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Jay
01-31-2005, 12:06 PM
Heres my friend's '99 Chevy 2500 Series. 6.3L Turbo Diesel(530-560hp, 740ft/lbs), Super Crew, and 8-foot bed. 13 inches of lift, SFA(Solid-Front Axle), and 39.5 inch Super Swamper SSRs. I think he gets 5mpg, and costs $80 to fill! It can pull 30 foot oak tree's out of the ground.

http://img55.exs.cx/img55/3541/chevy17ud.jpg

http://img55.exs.cx/img55/9100/chevy28bf.jpg

http://img55.exs.cx/img55/6123/chevy32ip.jpg

http://img55.exs.cx/img55/2070/chevytire17du.jpg
MorningCruiser
01-31-2005, 01:34 PM
It's not possible to get that poor of gas milage with a diesel, not even the turd diesel (aka, the GM)...

If you aren't a mud bogger, try running Baja Claws, you'll notice they wear slower and get better traction than anything in the size range unless you want to order MT/Rs...

I see a shackle reversal on the front, that's different... I presume that the front end isn't a stock 12bolt with cclip is it? Can't see the diff... 14 bolt off of a one ton? Biggest beef ever with GM is the fact that it has IFS in one tons now... Stupid stupid stupid...

Regardless, have fun, but watch your intake box, those diesels HATE dust and dirt...

PS: Get a snorkel kit if you ever play in mud/water... Diesels are basically waterproof due to CI, so with a snorkel, you can go as deep as the intake ;)
Tonk
01-31-2005, 01:41 PM
It's not possible to get that poor of gas milage with a diesel, not even the turd diesel (aka, the GM)...


Anything is possible......maybe his bad gas mileage is because of how his gears are set up. Or maybe because of the huge amount of horsepower.
MorningCruiser
01-31-2005, 01:46 PM
He'd need to be running 4.88s or higher to get stupid milage like that... And you don't need crawler gears in a huge rig with massive power...

You have to remember that diesel engines are designed to maintain efficiency at full load, there's lots and lots of high high horsepower ford and dodge diesels that hardly lose any milage over stock... There's lots of duallies that lay down close to 1000hp and still get 15-20mpg when doing so... That and most of the people who run said rigs use switchable computers which have a "Valet" mode built in, which limits the engine so that you aren't putting down 800HP on the street all the time... I know many people who have trouble towing when putting down over 500hp simply because their trucks break the wheels loose all the time when they have 10,000lbs strapped to their ass.
Tonk
01-31-2005, 01:49 PM
I worked at a Ford dealership last year. The F-250 6.0L turbo diesel got about 17-20 mpg on the highway (it had an overhead console and you could see your avg. mpg) On the main roads it got about 12-15. Maybe he gets such bad gas mileage because he starts it up and lets it run for a little while to warm up in the winter.
MorningCruiser
01-31-2005, 01:53 PM
I don't mean to slam everything but Dodges, but for the simple sake of milage alone, Dodge is the way to go... The I6 gets milage that nothing else can...

The average milage on overhead consoles is a "Best guess" made by the computer, which is judged by pump pressure, and is far more inaccurate on diesels than on gasoline engines (which is inaccurate aswell)... However, the Ford and Dodge engines get much better milage when NOT stock, most diesels in Calgary run straight exhausts simply because we have no emissions testing and you can run a 4" pipe right out the back with no problems, including sound levels due to the turbo...

It still shouldn't get 8MPG, that's worse milage than what my Jeep gets, and my jeep is a brick, and a high output diesel aswell.
RaVeR
01-31-2005, 02:03 PM
heh thats bad ass you can runover ricers with that thing :D
mtaylor
01-31-2005, 02:30 PM
funny thing is ford owns cummings
MorningCruiser
01-31-2005, 02:37 PM
Ford owns Cummins yes, but Cummins has a contract with Dodge that doesn't expire for a long time, thus Ford signed a contract with International... Ford is still trying to get Cummins to begin producing a V8 configuation truck engine, so that they can begin to run a Cummins V8 in the Ford trucks... Dodge has all the rights to all engines developed in the 6BT family...
chunky
01-31-2005, 02:44 PM
nice, at the NOPI nats there was a yellow H2 that had a 14 inch lift and 44"s on it, as much as i hate H2's that thing would be hella fun to drive.

our jeep (5.2L V8)has that little MPG computer thing, and if i floor it from a stop in 4X4 will drop down to 4-6MPH
Tonk
01-31-2005, 02:45 PM
our jeep (5.2L V8)has that little MPG computer thing, and if i floor it from a stop in 4X4 will drop down to 4-6MPH

When Top Gear tested the H2, when they did that it went down to 1mpg :rofl:
chunky
01-31-2005, 03:04 PM
I WANT THIS!!!
http://img101.exs.cx/img101/3346/2005013100019kr.jpg
it has " 53" tires, 18" lift, and requires a custom-fabricated drop hitch to attach the boat"

http://img179.exs.cx/img179/3230/2005013100029al.jpg
the boat has a "502ci big block running a intercooled procharger at 7psi putting down 735hp and has hit a speeds of over 90mph.":devil:
Jay
01-31-2005, 03:21 PM
^^Those are the Michelins, bad ass.


