My wife wants a F250
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My wife wants a F250
I found a left over 2003 7.3 2wheel drive at a great price and took my wife to take it for a test drive. She liked everything except for the color!!!!! Great???!!!
We took it on the highway and got up to speed around 65 and I told her to gas it and try to pass a car. She had the pedel all the way to the floor and pumped it a few times and it would not down shift. I heard of this problem from a guy who just bought the new 2500 dodge, is this what they call turbo lag? I have the V10 in my X and it does not have this problem.
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We took it on the highway and got up to speed around 65 and I told her to gas it and try to pass a car. She had the pedel all the way to the floor and pumped it a few times and it would not down shift. I heard of this problem from a guy who just bought the new 2500 dodge, is this what they call turbo lag? I have the V10 in my X and it does not have this problem.Russell
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Don't expect the diesel to drive like a gasser. The transmission didn't need to downshift, so it didn't. And yes, there is a turbo lag. Once you get up there in the RPM's it really moves though. Get a chip or tuner and you won't have such a problem at the low end.
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I would admit it did speed up. Can you explain turbo lag? You mentioned low end ( high rpm or low rpms), I thought that meant that comes from low end torque from a dead stop?
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There is a lot of low end torque, but acceleration is slow. Once the turbo winds up, it helps to accelerate a lot quicker. That's what's so great about the new 6.0, the turbo. It's a variable turbo that works better at low RPM's.
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In short, turbo lag is the time between the accelerator being pushed down and when the turbo begins to make enough boost to increase power output. A quick and dirty way to expirence this is; when you are at a red traffic light and the light turns green give it 3/4 to full throttle. You will move 1-2 truck lenghts and then you will feel a sudden rush of power, that is the turbo lag as expirenced from a dead stop (worst case senerio). At highway speeds turbo lag is almost nonexistant due to engine rpm and boost required to drive at wighway speeds.
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After owning my truck for awhile , I found the truck really moves when you stomp the pedal anywhere past 65mph. A bigger air intake and a Superchips tuner also helped a great deal....
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