Diesel Trucks : The New American Muscle Car
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Diesel Trucks : The New American Muscle Car
Diesel Trucks : The New American Muscle Car
Ok.
This little rant isn’t meant to bash people who mod their trucks or people who own a truck and don’t pull anything.
No.
It’s a free country.
Do it!
This rant started off with a small question in my head and spawned into this full-on retrospect and neurotic prediction of diesel trucks, performance, trends, and competition when compared to events of recent history.
I don’t ask for these kinds of thoughts.
They just come to me, especially when Im not exactly sober.
I cant help it.
My mind wanders.
Im a vessle.
They just come to me!
Im sure most of what your about to read will seem very, very stupid.....and that’s ok.
Its all in good fun.
My dad has a new 07 6.7.
Pretty nice truck.
Sure the engine has little bugs to get worked out but for the most part its been a great truck in the past 6 months of ownership. Its pulled every trailer load we’ve put behind it like it was empty.
All thanks to 650lb-ft of torque.
Not long after we got it, a family friend who sells diesel chips tried to sells us a pre-order on a Bully Dog for the 6.7.
All my Dad and I could ask was, “why?”
Why would you need a chip?
You’ve already got over 300hp and 650lb-ft!
What more do you need?
That’s why I dont get the how people are so desperate to strait pipe and chip-up the 6.7.
If you haul and 650lb ft can’t help you get the job done, buy a semi truck or something.
You watch, by 2012, all diesel trucks will come factory with 1900lb-ft or something nuts like that.
Diesels are the new muscle cars when you think about it.
American made, tons of power, don’t handle or corner worth a **** so people race them in a straight line.
Just like an old Challenger or something.
And, seeing how a truck is built to pull, people even pull dead-weight in a straight line.
People even try to pull each other around.
Good, clean, American fun.
All provided by the Torque Wars we are in the middle of.
Every year or two the HP and TRQ ratings jump probably 25%...more and more, every year.
You watch, insurance companies will start charging more for trucks that make more than X-amount of TRQ.
So then the Big 3 will start lying about the HP and TRQ ratings, just like in the late 60’s.
Anyone remember the LS6 454 Chevelle? Rated at 450hp for insurance purposes, but it actually put out about 560hp!
The Big 3 will just put a cap on their ratings listings.
Then they’ll be under the radar and the Big 3 will just start cranking out more and more and more power!
Aftermarket companies will only add fuel to the fire!
They’ll make intakes and chips that’ll turn that factory 1900lb-ft truck into a 2890lb-ft monster!!
Itll get so bad that the Big 3 won’t be able to sell trucks with strong enough transmissions, transfer cases and rear-ends to handle the beast under the hood!
They’ll have to adapt. Soon you’ll be able to buy Dodge 1-ton dually with a Dana 200 or something insane like that under the bed. The axel gear box will measure 22” and require 6 ½ gallons of gear oil!
Automatic transmissions will almost be a thing of the past. You’ll be able to custom order a D-max with the trans right out of a fire truck in it. The trans tunnels on truck cabs will get so tall that center consoles will be a thing of the past.
Manual trans' will be set up like John Deer tracors with high and low range gears!
By 2020 factory trucks will be so powerful that even old farmers that keep their trucks stock will almost be unable to control their trucks! They’ll be flying down the road with 25 head of cattle in a 30ft gooseneck at 115mph. Cattle will either die of shock or die when the tires on the trailer blow out from the high speeds and weight and fresh beef is strewn across the asphalt like a bad burger joints grill.
The price of beef will escalate!
Drag strips will be constantly re-surfacing the tracks cause trucks will just chew up black-top like a buzz saw! Standing to close to a truck doing a burnout might result in being pelted with gravel and asphalt!
Sled pulling will change too! Tracks will have to extend up to 900ft and the weight classes would double if not triple as well. They'll soon result to pulling tracotr plows and 12-row disks through the earth to try and provide some weight to slow these trucks down.
AND at that point we’ll be glad we had so many emission standards placed on out trucks back in 2007.
If it weren’t for the new EGRs and particulate filters, in 2020, at the peak of this new, insane diesel war, the sky would be black like locusts for all the soot and smoke that would be pouring out of everyone’s tail pipes and stacks.
The sun would be dim over the U.S.!
People’s skin color would turn pale and we’d all have to walk around wearing face masks like China during the S.A.R.S. epidemic!
A face mask would be the new fashion statement at bars and clubs.
So, even with all the little problems the new emission standard engines are giving us, we must see that every cloud has a silver lining. The diesel war will only get worse….I mean that in a good way, and the EGR systems might be the only thing keeping America in the sunlight.
Ok.
This little rant isn’t meant to bash people who mod their trucks or people who own a truck and don’t pull anything.
No.
It’s a free country.
Do it!
This rant started off with a small question in my head and spawned into this full-on retrospect and neurotic prediction of diesel trucks, performance, trends, and competition when compared to events of recent history.
I don’t ask for these kinds of thoughts.
They just come to me, especially when Im not exactly sober.
I cant help it.
