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[Renze]

When doing 60-120s with our Challengers my girlfriend has 90 hp over me, yet it's not until around 100 that hers start pulling away.

When tuning a naturally aspirated engine, its easier to add to the top than to the bottom.

My mate in his younger years had a Honda CRX. 130hp from a naturally aspirated 1.5
There was also a 160hp version of the same engine but that wasnt fun to drive, it was dead in the water untill it made you angry. When you drove it angry and kicked it to 9000rpm, it would go.

And Vtec.. Felt to me like driving a 1980s heavy truck with huge turbo lag...

 

[Renze]

If you have a drop hitch, you won't hit your license plate!
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(how else am I supposed to know how far to back up? I have a shell on my truck, I go till I hit something, then pull forward 2 inches. about 50:50 I get it first try... maybe someday I'll buy a camera, but probably not)

Ive got a bumper on my V70. Havent scratched any paint yet..

 

[Renze]

The flat frame rails in the standard 34" width on a C&C makes adding things to it much easier. Also, with a Ram there's 74 gallon fuel capacity available, and I like that the rear axle isn't as wide as on a DRW pickup.

I worked most on Sprinters. On a chassis cab, the chassis consists of two Omega profiles roll welded together. On a van, the upper Omega is left out and the floor is welded to it, the upper panel structure providing the necessary strength.

I think on the Iveco Daily van, body on frame, they have a C channel profile height decrease at the rear axle, which means the rear end has a lower section height. I think on a van, they start the lower section height behind the cab.

They all have a flat chassis, very easy to build on.

By the way, be not surprised if Stellantis replaces the larger versions of the ProMaster (Fiat Ducato) with the Iveco Daily RWD platform, which enables them to match the Sprinter 3500 and offer RWD on a 1500 sized van.

The 3 liter 4 cylinder 190hp may be not what North America expects, but they could just fit the VM V6 diesel also used in Jeep and Ram for the NA market, next to the Pentastar 3.6..

 

[Jstpssng]

Both of my prior trucks were used as trucks for hauling and towing. They both looked like new at 7 years old when I traded them off. Don't judge use by condition. Not everyone is a savage that destroys vehicles when they use them. And not everyone treats their own vehicle like they treat a business/work truck.

Years ago we were loading firewood into my F150 to take home to my employer. The guy with me started throwing it in from 10 feet away which I quickly put a stop to.
He said "Ah, my uncle took out the back window of his Dodge a week after he bought it."
Exactly. That's why you're going to pick up an armload, walk to the truck and set it in the bed, then go back and get another one.


Personally, I like carpet in a truck. It breathes so you don't get moisture trapped underneath, soaking the insulation so that it ends up getting mildewed. They make some nice mats that you can easily take out to dump all of the tracked in dirt, and am occasional vacuum does the rest.

 

[kozal01]

Years ago we were loading firewood into my F150 to take home to my employer. The guy with me started throwing it in from 10 feet away which I quickly put a stop to.
He said "Ah, my uncle took out the back window of his Dodge a week after he bought it."

Exactly. That's why you're going to pick up an armload, walk to the truck and set it in the bed, then go back and get another one.

Ill never understand the people that will spend tens of thousands of dollars on a truck just to destroy it. My truck is almost 10 years old and still looks almost brand new and its used as a tool, but I take care of it, not that hard.

On another note, this is my first aluminum body truck and the bed has held up better than the steel bed on my older trucks. The Line-X bed liner is gouged and scratched up but there are zero dents in the aluminum. After ten years in my old truck the bed was dented all over the place. The body panels dont dent as easy as my steel trucks and the lack of rust is nice.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

When tuning a naturally aspirated engine, its easier to add to the top than to the bottom.

That is true, but in this case both are supercharged.

 

[Jstpssng]

On another note, this is my first aluminum body truck and the bed has held up better than the steel bed on my older trucks

I have been wondering how those would hold up. Good to hear that it's treating you well.

 

[Dftodd]

The ones I never got were the guys with caved in license plates and tailgates. As if backing up to a trailer without smashing into it, or running the right size ball for your coupler, is a bridge to far. It's not that difficult, guys!

