What's your best BSEG moment. My latest one is pretty good. I had the bed of my F350 V10 filled with about 1700 give or take 100lbs of maple wood ready to be split. I was going out to my father-inlaw farm where the splitter is. I got behind an old farmer driving a beatup old Cheby about 45mph. I step on it and even with my load I could not believe how quick it sat up and took off around this guy and before my BSEG even broke across my face I was well past him and still gaining speed. My wife couldn't figure out what I was laugh about. Certainly is enjoyable to have the sweet smooth power of our V10's
Happy V10ing

 

good one man and lots of the grin around here latly with every one out and haveing fun

 

May 4th 2004

I hit a tree after hydroplaning out of control on a wet road with zero shoulder.

Assassinated a very beautiful F250 Platinum Edition V10 powered 4x4 4 door SB SRW Ford SuperDuty at 60-65mph

Seatbelt retractors and Airbags made it possible for Brian (a co-worker) and I to climb out and continue our lives.

Inside the cabin, rolled over on the drivers side, with the smell of smoke, I was concerned for both of us.

Once we got out, determined that neither had any injuries, and saw the front end of the truck I got a serious BSEG

Once the truck was back on all 4 wheels, we needed to get our "stuff" out of her to continue the trip to Fort Hood Texas as the truck was obviously going to a wrecking yard. The entire Cabin, all 4 doors and windows were in perfect condition including the electric windows and door locks. I was even able to get my CDs out of the 6 changer Radio unit.

The BSEG comes from my experience and training as an aircraft crash investigator. The impact speed, the amount of inertia and energy dissipated by that big V10, the way the whole vehicle is designed and constructed, and the sturdiness of the cabin, all of that made it possible for two humans to live through a crash that would not have been survivable in many of my older cars and trucks.

Yes I think a BSEG can describe what I think about being able to walk away with ZERO injuries, not even a scratch or bruise !

We may have been damned lucky, or the vehicle did it's job perfectly, you decide

 

June of '03 my son contacted a light pole with my '99 SD F-250. He walked away unschathed, but not so for my SD. I'd a lot rather have bent tin to straighten and paint than broken bones to heal or worse. Fred's right. All that steel does absorb a lot of impact energy keeping it away from the operator.

 

I love the feeling of rolling down the highway with my 33 foot Montana Fiver in tow and you are coming to a steep grade with a passing lane and a guy with a Chevy gasser and a little 8 foot slide in camper starts to pass you. The V10 holds the speed limit and the Chevy starts sliding back, but not before you see the surprized look in his eyes that a rig 50 feet long and 13 feet high can out pull his little truck. That is a BSEG moment.

 

I was leaving the campground this weekend, and in front of me was a bowtie/loud exaust pulling maybe a nice 18ft boat.
The on ramp to the hwy is uphill for about 1/2 mile merging into 65mph traffic.
Well, he starts making all his noise on the way up the hill to get on to the hwy and POOR me with my V10 and 32ft 8000 tt in tow behind him.
So as I was feeling generous this day, I only stayed on his tail until he finally turned off the hwy 2 miles later.
Guess he got tired of my grin filling his rear view mirror

 

Not many racing stories, but I did embarass a late model Ram 2500 5.7L pulling a single stall horse trailer up a long highway grade that tried to pin me behind an 18 wheeler doing about 40mph.

I was pulling a 16' enclosed trailer at about 6000lbs and was able to get well ahead of them and pull into the left lane well before we got to the 18W. I really couldn't understand why I dusted him so easily (thinking it was a diesel) but when he blew by me going down the same mtn (yah ) I saw the HEMI badge on the fender. Really wouldn't have paid much attention but they followed me for miles no problems. Then decided they needed to prove what a mighty towing beast the 5.7L Hemi is by trying to pass me on the first long grade we came to.

I guess the funniest thing that happened to me while I was with this truck wasn't really V10 related. I was at a gas station and a 25 yr old or so guy pulled up beside me with a new Chevy Silverado 1500 with a small lift-I guess it was maybe a 2" or 4" job and he must've have 34" tires on there, maybe 35"s. It was a tatseful job-just about the right size for a 1/2 ton.

But we nodded and said nice trucks to each other. Asked each other about what engines we had, our mileage, problems etc. Nice guy, knew more that average about pickups. But then he asked me "Who installed your lift?"! It was funny to tell him it's all stock even though my F250's bedrails sat an inch or 2 higher than his lifted Chevy! The guy didn't say much, just "huh" and "I gues it sits so high 'cause it's a 3/4 ton"!

I was thinking to myself, nope, it's 'cause GM's trucks are too damn low to the point it's a problem for some people. And the 2500HDs are worse than the 1500s! Those thing are awful-some of the guys at a GM site I visit were measuring the clearance of the lowest part between the axles on their 2500HDs and they were only getting 11-12" under the t-case crossmember with stock tires/suspension. Same part on my truck is about 15" or 16".