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Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

Feds — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:40:33 EST

I was going to say... I thought these people banned the Dixie Chicks for pointing out that there were no WMD's...

Feds

Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

elislider — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:01:43 EST

that was disgusting. i've actually seen a tractor pull once probably 10 years ago at the local county fair (in oregon, no less), tho i dont remember it being that bad. im pretty sure this took place in alabama or somethin, and i bet it was loud as hell

elislider

Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

Gradall — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:42:40 EST

If only everything could blow black coal like a Big Boy Locomotive headed up Donner Pass

Gradall

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PeteRR — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:00:23 EST

Don'y know if images will show up, but here's that 3/4 ton Cummins that scaled out at 43,000 lbs.
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PeteRR

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Euromobile — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:18:36 EST

@Shapeshifter: Slant Cummins?

Euromobile

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ecobore — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:11:48 EST

Now c'mon. Did you see the TG where they towed a combine harvester with a standard V10 VW Tuareg diesel! Kind of puts these specialist motors to shame! Would like to see a torque pull between that and the motor on here! Betcha the VW would win! But then there's really only one way to find out? C'mon TG, try it for us!

ecobore

Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

Shapeshifter — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:19:02 EST

@PeteRR:

"The Cummins is way too tall to fit in a car..."

He says! Hah! We'll show YOU! We'll show EVERYONE!

Shapeshifter

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hootjigga — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:27:25 EST

Things of loud, the diesel's cloud, like the gremlin truck from Maximum Overdrive, scares me.

hootjigga

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avarno — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:28:09 EST

@PeteRR: What, they don't work with cowl induction hoods? ;)

avarno

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PeteRR — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:09:32 EST

@avarno:

The Cummins is way too tall to fit in a car. That's why the Duramaxes are getting shoehorned into everything.

PeteRR

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avarno — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:28:14 EST

@Mad_Science: The better question is will it bolt in where most SBC's fit? I'm thinking 1000ft-lb 80's Malibu wagon. For the *really* heavy groceries.

avarno

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PeteRR — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:03:33 EST

@Mad_Science:
What I looked for, and found, was a wrecked '93. I ended up picking up the whole truck for $2k. It's important to buy the whole truck to get the wiring harness, the dashboard, and the fuel system. Those pieces made the conversion much easier.

PeteRR

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Mad_Science — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:35:43 EST

@PeteRR: Can you get those in any form resembling a crate engine?

There are so many pre-smog (or diesel) vehicles out there begging to be overloaded with 5.9L of goodness.

Mad_Science

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Danno4x4 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:25:45 EST

@Maymar: That big red thing that he was dragging behind him... That was his nuts!

Danno4x4

Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

Armand Bengle — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:23:30 EST

When discussing the badassness of Cummins Diesel motors, we should always remember that they've run at the Indy 500. Twice.

Armand Bengle

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PeteRR — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:00:10 EST

@Mad_Science:

Have you ever seen the crankshaft from a CTD? The sumbitch is 5 feet long and takes 2 guys to move it.

PeteRR

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Maymar - now with 37% less anonymity — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:47:47 EST

@beta.rogan: He needs a truck that powerful to lug around a set of Truck Nutz appropriate for a truck that powerful.

Maymar - now with 37% less anonymity

Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

Turboner — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:45:51 EST

@Mad_Science: "Anytime you can have head, you're better off." - There, I fixed it for you.

Turboner

Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

Mad_Science — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:35:08 EST

@PeteRR: Not to mention, any time you can have 1 head, 1 exhaust manifold, and 6 of everything instead of 8 (with equivalent power), you're better off.

My father-in-law has a Cummins 3/4 ton Dodge with like 110k on the ODO. It's just getting broken in.

Mad_Science

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79TA — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:34:13 EST

Actually some of those trucks can pull muscle car 1/4 mile times (low 12's, even 11's) and then go back out onto the road and get 20+ mpg. That's better than most traditional gasoline hot rodders can do.

79TA

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Placebo — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:22:59 EST

I'd like to see the size of his urea tank.
Wait, that didn't sound right.

