Dodge boys never learn

[TDFDiesel]

yeah, only because they drive the baddest of the bad. We're fast because we put down over 1000 ft/lbs of tq with our massively heavy engines. It's badass because we can go fast in an 8000+ lb vehicle. Too bad they can't build a lightweight diesel that doesn't require a super heavy frame to support all the weight. Imagine how much fuel they could save. Oh wait, VW has diesels getting 60 mpg even though they can't pull 20,000 lbs but then again when was the last time you saw a diesel truck with a load behind it? Just messing with you guys. Diesel trucks have a place and it is pulling a load. I'd like to have one but I'm not laying out $50,000 to buy a new diesel rig. Maybe I can buy me a Kodiak truck and have a real diesel.

I saw what you did thar many times.... but the Kodiak has the same Duramax we have.... but I wouldn't take a '11+ one if you gave it to me.... NO EFI Live support, and that makes me sad, My LMM fk'n scoots for a big ass heavy truck and I can latch onto 20k lbs and tow the fk out of it.

Maybe one day when I want to laydown the scratch for a new air dryer spinny thingy I will go after vets in my 7500+ lbs rig (tool box full of tools too!)

The Modded LSX trucks are badass, I will admit and I want one. I just have a need for a diesel and it makes more sense for me.

Be like Andrew and run 11s with 37" tires, haha...

I don't know for sure but if you put a turbo on a gas engine of the same cubic inch as a diesel and run the same boost, what would power and torque #'s look like from diesel to gas just wondering?

Very different.

[408.Luke]

Which tune? Rob will sacrifice a couple tenths on the quarter mile for reliability on a truck that isn't meant for racing.

I'm sorry, but I think that is a very ignorant thing to say.

Even if the trucks were the same mods, you introduce a LOT of variables. Driver is a HUGE one.

I don't judge tuners are their ability to make HP, I just them on their ability to make power without sacrificing unnecessary reliability and drive ability.

A bad tune can easily cause $3-15k in damages to a truck.

Wooooooh there take a breath, I'm just messing about the whole Idaho rob thing. Just joking around about it because everyone runs his tunes (and for a reason) my tune is very reliable, and it's nice to have my tuner live 1/2 a mile away from me. My diesel is by no means my race truck or a race truck. My Silvy SS is (130 trap).

[RedHeartbeat]

I saw what you did thar many times.... but the Kodiak has the same Duramax we have.... but I wouldn't take a '11+ one if you gave it to me.... NO EFI Live support, and that makes me sad, My LMM fk'n scoots for a big ass heavy truck and I can latch onto 20k lbs and tow the fk out of it.

Maybe one day when I want to laydown the scratch for a new air dryer spinny thingy I will go after vets in my 7500+ lbs rig (tool box full of tools too!)

The Modded LSX trucks are badass, I will admit and I want one. I just have a need for a diesel and it makes more sense for me.

Believe me, if I had a Kodiak, modding it would be the last thing on my mind. I would be in retirement mode dragging my fifth wheel travel trailer down the highway and joining the rest of the snowbird flock in the south during the winter and pulling up north in the summer. I get a kick out of the big rig drivers drag racing. It's cool to watch the exhibition rail dragsters with the diesel engines in them but still they don't go fast enough to contend with similar vehicles in the gas engine world. It is no comparison to when they threw a pair of turbos on a small block, put it in a funny car running gasoline instead of nitro-methane and beat the pants off a top fuel funny car, only to be banned from competition by the NHRA.

[MudDoc]

I don't know for sure but if you put a turbo on a gas engine of the same cubic inch as a diesel and run the same boost, what would power and torque #'s look like from diesel to gas just wondering?

You would surely be out of MAP very quickly, Gassers for the most part can run much larger turbos than a diesel and at the same time have less gain due to powerband and spooling.

With a Diesel you can run a somewhat larger than stock charger and provided you have the fuel to spool can see HUGE gains on the pwr end... not so much on gassers.

But all in all turbo's are badass anyways

[96/chevy/pu]

Well no matter anyway, Like Red said and couldn't put it better. there a place for diesel but its not on race track

[MudDoc]

Believe me, if I had a Kodiak, modding it would be the last thing on my mind. I would be in retirement mode dragging my fifth wheel travel trailer down the highway and joining the rest of the snowbird flock in the south during the winter and pulling up north in the summer. I get a kick out of the big rig drivers drag racing. It's cool to watch the exhibition rail dragsters with the diesel engines in them but still they don't go fast enough to contend with similar vehicles in the gas engine world. It is no comparison to when they threw a pair of turbos on a small block, put it in a funny car running gasoline instead of nitro-methane and beat the pants off a top fuel funny car, only to be banned from competition by the NHRA.

link to said occurrence so I can LAWL at butthurt nitro-meth guys

[MudDoc]

Well no matter anyway, Like Red said and couldn't put it better. there a place for diesel but its not on race track

no.... just no

[RedHeartbeat]

Oh hell, that happened so long ago that even YouTube wasn't around at the time.

[MudDoc]

Oh hell, that happened so long ago that even YouTube wasn't around at the time.

that had to be uber lulzy

[RedHeartbeat]

no.... just no

Ever seen a diesel oil down a track vs a gas engine? 6 quarts cleans up quick. 6 gallons shuts a track down for a very long time. Last time I saw one scatter at NorthStar it shut down one lane for the rest of the night because they ran clean out of oil dry trying to clean the mess up.