nice, at the NOPI nats there was a yellow H2 that had a 14 inch lift and 44"s on it, as much as i hate H2's that thing would be hella fun to drive.

our jeep (5.2L V8)has that little MPG computer thing, and if i floor it from a stop in 4X4 will drop down to 4-6MPH
H2's are shit...I hate the soccermoms that drive them. Anyways he's thinking, or was that he would get a couple more leaves and put 42-46 inch Iroks!! We'll see.

Yes he does get 5mpg, when you tow like we do, 5Klbs on average. We recorded his trip from pump to pump(empty), and it averaged out to around 5.3 or something. This was on a normal day.
chunky
01-31-2005, 03:28 PM
those are goodyear DOT tires
mikemc
01-31-2005, 04:36 PM
wow that thing is beast
Jay
01-31-2005, 04:46 PM
those are goodyear DOT tires

Mine, Goodyear ST-R 225s.
MorningCruiser
01-31-2005, 04:48 PM
Those are Goodyear XMLs or ZXLs (cannot see the pic), and btw, my Durango goes down to 0MPG when I floor it with any load on it... It does it if I floor it coming around a corner with no load aswell...

Tell your friend to look into running something other than leaves or getting a modified spring pack made by Standens or something, because if he adds more leaves to it to get extra lift he'll lose flex...

Oh, and 5,000lbs isn't a heavy load, that's light, that thing should pull 8,000 easy... Heck, 10,000 even... Factory my Durango is rated to tow 7800lbs, if a diesel 3/4ton can't pull that like there's no tommorow something is wrong ;)

What do you tow with it? and in what configuration?
H00T
01-31-2005, 08:16 PM
" think he gets 5mpg, and costs $80 to fill!"
OMG!!! Man that is nuts.
DUSTIN WORLES
01-31-2005, 09:08 PM
Jay, I want video of that damn thing! Email me.
kruthers
01-31-2005, 09:33 PM
that is my kind of ride right there! I cant wait to get my truck
UnlucKy E34
01-31-2005, 10:01 PM
Haha WAssup Jay. Didn't know your a Teck head too!
Jay
01-31-2005, 10:17 PM
Yeah man, been here from the start.

Dustin I will, I've got a GL2 laying around here somewhere.

The thing about lifting it, we don't take it wheelin, it makes money! The last time was a couple weeks ago, he got waved down to pull some kids out and he got stuck on the last kid. Had to call a 52ton wrecker(the ones used to tow the semi's, pretty much a dump-truck with a hook. I hope to get it within a week or two I need to get some work done at the farm...our rig is done. Blew a piston straight through the head!
Jay
01-31-2005, 10:19 PM
His tires are Super Swamper SSR's!
Jay
01-31-2005, 10:29 PM
Dustin, your email won't work on gmail? For some reason it says it doesn't recognize it or some shit. I used my hotmail??? I hate that.
lite
01-31-2005, 10:40 PM
That's massive.
Jay
01-31-2005, 10:41 PM
How big was the truck in FL, in Mischief? Looked like 44's?
Verbose Mustafa
02-01-2005, 10:13 AM
I still say build a small tube frame mid engine setup and put that engine in it. My god that thing would move and probably get like 40 mpg becuse of the lack of weight it has to haul.
Jay
02-01-2005, 10:21 AM
Yes but do you know how hard it is to make those things street legal, plus there expensive as hell. Steel is getting more and more expensive, you could throw a small block in from a junker, then you've got axles, tires, seats, cooling steering.....in goes on for awhile.
hyjnx
02-01-2005, 06:23 PM
i love it! lets see it wreck some shit up!
MorningCruiser
02-01-2005, 07:10 PM
Yes but do you know how hard it is to make those things street legal, plus there expensive as hell. Steel is getting more and more expensive, you could throw a small block in from a junker, then you've got axles, tires, seats, cooling steering.....in goes on for awhile.

One just got built here, for under $15,000... That's easily how much that truck has in it...

I could do it for about the same, and he used super strength alum for links too, and king coils I do believe, and they're $1500/ea
Casse
02-01-2005, 10:45 PM
That's one powerful truck....
MorningCruiser
02-02-2005, 12:16 AM
That's one powerful truck....

You obviously have no idea what drag diesels run... to them 1000HP is a joke, and that's from near stock engines with bigger turbos and stronger injector pumps... Diesel tuning makes gasoline tuning a joke, for under $30,000 you can have a ridiculous engine, with more reliability and strength than any gasoline engine ever will...

There's quite a few trucks in the Calgary area that put down 800HP to the wheels all day every day, year round, even in six inches of snow... A couple thousand and you're looking at 550hp or more...