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ls1mike
Jul 24, 2013Explorer II
APT wrote:
Mike, I believe I am not making my point clear. I have a 6.0L too and love it! I'm not saying everyone should have a diesel. I think it makes far more sense for the OP than you or maybe even me. I was just curious if you have real world experience improving power on your truck for RVing. It is not the same use case as sporty cars, even lightly loaded trucks.
It sounds like you have a baseline. Do you plan to do the cam soon? I am interested in your results, how you think it pulls on the same conditions and hills.
Well the last truck ,the 5.3 had a cam and heads, it made a huge diffrence. A cam by itself? What I expect to see is dropping down the RPM from 4000 to 3500 rpm on the long grades and getting up to highway speed a little quicker on the on ramps. In the old truck before the heads it did help hold overdrive longer becuase it delivered more torque at lower RPMS.
I hope to install it this weekend, but I ran the Ragnar relay this past weekend and plan on running the Whale of run this weekend so It may not go in until August and then I have a half marathon and a mud run so...
I like to run. The Ragnar is a 2 day relay race with a team of 12 runners we each ran about 17 miles. You basically get 2 hours of sleep during the course of the run and each runner runs three legs. It took our team 30 hours to run 200 miles. It was a blast!
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