Gas vs PSD
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Be honest when have you ran circles around a v10? Its not going to happen. We have an advantage on the low end with our psds after that its all v10. Do kid yourself the 6.8 is a force to reckon with. I know I work beside one often.
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But it's not interesting that a 6.0 "has to have the Bullet Proofing done before it is relaible"? Come on, your bias is showing.
I didn't "laud" anything. I simply said I have a 6.0 at work with 100k of hard hauling miles on it with zero bullet proofing. And it's been reliable. Not completely perfect, but reliable.
Of course my V10 with at the time 75k on it sent me limping back to the campgound, aborting the trip home due to a toasted COP and wire.
With about 80k on it it sent me limping back to the Disney campground aborting THAT trip home due to a faulty IAC.
I guess V10s must be crap engines eh?
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[B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Never said it HAD to be done. Only has the be done if you want to be SURE you won't blow the engine up. (Or WHEN you do.) I'm sure there's a few that never need headgaskets... but that seems to be the exception not the rule. Ones that haven't had then YET...is just that...YET.
Actually you did . You said "bullet proofing has to be done in order to make it reliable". You also said it had to be done to be sure you wouldn't blow it up.
My truck has been reliable over the span of 100k hard miles with no so called bullet proofing. Is that laudable, as someone claimed I alluded to? Not to me it isn't, but based on your (and others as well) claims it is.
You can blow up ANY engine, bullet proofing not withstanding. How stupid do you want to get with the skinny pedal?
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That there's funny, I don't care who ya are!
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not doing the studs/deletes on a 6.0 is like not putting your seatbelt on while driving. you can say the likelihood of an accident is unlikely, and get away with not wearin one. or you can get in an accident and wish ya wore it. (with exception to the small percentage of accidents where seat belts actually proved deadly)
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What about the arrogance of v10 owners? There's some that thought they where the only ones that knew who to use google and a caculator. Matter of fact I don't recall you or the others being man enough to admit another truck could do something better than your's. Hmmm want to talk about arrogance.
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I was actually serious bought putting one in my kit cobra! But weight was the deciding factor against it, a MGB front suspension is marginal at best for an aluminum headed Cleveland motor, I still haven't given up on it, as soon as I come up with a wrecked viper to steal the front running gear from, its going under the wrench again, but until then the only V-10 in my shop is a mock up motor.
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Now THAT is funny...
Of course I'm baised, I own a V10 
Not completely perfect? How so?
"COP and wire" ? Toasted how? I'm curious more than anything, I'm always on the lookout for V10 oddities.
Of course, it didn't blow the head gaskets when it did this, right?
Of course my V10 with at the time 75k on it sent me limping back to the campgound, aborting the trip home due to a toasted COP and wire.
With about 80k on it it sent me limping back to the Disney campground aborting THAT trip home due to a faulty IAC.
I guess V10s must be crap engines eh?
With about 80k on it it sent me limping back to the Disney campground aborting THAT trip home due to a faulty IAC.
I guess V10s must be crap engines eh?
Of course, it didn't blow the head gaskets when it did this, right?