Placebo

Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

PeteRR — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:14:29 EST

The Duramax and the Powerstoke can't make anywhere the power of the Cummins without seriously reinforcing their internals. The CTD is a medium truck engine in a light truck chassis.

PeteRR

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Mikeee — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:14:25 EST

"Ah'rite, torque to y'all later!" he said as he stepped on the throttle.

Mikeee

Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

Euromobile — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:00:22 EST

Anything that sounds like a railway locomotive is good in my book.

Euromobile

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bdon — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:56:55 EST

the v8 diesel will be the champ like a mack e9 in the rig world. Good riddens to that ridiculous queer bait straight six.(I know straight six diesel- they aren't nice. simply said.)

bdon

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NovaloadMissesPolar — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:49:28 EST

Every county fair in VA that I know about has a "truck and tractor pull" and sometimes they just skill the fair part and have the pull.

NovaloadMissesPolar

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PeteRR — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:28:26 EST

@SeanKHotay:
Renegade Diesel in the Lancaster, PA area. Mine was the first conversion he'd ever done. He's done few more since then. My crewcab is a 1975 Dodge lifted 4x4 dually w/ sheetmetal from a '93 and the interior from a '99.

PeteRR

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SeanKHotay — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:14:17 EST

Oh, man, I need to get my Jeep 6BT conversion going...

@PeteRR: Hey, who did yours? The only shop I know is in MT which would be my tank 'cause I'm in MI...

SeanKHotay

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chrystlubitshi — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:29:47 EST

my friends who run tow trucks swear by the cummins.. and some of the stuff i've seen them pull out of the ditch with that little ("light duty") tow truck (03 Ram w/some serious mods) is insane

chrystlubitshi

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PeteRR — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:19:02 EST

@Torqahontas: Indeed. Our 1-ton 2nd Gens were getting 25+ mpg. From an 8500 lb dually, that is amazing.

As to strength, I've got a pic of a 500 hp 2nd Gen pulling a loaded 40ft gooseneck trailer. He rolled across the scales at 43,000 lbs. He drove it from Nebraska to Alaska.

PeteRR

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Torqahontas — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:12:19 EST

I tend to disagree with the "Laughing in the Face of Fuel Economy" part. A run of the mill "super stock" puller is going to get better mileage than the average 5.4L F-150 that you Americans purchase by the boat load. Maybe not the balls-to-the-wall 12V with a huge single turbo on it like in the video, but the average 500-600hp truck will pull off 20mpg on the highway.

@WheatKing:
I agree, the 6BT Cummins is the king of factory engines for sheer "overbuiltness" (that's a word, look it up).I nominate it as the engine of the century.

And the new 6.7L seems to be extremely beefy, but they haven't got anywhere near its limits yet because it is new. The only thing better than a Cummins is a bigger Cummins.

Torqahontas

Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

WheatKing — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:50:48 EST

a guy running around my old home town had a cummins 12V tuned to about 1000hp.. at 2500rpm.. that's right in about 2100ft-lbs of torque.

yea.. cummins engines ROCK.. if dodge didn't have them, no one would buy dodge trucks.

The new 6.7L is supposedly even stronger.

What ever happened to the engine of the week?

WheatKing

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smokeydog001 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:40:12 EST

Not half as good as a tractor pull. The Dixie Chicks wouldn't be too welcome at a pull in the south. They'd probably do better in San Francisco pulling a train.

smokeydog001

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respawn — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:34:46 EST

@Mad_Science: Forget that. I want a picture of a boost gauge showing 100psi. :)

respawn

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Mad_Science — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:23:10 EST

@Rust-MyEnemy: "It's good to torque"

I want that on a shirt, preferable accompanied by a gratuitous exhibition of torque (wrinkle-wall drag slicks, frame twist, stump pulling, Jeep climbing a 75° slope, or the R8 TDi).

Mad_Science

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PeteRR — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:16:01 EST

Those Cummins I-6 motors are insanely strong. All they do to contain that kind of power is O-ring the head. The guy who did the Cummins conversion on my crewcab has one he races. His '98 is making right around 800hp and 2300 ft/lbs of torque. Boost is 100psi.

