You don't consider 8% for 10 miles to be a mountain pass? That is steeper and just as long as Eisenhower. The only difference is the elevation. And that is far from the steepest grade I have climbed with it.

 

None of em I've driven will. Aight then where's that leave us now. I have pictures tag receits, tags, loan papers of the trucks and mustangs I've owned since 1998. I can prove I've owned them. None. Not the 1st one would rev past 5k. Tomorrow I'm gonna try to make video of our 07, and 10, mustang my wife's 04 f f150rpms. I can show ya better than I can tell ya.

 

Just to be fair, don't post what your gross weight was and only what the other truck was pulling in trailer weight alone. It makes it look like you were towing 3 times as much as him when you really weren't. If you grossed 16k and your truck weighs about 7k lbs, you were only pulling about 9k at most.

Again, to be fair, you have no idea who was driving or how he was driving it. I have seen countless posts on here where people say they are afraid to turn their 5.4 or v10 over 3,000 rpms because they don't want to hurt it. It's not the trucks fault if the driver doesn't know how to drive it.

I have both a 7.3 and a 5.4, same set up, same tranny, same rear end, same weight truck and the 5.4 definitely pulls a lot stronger if you aren't afraid to run it past 2,500 rpm. I haven't had one time where I have HAD to run the 5.4 at 4-5k rpm to pull a load. It generally needs to be one gear lower and 500 rpm higher than my 7.3 to pull the load just as good. It's not like the 7.3 is pulling the hill at 2,000 rpm in 5th gear while the 5.4 is screaming at 5,000 rpm in 2nd gear just to keep up.

 

Sorry about the weight confusion, I was pulling about 9k, he looked to be pulling about 5k. Like I said I don't know how high his rpms were, but his truck was at least a 2004 whereas mine was a 97, that makes a difference too.

From what I have seen, you will have to run at least 50% higher rpms to keep up with me in my 7.3L.

Something that has to be considered also is that you have alot more HP than I do, but similar torque. If I have the same HP you do, I will outpull you easily, why? Torque.

If I ever have the opportunity, I would be more than happy to pull against any year 5.4, or a similar year V10.

 

Just trying to clear up any confusion, as stuff like that happens on here quite a bit on purpose lol. Like, it only cost me $50 to change my spark plugs at home but it cost a 6.0 guy $5,000 to have something fixed at the dealer. Or I changed my 6.0 head gasket at home for $50 but it costs you $600 to have your plugs changed by a dealer, etc.

My 7.3 is a 1997 and my 5.4 is a 2000, so similar to what you have. From what I have seen with mine, in the same gear and at the same rpm (has to be below 3,000 rpm) my 7.3 will outpull my 5.4. More tq at the same rpm means more hp. But if I let each engine run where it performs best (let my 5.4 turn more than 3,000 rpm), the 5.4 will walk off and leave the 7.3 if I am running them hard. To do nothing but maintain speed on a hill, the 5.4 has to be 500 rpm higher and one gear lower to pull the hill just as easily. This is all with the same load, same hill, same driver, same day, etc.

 

I'm not saying yours can, I'm just saying that I have never driven one that could not.
I have driven allot of modulars too.

Right now there are 3 of them in my driveway that will.
The other V10 vidoe is uploading, but I can make vids showing the other two ( both 4.6s) revving if I need to.

 

My V10 is the only modular I've owned, but it will (and has) easily revved past 5,000 rpm. For those that cannot get one to go that high, might I suggest trying the pedal on the right. Also, I'm having trouble sifting through the jibberish, but if exiled is trying to say that neither his '07 or '10 Mustangs will rev past 5K, he seriously needs to learn to drive. They go waaaaay higher than that!

 

8% for 10 miles is 4,224 foot elevated climb. Where on the east coast is the elevation even that high, you climb MT Washington or something?

In case it is not clear, that is me calling BS. Weren't you the one just a few posts back saying people on here exaggerate?

 

Hmmm is it 9 or 10 on this list or some made up pass they have never heard of?

10 Toughest Tows In America - Black Mountain - Diesel Power Magazine

 

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Did not blow up this one.
Funny how much better they work when they have oil.

75 is 4750 RPM.
80 is 5070
85 is 5385

I was planing on hitting the rev limiter and then running 75 for anouther minute or two, but I had to slow down fast.
Came up to a hill and the radar detector started flashing at me. Sure enough, 2 troopers over the next hill so I had to end the run there.

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This was try number one for those that missed it.

 

Safe to say you've never seen the Appalachians? What's the penalty for an incorrect BS call around here? 10 yds and loss of down?

 

You guys must be drinking a lot of beer to be pissing for this long.

 

Show me an 8% 10 mile grade there a truck and trailer can pull at 60mph the entire pull and I will take a personal foul, 15 yards.

 

We ran out of **** a long time ago.
Thats why we got out the measuring tape.

 

Unfortunately some dudes here use the same measuring tape they use with their wives, you know the ones that say 4 inches is 8.