blackenedman
Marksman
- Apr 12, 2008
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Weekend warrior commuter truck.
The smaller you make an engine the harder it has work, or the more you have to force [forced induction] it to compensate for it's size and it wears out faster.
There is no replacement for displacement.
This would actually work really well for my truck useage. I have no need to tow anything, but the availability to be haul light loads would be convenient. I have no way to justify the mileage, cost or size of current trucks. Would be wasteful on all three counts for me.
Think I’ll stick with renting a truck or borrowing dad’s for the 1 or 2 times it’s needed a year.
Yep. Nothing wrong with a 4-cylinder turbo..... diesel. I'd rock a 4BT or the modern 3.9 in a small truck. They even have some a bit smaller that may foot the bill.Cummins ftw..
Cummins ftw..
Long bed, 8 cyl, cab and a half. Boss has an ecoboost ford with a superchip and it does ok on ponies but it sounds like a sewing machine spooling up.
It has 2 turbo's. 2 Turbo's.
I do not hear much about the EcoBoost these days. Wonder how one of those holds up in a truck that gets worked pretty hard.
Are they sequential? That's difficult to make work even in a race motor, let alone a daily driver
So few realize that from a daily driver standpoint, turbos are just a way to store engine heat in inappropriate ways
My 01 Ram CTD only has 6 cylinders, but it works well.
Indeed they do and for quite an extended period of time if taken care of.
I wonder how the turbo is being lubricated. I just see people buying these and pulling into a parking spot and just turning the engine off. I can smell the burnt oil on those turbo bearings from here. I was taught to give the turbo a minute to spool down before shutting the engine off and with the instant gratification crowd I don't see that happening.
350K so far, people tell me it's just broken in.