PeteRR

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MeDuh — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:15:10 EST

@RoninianHoon: PBR - gosh

MeDuh

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DustyButt — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:52:52 EST

** LEE GREENWOOD's "GOD BLESS THE U.S.A." plays**

DUSTYBUTT SINGS ALONG... LOUDLY.

...And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
And I'd gladly stand up...

*DUSTYBUTT STANDS*

...next to you and defend her still today.
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God bless the U.S.A.

*DUSTYBUTT WEEPS OPENLY*

DustyButt

Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

Ben Wojdyla — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:49:55 EST

@Mad_Science: We were the minor leagues around home in Indiana. The unlimited classes definitely run a lot more power (and propane injection, and water injection).

Ben Wojdyla

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Rust-MyEnemy is stll out there! — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:46:30 EST

Wow. Even the truckest of trucks struggle to throw that much black clag in the air.

Trillions of pounds foot.

It's good to torque.

Rust-MyEnemy is stll out there!

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Mad_Science — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:30:04 EST

@Danno4x4: Iceland?

Mad_Science

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Mad_Science — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:29:37 EST

"Eight or Nine hundred pound feet of torque"
(too good for digits?)

...I'd guess more like 1500-2000lb-ft. These things will get disturbing amounts of frame-twist on a reinforced 1 ton chassis.

Mad_Science

Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

sos10 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:13:15 EST

@muhnkee_2: it's an american sport.. The winner gets the Golden Cup holder.

sos10

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Danno4x4 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:02:25 EST

Really there's not another place in the world that makes vehicles capable of that much power... Save perhaps Australia.

Danno4x4

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RoninianHoon — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:59:52 EST

I love Diesel, but dam I really love me some PRB

RoninianHoon

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acarr260 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:59:06 EST

@AllenK: What's that supposed to mean? The states that surround us (especially to the south) are way more redneck than us. Think of it as Busch Light versus Pabst / Natty Ice.

acarr260

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AllenK — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:53:53 EST

@MarionCobretti:

I do too!

AllenK

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Dr. Spaceman, Esq. — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:47:45 EST

@muhnkee_2: No

Dr. Spaceman, Esq.

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racerx — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:45:00 EST

Particulates?! What particulates?

racerx

Diesel Truck Pulling Laughs in Face of Fuel Economy

nassin2 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:42:42 EST

Who had the great idea to score this with the Chixie Dicks?

nassin2

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beta.rogan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:38:43 EST

Wow, I can't believe they can do that with production vehicles...I bet he has some huge Truck Nuts. As for torque numbers...I'd say that has to be over 1000lb/ft easy. I've dyno'd just plain old chipped Big American Diesel Trucks that make 700-850+ at the wheels

beta.rogan

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MarionCobretti — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:36:34 EST

@AllenK:

As a native Hoosier, I take umbrage at your remark. We much prefer dirt track USAC sprint car racing and demolition derbies.

MarionCobretti

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amblito — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:36:11 EST

People go and watch this? And find it entertaining?

It's not even half as good the Rotary Club Bus Pull in my local park.

amblito

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Tomsk — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:32:46 EST

@way_down_east:

Tomsk

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AllenK — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:30:59 EST

That had to be shot in Indiana.

AllenK

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way_down_east — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:29:56 EST

The man grunt, as transcribed by Mr. Allen himself, and memorialized on the valve covers of his cars, is written "Rr Rr Rr". You may refer to reruns to hear how that is pronounced.

way_down_east

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muhnkee_2 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:29:51 EST

is that a sport?

muhnkee_2

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CafeRacer1200 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:29:02 EST

I'd be willing to bet a fiver that Greenpeace is not a sponsor.

CafeRacer1200

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brandegee — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:26:47 EST

Would've been better if the running-sideways-with-beer-can guy fell down. Instead, he's a hero...

brandegee

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max-hiding-in-the-forrest32 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:24:18 EST

I had to watch that twice it was so good.

No shit.

max-hiding-in-the-forrest32

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BMWCARL — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:09:28 EST

Dixie Chicks?

BMWCARL

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TriShield — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:07:29 EST

Now THAT'S a diesel.

TriShield

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voodoojoo — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:07:25 EST

This would be more fun with added fire.

voodoojoo