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Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher
Um, yes you have a nice truck, but I'm guessing you haven't found the diesels with real power. My 05 with a smarty programmer runs low 14's in the quarter at 8200lbs. I have customer trucks that run in the 11's and are street trucks. I'm sure your truck is fast with 400hp, but it isn't hard to get 400hp out of a newer diesel. Go find a duramax guy that has efi live and let me know how that race goes.  Again, I'm not trying to be a jerk or discredit you. My little brother is in SoCal and he is telling me all the time there are all those punks out blowing smoke making all the other diesel owners look like crap. I'm guessing those are just air heads and punks? |
Apples and oranges,
I have a "normally" aspirated low dollar motor w/cast iron camel back heads and 10:1 comp on pump gas. I have maybe $2500.00 total in my motor and it will blow the tires off all day long in first unless i pedal it with a tight torque converter and still get squirrly in second.
Don't get me wrong u can put enough cubic dollars into anything and make it go fast!!! I never said that their weren't exotic black smoke spewing diesels out there that I can beat. Ive got (u-tube too)!!
When u can build a diesel from the bottom up for $2500.00 that will keep up with the same amount of money in the gas burner then u got an argument.
For what u have in those 11 sec diesels im building a 572 chev w/nitrous then let me know how that race goes lol...dont get me wrong im not trying to be a jerk or anything.
Ive seen a honda rice burner normally aspirated motor run in the 10 sec.
range but i bet he has 20k in the motor......so what!!!!...20k
Bottom line: dollar for dollar (which is all that really matters in a true comparison) u can go faster in a gas burner than a diesel. Not just your mods but the cost of the entire motor, turbo,waste gate, chips, tuning etc. your well over 10k-12k and thats if u do all the work yourself. and your might be in the 12-13 sec range .....wow. I have a friend that has 12k in his gas burner and runs high 9's low 10's all day on the street.
(nothing says "hot rod" more than black smoke and engine knocking)
When i pull into a gas station or car show or a freakin dairy queen my thumpr cammed small block dually draws a crowd every time. The diesel gets lost in the parking lot with all the other trucks and that annoying knocking sound really gets people exited ..............I digress.....................