folks not liking the gear shifts you have to put up with when going up hills in a gasser instead of merely pushing in the gas pedal like you have to do with a diesel when going up hills .... assuming equal horsepower between the two engines and low altitudes so the normally asperated gasser doesn't have to unfairly measure up to a turbo boosted diesel.
The conditions talked about in the paragraph above don't mean to me that a diesel "pulls better". What it means to me is that a diesel "pulls different".
My 2005 V10 E450 ("ton and a half chassis") motorhome with it's 6-speed computer controlled transmission has a 4.58 rear end in it and it just loafs along at around 2100 RPM in OD, quietly, when we're cruising along down the road on trips. The only time it "screams" - and it's not irritating at all to us - is when I need more horsepower from it going up grades so as to put more torque onto the rear drive axles if I want to maintain speed.
I'd guess that's what this long discussion is really all about ... diesel folks not liking the gear shifts you have to put up with when going up hills in a gasser instead of merely pushing in the gas pedal like you have to do with a diesel when going up hills .... assuming equal horsepower between the two engines and low altitudes so the normally asperated gasser doesn't have to unfairly measure up to a turbo boosted diesel.
The conditions talked about in the paragraph above don't mean to me that a diesel "pulls better". What it means to me is that a diesel "pulls different".
