TFL Truck tests Ford Raptor vs Ram TRX towing on I-70

valhalla360 wrote:
The real question is how long those engines will last doing that regularly.

These HP ratings are about taking an empty truck 0-60 very quickly. That will only push the engine for a few seconds. The engine won't really have any time to build up any heat from the extra burn.

Even cruising 100mph on the freeway, it won't be putting out anything close to 700hp. Even here, as long as the cooling system is in good shape, you aren't really stressing the engine.

Off road? Mud bogging or climbing a sand dune, again, you may floor it for a few seconds but not for a 1/2 hour continuous.

Pulling 10k up a mountain with your foot all the way to the floor...it may not be the full 700hp but it's putting out a lot of HP and doing so for an extended period of time. Now you are really stress testing the engine. Do that regularly and I would wonder about durability with a high strung engine.

Good point, but with only 8000 lbs towing capacity, it's nearly impossible to use these engines at 100% duty cycle.

If they're not using full hp on the IKE gauntlet, which we know based on the perfect 8min run, where else on earth would they load the engine even higher?

To properly "load" a 700 hp engine to 100% duty cycle for any significant amount of time, we'll probably need a 35k+ lbs trailer.

I bet Ram knows this, and the same goes for any high hp cars - outside of high hp racetracks, there just isn't a place to really hurt these engines (car would be impounded before that).