World's Fastest Ram Srt10 Video (March 2011)
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If I'm not mistaken the truck on the video gets around 14 - 16 combo (Street/Hwy) MPG.
i look forward to hearing you get some faster times. but you should meet some of the guys on here that on paper and at the track run 9s. be a fun race. we have a top 50 list take a pick at which one you would like to race im sure they will find the time
Top 50
http://www.duramaxdiesels.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23137&page=27
To even make the list you need to run a 11.50 or so
I like the SRT-10 Rams but for the money and what they can do I will stick to my diesel.
http://www.duramaxdiesels.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23137&page=27
To even make the list you need to run a 11.50 or so
I like the SRT-10 Rams but for the money and what they can do I will stick to my diesel.
Hell my 79 Z28 with my home built 406 sbc with the small 250 shot ran 10.67 @ 133.80 on dot m&h's full exhaust street car with the old 8 track that still worked lol and that was over 14 years ago lol. The little v6 I have been looking at would walk all over those 10 holes lol. But my love is my diesel 14 to 16 around town 20 to 23 hwy mpg hell I towed the wifes Suburban on a full deck 18' trailer and I stayed at 17 to 18 mpg.
Anyhow Brad :hug:
A hot truck is a hot truck.:woott:
This is good-hearted smack talk. In general, we aren't big Dodge fans, but variety makes the world more interesting.
What state is this truck based out of?
Not at all impressed ... Wonder what frame it has under it ... Looks like a 4 link out back ... Again not impressed
you know lightnings are good because brian earl spliner drives a red lightning, and he likes it.
except when he gets mad and smashes the lower bumper/valance by driving it into a curb.
Or maybe he just likes it because Harry gave it to him to drive, I dunno.
Ben
lol :roflmao: poor truck you would have thought the would have done a retake on that one
i would like to see a total cost comparison between a 9 sec. duramax and a 9 sec. srt-10..... one of the local guys had the fastest stock longblock viper. made somewhere in the 800's at the wheels if im not mistaken. also another local tossed a procharger on his stock srt-10 and is now making well over 700 at the wheels. pretty impressive, for a $4,000 bolt-on mod, imo.
i love the way the diesels haul, but no way would i consider building one for racing. the prices for parts are out of control on these things! dont see how you guys do it. :hail:
i love the way the diesels haul, but no way would i consider building one for racing. the prices for parts are out of control on these things! dont see how you guys do it. :hail:
A 9 sec Duramax can be built for around 20-25k if the work is done yourself, and you know enough to not waste any money on "extras" and that is starting from a stock truck, I did it a bit cheaper but ...........
There is more than just slapping on a supercharger on a gas engine to make 800HP.
Not sure about the Vipers, but on most NA gas engines, they have the same problem we do. Rods. And often crankshafts. If they didn't come from the factory with forged rods and crank, they tend to fail.
And transmission issues crop up, just like us.
And often, you are married to race gas or octane booster the rest of your life. A minor tuning problem will destroy a supercharged gas engine almost immediately.
We came from the gas realm before we got into diesels. It's not as simple as folk think.
To make a 9 second diesel, it really depends on weight. A "tune only", stock Allison drivetrain stuffed in a mini-truck with a bottle will probably run 9's.
If you really want to run 9's on a budget, you get a used race car with a Chevy crate engine and a Powerglide. It only takes about 500rwhp to do the trick.
But if you want a 12 second daily driver that can tow heavy, haul heavy, go off-road, seat 5, and get 20+ mpg, what are you going to buy? Diesel Pickups are the "Super Trucks" of 21st century. Not SRT's or Lightnings.
my stock LT1 shortblock is making over 600rwhp. ported stock heads, cam, headers, single plane, nitrous kit. quite a bit less than 4 grand for all that. lots of people making north of 700rwhp with a turbo'd LS motor. ford 4 valve motors are good for 1500hp with good rods and pistons. the guy with the 700rwhp srt-10 has headers and a bigger fuel pump/injectors. the engine is stock. no aftermarket cams, nothing.700hp at the rear wheels for only $4,000...sign me up!!!!!!
diesel parts-
i can buy a new forged crankshaft for a sbc for what i spent on ONE INJECTOR for my duramax. a full race th400 from hughes is $1800. a full race trans for a duramax is well over $5000.
dont get me wrong, it is cool to have a fast diesel truck, but instead of putting 25k into my tow rig, i would rather buy an enclosed trailer with a 8 sec. car inside. tow rig would HOPEFULLY never break, and i could drive it reliably to work the following monday.
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got a bone stock LBZ in my driveway with a broke crank. never had any gas engine do that much less a $15k diesel engine.
e85 has been working pretty good for alot of guys. its somewhere around a dollar/gal cheaper than diesel is. you are totally right on the tune. you can blow one up with a 100 shot of nitrous if you dont know what your doing.
i would agree, if not for the duramax parts costs. cost is always the limiting factor on how fast you can go.... with that in mind, i think it would be cheaper to go 12's in a lightning than a 3/4 ton duramax. a 150 shot and some slicks will put one in the 12's. what about the duramax? in terms of fuel cost, run it on e85 and it wont matter that it gets 5mpg worse mileage than the diesel.
E85 is nowhere near as effeicent as gas or diesel, the the available energy in a gallon of e85 is much less than diesel or gas. The auto makers will have to do better than e85 for a substitute fuel. I ran it on a few road trips and the mileage was 2-3 mpg worse than with standard unleaded. This was with a 5.3 flex fuel 1/2 ton crew.
You wanna run a 12 in a duramax grab an LBZ and load a good tune, and make a few high 12 low 13 run some trucks do it fine and other cook the alli in hurry. Mine has done very well but I have never got a time on it, but have done plenty of beating on it on the street and and in the feilds.
What does a 5.4 or the Dodge v10 think of e85 with a hot tune in it??? Do blowers like the stuff?? There was a time it would boil in the carbs of high performance motors.... Has this been solved???
e85 makes more power than gasoline. i dont remember the exact explanation, but once you get your a/f in check, you will be burning 30% more e85 than you would be on gasoline. it acts similar to alcohol. uses more than gasoline, burns cooler, and it makes more power than gasoline even on a n/a engine. octane is over 100 as well, so its very good for a supercharged/turbo application.
So if it takes 30% more e85 to produce te same amount of energy as gasoline then..........
......then you will use 30% more e85 than gasoline driving down the road. i know. thing is, e85 is kinda like race gas out of the pump at 1/3 the cost of race gas. i havent calculated it, but youd probably still come out cheaper per mile than a diesel vehicle getting 30% more mpg. or just change the tune back for gasoline and run that on long trips.
if i wasnt afraid of messing up the stupid expensive injectors on my truck, i would consider getting into biodiesel....
if i wasnt afraid of messing up the stupid expensive injectors on my truck, i would consider getting into biodiesel....
e85 produces 27% less energy per gallon as gasoline. It produces less mileage than gas. It is pure crap and it has raised produce prices dramaticaly. It has made some farmers wealthy and lined the pockets of congressmen.