Well back in the day before back up cameras, I was guilty of catching my license plate on occasion with the trailer.

I was usually good about getting out and double checking, then backing up some more.

But on occasion you lose track of distance to target

 

[WinterDeere]

Well back in the day before back up cameras, I was guilty of catching my license plate on occasion with the trailer.

True, backup cameras definitely make it so much easier. But even before, somehow I always managed to avoid that. I'd back up to within a foot or three, hop out, eyeball the distance, and then sneak up to it with the truck. In a few cases, I smacked the drop portion of my hitch, which I guess could have been a license plate if my truck weren't so much taller than my trailer(s).

My newest truck will not allow the vehicle to move if a door is open. Thank goodness that stupid bit of safety gear coincided with the addition of a backup camera, or I'd really be cursing the maker. Like others, I used to gauge how far I was backing up by watching the pavement from my open door.

 

[BravoXray]

Back in 1997 when Ford changed the body style on the F150s, a local paint contractor bought a couple of them. About a year later I saw one of them ahead of me at a traffic light and it looked like it had been in a war. The tailgate was caved in on the top, the rear window was now a piece of plastic taped in place, paint splattered all over the body, and when he turned left in front of me, the door and bed had pretty good sized dents in them.
Apparently, vehicle abuse is not a big deal for them.

OTOH, my '06 F150 with 270K miles still looks pretty much like new except for a little surface rust around the rear wheel openings, that will soon be fixed.

 

[dstig1]

What cab do you consider to be "extended"?

SuperCab or
SuperCrew?

Extended would be a supercab (with the pint sized back seat). That is what I have. Crew Cab is the full 4-door style

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I feel so disadvantaged.

Nothing I tow with has a backup camera, and I might hook up four different trailers in a day. Usually with different vehicles.

Yes, it can be tricky when not able to back up in a straight line with the trailer and just use the mirrors. And especially when I'm tired.

But on the positive side, none of the vehicles I normally use has a license plate that could be in harms way...if they even have one.

 

[dstig1]

Camera is probably best way, I don't have one either. Those little magnetic wires with balls on top that you stick to your hitch and to the trailer would probably work pretty good too.

What I do is backup until I'm close (like within a foot or so), then stop, get out and walk to the back of the truck. Note how far the ball is from the trailer, then get back in the truck and leave the door open. Then, I look straight down and pick a spot on the driveway and use that as a reference point to see how far to back up. Works almost every time (I tend to be conservative and stop a little short sometimes).

Note: It also helps to keep the trailer tongue close to the height of the ball so that it is likely to hit the ball first before getting to some other part of the truck that you don't want to hit (just in case you do back up a little too far).

That is exactly what I did on my old PU...

 

[WinterDeere]

OTOH, my '06 F150 with 270K miles still looks pretty much like new except for a little surface rust around the rear wheel openings, that will soon be fixed.

I would still own my '05 Ram 1500 today, with manual transmission, if the tin worm didn't start attacking it. Mechanically, it was the perfect vehicle, and it only had 70k miles on it at 12 years of age.

I started seeing the faint signs of rust inside the corners of the doors just before it's 11th birthday, and by the time it had passed 12 years, it was rusting so fast in the rear fenders that I could see changes almost from one week to the next.

It doesn't help that I mostly drive my trucks in bad weather, then let them sit and stew when it's nice out the next day, rather than driving to dry them out. They're also parked outdoors, and often in shady spots... all the perfect recipe for rust, in a corner of the state that piles salt onto the roads so heavily you'd have to assume the salt vendor is giving them kickbacks.

 

[Renze]

That is true, but in this case both are supercharged.

If you keep the drive ratio and compressors identical, cam duration will have the same effect as on a naturally aspirated engine; Long duration cam adds top end, doesnt help much, or even looses bottom end.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Also true.

 

[Renze]

Belgian custom license plate

 

[WinterDeere]

 

[WinterDeere]

 

[bcp]

Bruce