V-10 problems
I started out years ago towing our 7,000 lb trailer with my old chevy 2500 with the 350. I tow mostly in the Sierra and Rocky Mts. I hated the way I had to slow down to 45 mph going up the grades. So ...
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Thanks Bryan.
I'm not a big deep gear fan, but I agree with everything you said about them.
This gear thing all started with 2, 3, and 4 speed transmissions. With low power, and not very many gears you needed to jack up the gears in the back to have and chance of making it up a mountain or have any duty cycle at all. With modern 6, 8 and even 10 speeds and big "POWER" there really is no need to have crazy gears in the rear end anymore.
I remember when Ford came out with their "high power" oil burner the whining really started. :B Man, the old timers really didn't like the 340's that Ford put out back. I took one look at the power they were putting out and said to myself; they will be fine. And they were.
The biggest problems I see on this forum and a lot of other forums is reluctance to put an engine into its power band. They have some weird phobia about RPM. If you "need" maximum power, you need to put the engines RPM where maximum power is made. In the old days you had to look at charts and grafts and all of that garbage. Now days the vehicles computer does all the work for us. No need to look anything up. Just put your right foot to the floor and you will make all of the HP the engine can make. The computer "will not" let the engine over rev. Not going to happen; EVER!
K9, if you or anybody else wants to learn about gears and power here is a physics forum that answers that question.
Making less power with gears.
Ben here is a good article about what I was talking about. No need to do your own dyno run. They do it for you!
BTW, Merry Christmas to all of you RV'ers out there!
I'm not a big deep gear fan, but I agree with everything you said about them.
This gear thing all started with 2, 3, and 4 speed transmissions. With low power, and not very many gears you needed to jack up the gears in the back to have and chance of making it up a mountain or have any duty cycle at all. With modern 6, 8 and even 10 speeds and big "POWER" there really is no need to have crazy gears in the rear end anymore.
I remember when Ford came out with their "high power" oil burner the whining really started. :B Man, the old timers really didn't like the 340's that Ford put out back. I took one look at the power they were putting out and said to myself; they will be fine. And they were.
The biggest problems I see on this forum and a lot of other forums is reluctance to put an engine into its power band. They have some weird phobia about RPM. If you "need" maximum power, you need to put the engines RPM where maximum power is made. In the old days you had to look at charts and grafts and all of that garbage. Now days the vehicles computer does all the work for us. No need to look anything up. Just put your right foot to the floor and you will make all of the HP the engine can make. The computer "will not" let the engine over rev. Not going to happen; EVER!
K9, if you or anybody else wants to learn about gears and power here is a physics forum that answers that question.
Making less power with gears.
Ben here is a good article about what I was talking about. No need to do your own dyno run. They do it for you!
BTW, Merry Christmas to all of you RV'ers out there!
