Gas vs PSD
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Grey smoke too 
My point (if there is such a thing in a thread like this) is:
It's probably not a good idea to put up a video of a V10 "sled puller" to back up the V10 side of a V10 vs. PSD discussion.
My point (if there is such a thing in a thread like this) is:
It's probably not a good idea to put up a video of a V10 "sled puller" to back up the V10 side of a V10 vs. PSD discussion.
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Although those are neat videos, they're worthless to either side of this peeing contest. Neither of those trucks are even remotely like what anyone on this forum has in their driveway. For instance, I own a '67 Mustang. There's a '67 Mustang near me that runs in the 6's at over 215mph in the 1/4 mile. Does that make my car superior? Uuuhhh, not quite. Same applies with the video trucks and anything with a license plate...
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BTW.....beautiful country up your way
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Off topic, but nice mustang. The 67 fastbacks are my favorite year model
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Thanks for the compliments. But here's another way of looking at it: with drag racing, the track is a non-variable. A 1000hp car looks faster than a 200hp car. But with pulling, you cannot tell by eyeball or stopwatch how much power a given truck or tractor may have because the sled always looks the same, regardless of how much wieght is in the box. I've seen stock Toyotas yanking the sled at the same speed as mountain-motored trucks.
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Towards the beginning of the thread there were guys say " If the V10 is so great, how come you never see them at truck pulls?"
I just happened to find this yesterday and posted it as an answer to that.
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I've got a friend with a 1,500 hp 5.0 mustang that just by looking at it you couldn't tell the difference in it and a stock 5.0. Here is a pic of it from when he was only at 1,100 hp. Ford Mustang On The Strip0 Photo
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Oooookaaaaay. Maybe I wasn't perfectly clear on my example. A typical NHRA funny car has around 7,000-8,000 horsepower, right? It takes around 4 seconds plus a bit to make it down the 1,000 ft track. By comparison, maybe a typical street car makes it in about 13 flat. My piont is anyone can clearly see which car makes more power. But in pulling, they have a variable speed, variable wieght sled so that ALL competitors make it through the same 300 ft course (assuming a full pull) so you really cannot compare ANYTHING unless it's on the same track, same day, same sled. That's why they don't have ET and MPH records in pulling.
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Oooookaaaaay. Maybe I wasn't perfectly clear on my example. A typical NHRA funny car has around 7,000-8,000 horsepower, right? It takes around 4 seconds plus a bit to make it down the 1,000 ft track. By comparison, maybe a typical street car makes it in about 13 flat. My piont is anyone can clearly see which car makes more power. But in pulling, they have a variable speed, variable wieght sled so that ALL competitors make it through the same 300 ft course (assuming a full pull) so you really cannot compare ANYTHING unless it's on the same track, same day, same sled. That's why they don't have ET and MPH records in pulling.