Cummins vs Powerstroke

[Sevensecondsuv]

And it takes me 9 seconds to force my M50D into second gear so it's not a canidate for a race truck.

Either your exaggerating or there's something wrong with it. I'm halfway through 3rd in 9 seconds.....

And don't start asking for pink slips because I'll be the first to admit there aren't any. This was on a wide, level stretch of back road in the middle of nowhere. The timer was another guy sitting the passenger seat of the duramax with a stopwatch. So yeah, there is about 1 second uncertainty in the times I was quoting, lol.

I'm too cheap to take it to the real track.

 

[Will]

I won't ask for a mid to high 13 pink slip. And yes, I was joking. My M50D seems clunky to me.

 

[bobbywalter]

Nope. It runs mid-high 13s like this duramax. They were very close in the drag race. We tried several times and he won some and I won some. A 4x4 duramax/allison is much easier to launch than a 2wd manual ranger. If I had my launches down the results would have been more consistant. There's a very fine line between leaving with the turbo spooled and rubber burning and bogging the engine and going nowhere fast. And yes, the M5OD is holding up great for me (although it does have a centerforce clutch). I'm thinking of getting one built for a 2.3 with the 4.0 gearset because at 16-17 psi, 1st gear in the 2.3 version goes by rather quickly....

There was a guy running 12's with an M5OD over at www.rangersrevenge.com I think he's got a C4 now though.

Nope. It runs mid-high 13s like this duramax. They were very close in the drag race. We tried several times and he won some and I won some. A 4x4 duramax/allison is much easier to launch than a 2wd manual ranger. If I had my launches down the results would have been more consistant. There's a very fine line between leaving with the turbo spooled and rubber burning and bogging the engine and going nowhere fast. And yes, the M5OD is holding up great for me (although it does have a centerforce clutch). I'm thinking of getting one built for a 2.3 with the 4.0 gearset because at 16-17 psi, 1st gear in the 2.3 version goes by rather quickly....

There was a guy running 12's with an M5OD over at www.rangersrevenge.com I think he's got a C4 now though.

12's with a daily driver 4 wheezer and m5od is excellent. i cant begin to tell you how well i understand traction issues at the dragstrip or truck pulls, i dont go to tracks much these days, but 12 second big block or insane stroker small block trucks that are still mild enough to be daily drivers are rare in most areas, let alone 4 cyinder gassers. mid 13,s has seemed to be the wall the last 10 years or so, so i am not surprised there.




but think of it this way. running with an 7-8 thousand pound cowboy cadillac takes the wow out of 13's...the traction thing is weak sounding....but, beating any stockish 80's and most 90's mustangs on the other hand is looking at it better.

i have seen quite a few 7000 pound plus hi 11-low 12 diesel trucks that can actually detune to 20 mpg highway with just the truck and passengers for the ride home from the track, or mid teens towing a 10 second car behind them. and i have seen alot more 7000 plus trucks running 13's then any 4 cylinder trucks. so these 4 wheezers gone 4 whizzer are alot more unique and have a bigger cool factor to me.


if onlythey didnt sound like pissed off weed wackers.

 

[Sevensecondsuv]

...if onlythey didnt sound like pissed off weed wackers.

It must be the shimmed valve springs and hardened valves seats and muffler I've got on it, but I've actually had a lot of people think it was a diesel pickup when they heard it coming Needless to say they are a little surprised when they see an old ranger. Right now I'm working on a dual 2.5" outlet system for it with Dynomax Super turbo mufflers (pretty much the most quiet high flow muffler you can get) because the older I get the less I like loud exhausts. Right now it's got a single 3" mandrel bent exhaust from the turbo back with a muffler that is basically a perforated tube with an oval shell around it, with no packing at all. Needless to say the sound level is a little over the top.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

its all about the cummins,

also i read in an earlier post talking about the 6.4 injector recall . . . . there was no such recall . . . it never happened im guessing your source was on you-tube . . . well the 3 techs, service maneger and service writer who made that video lost their jobs because it wasnt a recall at all and they pissed off ford cause they kept getting a bunch of people coming in wanting the recall taken care of and people sueing ford for not upholding a recall when there was no such recall. the reason those trucks would shoot out flames was not because of the injectors it was retards that dont know how do drive a diesel with DPF. they drive it lightly and that causes the dpf to build then the ecm sees this buildup of PM and starts dumping a bunch of fuel on the exhaust stroke this is called active regeneration. and because the egt's were not hight enought it wouldnt light off the dpf so it would go into another active regen, then it would light off and shoot flames, if the truck were to be run right it would only go into passive regeneration and it would not shoot flames. not to mention for active regen to be affective it has to be high idle or moving, it cant be at idle. regen will only start at a part throttle condition anyways but it takes about 30 seconds to complete depending on how plugged the DOC and DPF is

My brother is a certified Ford tech, he showed it to me on Fords website a couple weeks ago. It is a fairly new recall. The list of affected VIN's is forty some odd pages long, they have it broken down to the affected injectors (not every injector on every truck is recalled) An o-ring fails and the engine takes on fuel in the engine oil, which can potentially ruin the engine.

This is the actually fuel injectors that put diesel into the engine, not the particulate filter thing that shot fire out the exhaust pipe. That was merely solved by reprogramming the computer. It was rare and hard to make it happen, but Ford issued a new program to eliminate the possibility altogether.

 

[drifterawh]

Cat just to big. A friend put a 3208 in his chevy dully had to do big time firewall fab. cool when done . cummins is my choice