Street Duramax Trucks to be banned
- Thread starter McRat
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If "someone" could show me a greater incidence of diesel pickup accidents than cars or gasoline trucks at the >11.50 range, or more serious injuries, I will apologize to every Goat Boy on CD that I offended. Which is all of them!
I've been to hundreds of drag events, and diesel pickup accidents are far lower than:
Mustang
Lightning
SRT-10
Corvette
Viper
Camaro
Firebird
Even when we do have trouble, there is seldom a serious injury.
But that "kinetic energy essay" cuts nothing with me. That reasoning would indicate the most injuries are coming from the Big Rigs, and the Mustangs are the safest.
For Christs sake...are we really splitting hairs down that small ?
You do realize there are other makes of diesel trucks right ? Some of those trucks do weigh more than your average DMax.
Some of them are over *GASP*....8000 lbs.
My 2wd CC short bed F250 weighs 7600lbs with me in it.
It's got a lot of stuff added to it....but that's irrelevant.
If "someone" could show me a greater incidence of diesel pickup accidents than cars or gasoline trucks at the >11.50 range, or more serious injuries, I will apologize to every Goat Boy on CD that I offended. Which is all of them!
I've been to hundreds of drag events, and diesel pickup accidents are far lower than:
Mustang
Lightning
SRT-10
Corvette
Viper
Camaro
Firebird
Even when we do have trouble, there is seldom a serious injury.
But that "kinetic energy essay" cuts nothing with me. That reasoning would indicate the most injuries are coming from the Big Rigs, and the Mustangs are the safest.
Where do you think that would stand if there were an equal amount of ~11.50 diesels running as there are the other cars you mention ?
Dude.
There are NO other brands than GM Duramaxes. The others are just wannabes.
Hear that sound? hssss....
That's your Ford's future dissipating. :hello:
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I most often see the 13 second Mustang/Camaro/Vette/Viper/Sporttruck go into the wall.
Why? Dunno. I could venture a guess that most the 300+ HP sportscars run in that time slot, and they are very common.
true, but some people were wanting to completely overhaul the rules based on one run.
so from pictures i have seen of you and lumping myself in there with you we are more likely to have a truck flip over than a smaller lighter person.i gotta go on a diet
This is a bad analogy and typical of a lot of you Comp guys.
Let's say we both are sky divers and are ready to jump out of the plane. Are we both in over our heads? Damn right; but one of us decides to do it without a properly packed chute and just holds it in his hand till he's ready to deploy it.
Next move is to contact all gov. agencies and have this investigated. They in turn will set new safety rules for everybody and find a way to tax it and make it impossible to have any fun anymore. Nothing happens to the guy that held his chute in his hand; he's forgotten. He is a nice guy with a wonderfull family and everyone likes him.
I thought it sounded pretty good myself.
You do realize that I'm not jumping on you; just agreeing to disagree.
Hey there, easy...
I'm not the one who went out shopping for a truck...
And came home with a FORD????
J/K I had a couple of Ford trucks.
Then I got a good job.