Why diesel trucks?
Judging from my other two posts a lot of folks that responded drive DRW diesel trucks to carry the heavier multi slide campers. I understand the DRW for heavier payload but why diesel? Just looking at...
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Kayteg1 wrote:
Today's 4-cylinder engines have more HP than famous 454 Chevy engine from 1980's, but you still don't see them mounted in big motorhomes like 200HP 454 was.
True, but the only reason the 454 in the 80s was unnecessarily restricted with new smog equipment that manufacturers didn’t understand. On the other hand, new v8s nonturbo just over 300 ci engines have double the hp on those 80 era 454s. You don’t see them in motorhomes either.
Torque and hp don’t always go together. As most of us know, you can create lots of hp at the expense of torque, but in the same gasoliine engine both numbers generally go up if you raise one unless you change the cam which is almost never done anymore.
As far as ecoboost goes, there are enough people burned by gasoline turbo engines in the past that many people would prefer the displacement in the v8s with less things to go wrong. The exception being elevation where the turbos have an advantage.