My mind wanders.
Im a vessle.
They just come to me!
Im sure most of what your about to read will seem very, very stupid.....and that’s ok.
Its all in good fun.
My dad has a new 07 6.7.
Pretty nice truck.
Sure the engine has little bugs to get worked out but for the most part its been a great truck in the past 6 months of ownership. Its pulled every trailer load we’ve put behind it like it was empty.
All thanks to 650lb-ft of torque.
Not long after we got it, a family friend who sells diesel chips tried to sells us a pre-order on a Bully Dog for the 6.7.
All my Dad and I could ask was, “why?”
Why would you need a chip?
You’ve already got over 300hp and 650lb-ft!
What more do you need?
That’s why I dont get the how people are so desperate to strait pipe and chip-up the 6.7.
If you haul and 650lb ft can’t help you get the job done, buy a semi truck or something.
You watch, by 2012, all diesel trucks will come factory with 1900lb-ft or something nuts like that.
Diesels are the new muscle cars when you think about it.
American made, tons of power, don’t handle or corner worth a **** so people race them in a straight line.
Just like an old Challenger or something.
And, seeing how a truck is built to pull, people even pull dead-weight in a straight line.
People even try to pull each other around.
Good, clean, American fun.
All provided by the Torque Wars we are in the middle of.
Every year or two the HP and TRQ ratings jump probably 25%...more and more, every year.
You watch, insurance companies will start charging more for trucks that make more than X-amount of TRQ.
So then the Big 3 will start lying about the HP and TRQ ratings, just like in the late 60’s.
Anyone remember the LS6 454 Chevelle? Rated at 450hp for insurance purposes, but it actually put out about 560hp!
The Big 3 will just put a cap on their ratings listings.
Then they’ll be under the radar and the Big 3 will just start cranking out more and more and more power!
Aftermarket companies will only add fuel to the fire!
They’ll make intakes and chips that’ll turn that factory 1900lb-ft truck into a 2890lb-ft monster!!
Itll get so bad that the Big 3 won’t be able to sell trucks with strong enough transmissions, transfer cases and rear-ends to handle the beast under the hood!
They’ll have to adapt. Soon you’ll be able to buy Dodge 1-ton dually with a Dana 200 or something insane like that under the bed. The axel gear box will measure 22” and require 6 ½ gallons of gear oil!
Automatic transmissions will almost be a thing of the past. You’ll be able to custom order a D-max with the trans right out of a fire truck in it. The trans tunnels on truck cabs will get so tall that center consoles will be a thing of the past.
Manual trans' will be set up like John Deer tracors with high and low range gears!
By 2020 factory trucks will be so powerful that even old farmers that keep their trucks stock will almost be unable to control their trucks! They’ll be flying down the road with 25 head of cattle in a 30ft gooseneck at 115mph. Cattle will either die of shock or die when the tires on the trailer blow out from the high speeds and weight and fresh beef is strewn across the asphalt like a bad burger joints grill.
The price of beef will escalate!
Drag strips will be constantly re-surfacing the tracks cause trucks will just chew up black-top like a buzz saw! Standing to close to a truck doing a burnout might result in being pelted with gravel and asphalt!
Sled pulling will change too! Tracks will have to extend up to 900ft and the weight classes would double if not triple as well. They'll soon result to pulling tracotr plows and 12-row disks through the earth to try and provide some weight to slow these trucks down.
AND at that point we’ll be glad we had so many emission standards placed on out trucks back in 2007.
If it weren’t for the new EGRs and particulate filters, in 2020, at the peak of this new, insane diesel war, the sky would be black like locusts for all the soot and smoke that would be pouring out of everyone’s tail pipes and stacks.
The sun would be dim over the U.S.!
People’s skin color would turn pale and we’d all have to walk around wearing face masks like China during the S.A.R.S. epidemic!
A face mask would be the new fashion statement at bars and clubs.
So, even with all the little problems the new emission standard engines are giving us, we must see that every cloud has a silver lining. The diesel war will only get worse….I mean that in a good way, and the EGR systems might be the only thing keeping America in the sunlight.
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I feel they are muscle cars of today. just the difference of you can pull trailers and drive them all year long thru the snow and bad conditions. a built car you cant. but I do love muscle cars and wish I had a couple of them also.
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X 3!!
Great read! I do look at my truck as my "muscle" car, daily driver, trailer puller and hobby.
Name another vehicle that can....
1. Potentially run the quarter in the 12s.
2. Get 18mpg
3. Pull 15k lb loads
4. protect the occupants from a 50 mph t-bone crash from a midsize car
5. Last 500,000 miles.
DODGE CUMMINS TURBO DIESEL!!!
Great read! I do look at my truck as my "muscle" car, daily driver, trailer puller and hobby.
Name another vehicle that can....
1. Potentially run the quarter in the 12s.
2. Get 18mpg
3. Pull 15k lb loads
4. protect the occupants from a 50 mph t-bone crash from a midsize car
5. Last 500,000 miles.
DODGE CUMMINS TURBO DIESEL!!!
