Ok what truck to buy ?
After several struggles in the mountains I've decided it's time for a new truck. My old truck has been really good but new trailer is pushing it. Current truck is 2004 Ram 2500 5.7 Hemi pulling 8...
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specta wrote:valhalla360 wrote:specta wrote:valhalla360 wrote:
I'm sure it doesn't cause problems but if there was something magical about that combination of design criteria...everyone would be putting out a 7.3L gas engine.
That's why they went with 7.3L and not 7.1 or 6.9 or 7.4 or 7.8.
That's what they try to achieve for every engine regardless of displacement.
Sure they try to achieve the ideal operations but they can do that with just about any displacement.
If they had a much loved 7.2L, you can bet they would have reworked it during design to be 7.2L.
I guess you're right. It ended up being a 7.3 due to their love of the old cornbinder engine.
I was only going by what the engineers said who designed the new 7.3.
other than liters, unlike the original 6.9/7.3 v8 idi diesels from ihc, they made great gas versions from those blocks too! that will not happen with todays motors no matter how you slice the cake. even IF ihc could have still made the T444E 7.3 version, which had 2 parts left over from the IDI version. Todays version would need to be different also due to as noted, EPA for both sound and air pollution standards. No different than the current GM 4.3 is not the original block design from the mid 80s, ie a 350 with 2 cyllinders lopped off. That block design ended with the vortec 4.3.
As noted, a good engine builder desinger can make ANY engine size run great. Question becomes, does it meet the end spec needed for what it is being used for!
Marty
