Recent content by silver billet

The 25's appear to be the worst year for the 5th gens, best to stay away and/or count your blessings if you got a good one.

On my 7th year of ownership and 0 regrets. Everytime it starts, everytime I get on it and it winds up, while I'm towing for hours straight.... usually nothing but smiles. I had the window leak and exhaust manifolds, but taken care of. I have no doubt this truck will take me to 15+ years of...

I believe that specific report was for a 5.7. There is more than viscosity that goes into an oil choice though, for example most 0w-40s are highly susceptible to shear down; UOA's show many are sitting in 30 grade territory when sampled after some use.

The cam issues are not "oil starvation". Just check out that engineers analysis where he said it's not caused by lack of oil, but the wrong oil (oil choice not able to meet the demands of the engine).

Glad you like the cummins. There is no comparison, no, that much is true. That's a beast of a truck.

There are no development costs. Guys are swapping the 6.4 into 1500s on the driveway. It's literally plug and play for a DIY'er, though of course Ram would have additional costs. Nothing close like you pretend it is. The 5.7 and 6.4 are extremely similar. No, this is just marketing at play...

It's now putting out more horsepower, and there is no sign they've reached the end (consider how much more power it puts out in the mustang). The 5.7 doesn't have any room left.

Yeah that's the point. It cost them to put it in and had little sales (intentional or otherwise). The 6.4 in the 1500 would be a much bigger bang for their buck, and it's not just the wrangler. Percentage wise it's a guarantee that the 6.4 in the 1500 would sell more than any other single model...

I agree, the v8 won't be primary anymore, they're already charging more for the hemi than the SO and now that the hurricane is here they're definitely going to use it. But I don't think they're done with v8s yet, and I wouldn't be shocked if they end up releasing that v8 they were working on.

It's the weakest v8 if you want the strongest v8 in a brand. Look at it this way. I want the strongest v8 I can get in a half ton. Where do you go? GM has the 6.2; thrashes the 5.7. Ford has the 5.0, it beats the 5.7. The 5.7 is the weakest one, why would I pick Ram? That would be ignoring...

As I said, look at the wrangler. How much did it cost to stuff it in there vs uptake/payback, compared to doing the same thing in their most popular model in the entire corporate lineup, the 1500. The whiskey is great. Its Canadian (of course).

Nope, it doesn't cost that much to get the 6.4 in these trucks, they stuff this thing in literally everything else including the jeep wrangler where it makes the least sense. Your argument doesn't carry water, sorry. It's also safe to say the 6.4 is coming. We don't know "when", but it's pretty...

Don't agree. Look at all those GM 6.2 buyers, there is a huge market for powerful v8s. Ram 1500 buyers are "satisfied", doesn't have anything to do with the ones who passed on ram for only having the entry v8. The 6.4 as an option, would bring Ram from having the weakest v8 in the class, to...

You know what would help their market share even more? Getting the 485 hp 6.4 out in base trims. What in the world is taking them so long, its beyond me. Rumour is that they were working on a smaller displacement v8, like a 4.x or something like that before the dude in Europe canned the...