RobertN
Super Member
A "1/2 ton", v8, stick shift, wing windows, rubber floor mat, manual windows etc!
New 2025 Ram 1500 with hurricane engine.
paulsharvey
Elite Member
Honestly, does it matter if it's I-6 or a V-8, or a V6, I just know the 5.7L Hemi is a fuel efficiency, good motor, with good longevity; IF you avoid unnecessary idling. My worry, is I-6TT, what is its flaws? We know the Hemi's. So, maybe it's idling that will kill them, maybe it's going to want new air filters every 5000 miles, maybe it's some kinda computer controlled boost issue, but every motor has its faults. It's just nice to have one that you know it's issues.
With that, I do hope Ram put together a quality machine. Some of those Wagonners should be well over 150k now, if it's been out for 2 or 3 years, so, maybe the faults are I'D. Online, the discussion appears to be turbo issues, cooling failures, and fuel system. Not sure those occur at high rates,
DarkBlack
Elite Member
Fuel efficiency? Yeah right
My 5.7L returns a very best of 17.5 mpg in the summer with optimal driving, and 15 mpg in the winter.
The 5.7L reliability is good, not great.
My particular year has a notorious bad habit of snapping exhaust manifold studs, along with coil failures, and the dreaded destroyed engine if you wipe out some cam lobes. Some feel it’s excessive idling, but no one knows for sure.
I do like my 5.7, but I’m realistic about its pros/cons. The engine issues have cropped up during the many years of production.. not on the first year or two when it was first produced.
paulsharvey
Elite Member
Cam lobes and lifters is what I meant by excessive idle.Fuel efficiency? Yeah right
My 5.7L returns a very best of 17.5 mpg in the summer with optimal driving, and 15 mpg in the winter.
The 5.7L reliability is good, not great.
My particular year has a notorious bad habit of snapping exhaust manifold studs, along with coil failures, and the dreaded destroyed engine if you wipe out some cam loves.
I do like my 5.7, but I’m realistic about it’s pros/cons, which issues have cropped up during the many years of production.. not on the first year or two when it was first produced.
2019 Ram Classic 5.7, crew,, 4x4, 19 to at times 20 mpg. Even if we go to 24 mpg for the TT, that's $3,157 per year vs $2499 per year in fuel, driving 20,000/year. We are talking a fuel savings of less than $750/year.
No, I'm not saying the hemi was "bullet proof", but none of them are; we just know it's limitations, and the Hurricane will have its own, different, limitations.
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DarkBlack
Elite Member
Lotta “stuff” on it.
You wouldn’t know by the shape, there’s a long skinny inline-6 under there
A bit surprised they’re using an aluminum block
Made in their Mexican plant.
You wouldn’t know by the shape, there’s a long skinny inline-6 under there
A bit surprised they’re using an aluminum block
Made in their Mexican plant.
Hay Dude
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Good thing the displacement is small so they can pile 500lbs of junk on it.
Man this crap has to end.
Man this crap has to end.
Hay Dude
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- Challenger MT655E, Massey Ferguson 7495, Challenger MT535B, Krone 4x4 XC baler, (2) Kubota ZD331’s, 2020 Ram 5500 Cummins 4x4, IH 7500 4x4 dump truck, Kaufman 35’ tandem 19 ton trailer, Deere CX-15, Pottinger Hay mowers
Fuel efficiency? Yeah right
My 5.7L returns a very best of 17.5 mpg in the summer with optimal driving, and 15 mpg in the winter.
The 5.7L reliability is good, not great.
My particular year has a notorious bad habit of snapping exhaust manifold studs, along with coil failures, and the dreaded destroyed engine if you wipe out some cam lobes. Some feel it’s excessive idling, but no one knows for sure.
I do like my 5.7, but I’m realistic about its pros/cons. The engine issues have cropped up during the many years of production.. not on the first year or two when it was first produced.
Like every Ford engine I ever owned.
ning
Elite Member
re twin turbos - my recollection is that this engine has one turbo per 3 cylinders, kinda like a twin-turbo v8 where there's one turbo per bank -- it's not a sequential turbo setup.
It's twice as many turbos, but they're smaller and lighter, less inertia. I wouldn't worry about the "twin turbo" aspect of the engine.
I would, however, be concerned about buy a first- (or possibly even second-) year of an engine in production, however - even though they've likely been running it in mules for at least a few years, there's likely been tweaking here and there and it's not a settled configuration till it's sold in volume; it's a rare engine that doesn't have an iffy start.
It's twice as many turbos, but they're smaller and lighter, less inertia. I wouldn't worry about the "twin turbo" aspect of the engine.
I would, however, be concerned about buy a first- (or possibly even second-) year of an engine in production, however - even though they've likely been running it in mules for at least a few years, there's likely been tweaking here and there and it's not a settled configuration till it's sold in volume; it's a rare engine that doesn't have an iffy start.
mrmikey
Veteran Member
Really tho, other than the pulleys and belts on front giving it away you'd be hard pressed to tell it's actually an engine, ridiculous, I wouldn't want to have to work on it for anything other than an oil change. Always blows my mind when you look at an old engine, take an old 225 slant 6, and compare it to that engineering nightmare:
DarkBlack
Elite Member
That’s a “performance” 2 barrel version
. My ‘68 had a 1 barrel carb.All this crap they put on isn’t because they want to. It’s all to meet ever tightening government regulations
