i would like someones opionion on the dodge cummins motor thanks

 

Great motor....just dont like what its wrapped in!

 

yup, good motor, but crap truck, and "six in a row make it slow!"

 

Decided to beat on a dead horse eh?

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...+about+cummins

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...+about+cummins

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...+about+cummins

 

I gotta tell ya I was very impressed with some of the 12V Cummins at our dyno day on 12/8. Many of them were in the 500hp + range with not that much work done to them - fuel plate, intake, exhaust, injectors - the old 12V has no chip - all mechanical. One that was in an OBS F250 put out over 600hp. If the weather wasn't so crappy there would have been some wrenching outside the shop and I could have learned more. Know your enemy, right? But I don't think the 12V Cummins is as reliable or will last as long as our 7.3s.

 

those small motors gotta crank too hard to do the same work imo

 

Its a great motor. I will even say its a better motor than a PSD but unless its in a Ford you won't find one in my driveway. The dodge truck is crap no matter whats in the engine compartment. Now drop a 6bt in a Ford and you have something then.

Given the choice of owning a cummins in a Dodge and a Powerstroke in a Ford....well you can see from my signature where my I stand.

LONG LIVE THE 7.3 POWERSTROKE!!

 

I'm with TJ.

I own both and love both. I believe the 5.9 is a better motor. Lots of lower end power and has never failed to start, easier to work/Mod on IMHO...........to bad the truck is falling apart around the powertrain
My ford can haul more and has much better brakes but being a supercab it can't get into places my Dodge can and with a solid axle up front it turns on a dime.
Too bad Ford and Cummings didn't hook up.


'Nough said.

 

You can get the 5.9 Cummins in an F550 or better. They are not supposed to be quite the same as the 5.9 in a Dodge. I have a hard enough time parking my F350 CC LB. I don't really believe there is enough difference in the motors to do without the Ford. When I was looking there were at least 4 times the Fords for sale as Dodge and GM combined. We have got to have an easier time getting parts!

 

f650 and up, 550's are all psd.

Read my sig to see where I stand. All depends on what you want to do with the truck.

 

I stand corrected - I stand in that posture most of the time.

 

I am going to settle this argument soon. I found a 93 F-350 with a blown gas motor. It's got Fummins written all over it. I'll have one of each and should be able to really decide.

 

A little off track here, but I read that Ford might be going with a Caterpillar V6 in the F150's. It makes me wonder what they will do when the 6.4 contract with Navistar runs out as they don't seem to be getting along to well right now.

 

Thats all specualtion. Its been that way ever since i can remember. When the 6 blow came out, Supposedly that was the last light duty motor Navistar was to ever build with the problems it had, now here comes the 6.4, and I have heard rumors that the next genereation is already in the works. Heard a rumor from a engineer that he saw a inline 6 by navistar designed specific for ford trucks. Who knows though. Its the moderen day Roswell.