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Yet you still have a light duty truck and the 5.9 (both gas and diesel) were in the 2500 which later went to the 6.7. Your fallacy is that you keep making the HD engin comparison in relation to a light duty 1500 truck. You have produced zero evidence to support your of an duty cycle issue with...
As have I, 277K on my 2003 and 93k on this truck. Would I have bought a 1500 (Limited) with the SRT power tuned for a truck? Hell yeas over the 5.7. Would I buy a 1500 with the SRT 6.4 over the HO Hurricane? No because I understand how the 2 will drive and where the usable power is
By this forum's own comments, most don't keep a truck more than three to four years so this is completely irrelevant to them.
Secondly, a turbo engine built correctly will last as long as a naturally aspirated engine. They don't use the same components so they can be made to wear the same
You keep referring to heavy duty yet the 1500 is not heavy duty so your heavy duty comments are irrelevant and this context. The 1500 is light duty.
You don't see a Cummins 5.9 in the 1500, why? Because that's a heavy duty engine and the 1500 to light duty truck
Show me an example of an engine failure due to an aluminum block and failed duty cycles. Handle heat, an aluminium block handles heat fine if not better than an iron block; wonder why dodge used aluminium heads for the 5.7 if aluminium is so bad?
And I've told you, they use both but did it ever occur to you that they use iron in HD trucks because it's cheaper and the extra weight over the nose is as critical in a 7-8k truck?
I'd bet money very few here aside from you care about an iron block over aluminum block but you keep flying that...
Exactly. Had Dodge made any improvements to the 5.7 like GM and Ford have done, it'd be a different story but they haven't. The only noteworthy improvements to the 5.7 since 2002 are Eagle heads and VVT. The 5.7 feels lazy sometimes because it doesn't have a lot of low speed torque. I bet your...
You made the comment that the hurricane wasn't used in the HD trucks, the 1500 isn't a HD truck and the Hurricane was designed for a LT truck so yeah, water is wet.
The 5.9 was in HD trucks before the 5.7 was and it was as bad as the 5.7 was in HD trucks
GM uses both aluminium and iron blocks in...
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