Now just imagine the truck caught fire and you only had a minute or so to get out. Thats why people say you should have an autopunch in the ashtray. For that and water escapes.

 

Mine didnt catch fire.. luckily. But we got thrown around quite a bit. The truck flipped end over end, bed over nose. But for that reason I now have a a punch/belt cutter in my console.

 

Close. My PS having 260k on the odometer doesn't burn much oil, I have to add it about once between 10,000 intervals and even that is because I never top off the oil during change to have a chance for refreshing shoot of detergents later on.
Have no idea how old the belt is, but it wasn't new when I got the truck 70k miles ago. I replaced fuel filter 60k miles ago only because I had some engine troubles, what turned out to be clogged tank strainers.

 

Seeing as I can now be involved in this threads as I own a V10 why not stir that pot. No not really. Anyways I am really liking this V10 so far. Got it for a good price and wouldnt have found a diesel in that price range that I would have liked. This thing moves compared to that anemic 5.4 and drinks just a little more gasoline. I really don't care what one owns but I will say this. My friend has only owned Dodge HD pickups since I've known him. He had a 2002 reg cab cummins with a Banks chip, exhaust, and some 80hp injectors. That thing friggin moved! I'll never forget the one night crusing on the highway and he opened it up at 60mph and that thing actually broke loose from the pavement! Crazy amounts of power. I dont care what I do to my V10 it wont have that kind of power. I think the V10 is up to many tasks thrown at it (many municipalities around here have them and the 5.4) but if we were going to race a heavily modified diesel and a V10 , the diesel would probably toast a V10. Stock to stock powerplants would be fun but it always seems the diesel moves the loads better (the truck pull by some of the guys on here shows this, although the V10 does complete the job). So I like them both but will stick to the gas for now and keep it a little more simple.

I will have to go race my buddy now with his new modified Dodge.....even if I do get beat!

 

Congrat's on the truck!

 

Yup, not often you can find a dually short box. I think they look sharp.

 

A V10 is perfectly capable of breaking the tires free at 60. It just needs forced induction.

 

LOL


a 4.6 could break the wheels loose at 60 with enough forced induction.
Diesel easily wins it for easy aftermarket power. Take a v10, add a supercharger, custom tuning, you are gonna spend way more than a diesel programmer. Plus, high HP diesels get good mileage, high HP gas engines generally do not.


That being said, I personally think a v10 with a turbocharger and water injection could be a really good unit. The water injection should save a lot of fuel while towing and such, while the turbo would add power when needed.

 

I heart forced induction. This is about to go on my PSD. S466 that is fixing to have a billet wheel and a race cover and that will have a billet S594 in front of it. It will already break the tires loose at ~50mph with the stock turbo @ only 24psi due to boost leaks. What do you think it'll do at 60+psi and ~240cc more fuel?? Can you say extreme fun with the capability of towing whatever I want, whenever I want? One of these would probably rock out on a daily driven V10 @ 10psi though.

 

Hey Travis, You must know somebody that lives reasonably close to Bill that can go pull against his V10....

That turbo looks pretty nice there Travis, How long will it be till you are using it?


Oh, BTW, I wonder how much forced induction would shorten the life of the V10? or wait, it wouldn't, their bulletproof

 

Yeah, but not plugproof. I just read the topic where spark plug coming off V10 killed not only the engine, but whole truck by putting it on fire. Sad anybody has to drive bomb like that

 

Turbocharged engines typically have tougher piston rings, pistons, and oil jet cooled piston setup. HP for racing and HP for towing are not the same thing, racing is intermittent use, and towing has a high duty cycle. Many high performance pistons are stronger than stock, but I've heard that they also wear out faster. There are many things to consider when charging the intake of and engine designed for N/A operation, many of which I probably don't know about. I think it might run nice with a little boost and custom programming. Water injection would probably REALLY help out, I imagine the v10 in a superduty would be running pretty rich at high power outputs.

 

Now where is that autopunch and belt cutter again?



in a hard hit accident they don't do much good cause you won't be able to find the ashtray OR center counsel. In my case it was ok cause the passengers door no longer existed. Oh but we never have found my cell phone that was in the center counsel.

 

That figure doesn't surprise me for a cold engine - but all engines (diesel or gas) will use substantially more fuel when cold.


Both my 4V 5.4's lie-o-meter would change to reading consumption in L/hr when the speed dropped below 8km/h (5mph). The lie-o-meter on these was pretty accurate according to my hand calcs.
Once warm, at idle my modified (supercharged/intercooled/injectors etc. ~620rwhp) one would consume around 3.2l an hour at an 800rpm idle.
My unmodified one (still a 4V) would consume around 2.4l an hour @ 750rpm.

Both figures were with the air-con on and manual trans. Automatics would no doubt use slightly more fuel at idle.


I would imagine the V10 would be somewhere between those 2 figures, i.e. around 3/4 a gal an hour at idle.

 

If you dont have it you definitely cannot use it. At least if you have one you have a chance at using it. In my accident my interior was unaltered for the most part. We did eventually find my phone. It was wedged between the dash and the windshield. I had an iphone and about 1/2 of it was wedged in, and with force. It took both hands and me pushing my self off the dash with my feet to get it back. It was somehow unscratched.