[CaliforniaTitan]

Steve,

The Supercharged Harley F-150's are pretty nice. A friend of our family owns one. Personally I love the Supercharger power over Turbo. The day I drove it though, I wasn't thinking about how fast she would go...more likethe overall experience/ride of the truck. She handles pretty good too but he has 'added' a few mods to include suspension.

Chris

 

[BudmanHemi]

High 12's is(must be 110mph or more) very quick for a 6900 lbs truck.I don't have a 1/4 mile conversion chart in front of me,but it must take at leat 600 RWHP to do that.You can get that out of a Cummins .What PSI do they use stock?If they use 7.5 psi stock,you could get in the 600 hp range with about 29 psi-a big boost.
Turbo Diesels have a huge advantage over spark engines because they can run very high boost with stock fuel.Most stock spark engines can go to maybe5-7 psi on 93 octane(about 30-45% increase in power),but after that they will detonate.It is relatively cheap to just jack up the turbo and fuel flow on a Turbo Diesel.No way can a "STOCK"spark engine double power as cheaply.
.Now stock vs stock-the Titan is faster than any Diesel pickup the Big Three make.Nothing against Diesels pickups,but I doubt the Big 3 make a Diesel pickup that is under 5500 lbs-a RC Ram 3/4 ton is probably the lightest.Luck,Charlie
PS I like the Hemi Ram,(almost bought a Quad cab)drove it before the Titan-they felt a lot alike.I bought the Titan because the Sidecurtain airbags were really impossible to find on the base pickup I could afford.I bought a XE KC 2WD-cost $22680+TTL.The Dodge dealers said they rarely saw a Side Curtain Hemi,and it was always loaded-MSRP ~38,000 selling for $31,000.The base Titan and Hemi Ram are both relatively cheap hot rod trucks~$20000 gets you 255 rwhp and a useful vehicle that can carry 6 people and a lot of cargo.

Diesels are amazing. You can get over 100hp with just a programmer. The mods on them are unbeleivable. Add some fuel injectors (huge gain) and some propane. Its very cheap to get them big heavy trucks to run 12's. My next may be a cummins. Needs alittle less noise, and i am still scared of the problems of cold engine start after a few years. I dont want to be plugging a 5yr old truck in everynight. My commute is 16miles a day, but if it were a long commute, or serious heavy hauling diesel is the way to go.

 

[SupraTitan]

Steve,

Personally I love the Supercharger power over Turbo.

Chris

You haven't had the oppurtunity to ride in a supra turbo yet huh, you would forget all about the annoying whine of a blower. Just remember turbo lag is just there to give the opponent a false sense of hope. I've even had folks start to wave like there going to continue to pull me, only to turn the wave into a jaw dropping, oh sh*t. Then just so they know I can prevent them from even getting a jump from a roll, I can brake boost and have zero lag and put car lengths on them right off the bat in round 2.

 

[1# ton]

High 12's is(must be 110mph or more) very quick for a 6900 lbs truck.I don't have a 1/4 mile conversion chart in front of me,but it must take at leat 600 RWHP to do that.You can get that out of a Cummins .What PSI do they use stock?If they use 7.5 psi stock,you could get in the 600 hp range with about 29 psi-a big boost.
Turbo Diesels have a huge advantage over spark engines because they can run very high boost with stock fuel.Most stock spark engines can go to maybe5-7 psi on 93 octane(about 30-45% increase in power),but after that they will detonate.It is relatively cheap to just jack up the turbo and fuel flow on a Turbo Diesel.No way can a "STOCK"spark engine double power as cheaply.
.Now stock vs stock-the Titan is faster than any Diesel pickup the Big Three make.Nothing against Diesels pickups,but I doubt the Big 3 make a Diesel pickup that is under 5500 lbs-a RC Ram 3/4 ton is probably the lightest.Luck,Charlie
PS I like the Hemi Ram,(almost bought a Quad cab)drove it before the Titan-they felt a lot alike.I bought the Titan because the Sidecurtain airbags were really impossible to find on the base pickup I could afford.I bought a XE KC 2WD-cost $22680+TTL.The Dodge dealers said they rarely saw a Side Curtain Hemi,and it was always loaded-MSRP ~38,000 selling for $31,000.The base Titan and Hemi Ram are both relatively cheap hot rod trucks~$20000 gets you 255 rwhp and a useful vehicle that can carry 6 people and a lot of cargo.

In a gas engine yes but not in a Diesal. I have twice the torque as horse power, Horse power means very little in a diesal.

 

[tjchapin]

Better hope that this awesome piece of engineering is a lasting one. iwas serioes about buying a Titan after driving the Big Three. Glad I drove a Tundra, and bought it. I do think the motor/drivetrain of teh Titan is awesome, but it is still in its first production year. For the same reason I bought my Tacoma over the Frontier, I prodomitably bought my Tundra, I think thier both UGLY!

 

[tjchapin]

Better hope that this "first year " motor is all that...

 

[tjchapin]

Tundra, unichip, Sc, trd exhaust, 6.1 underdrive....u luz

 

[tjchapin]

Dodge has the best looking truck

Nissan has the fastest "unproven Truck"

Toyota is a Toyota

 

[ekool]

You can type all that in one post and it would be a bit easier to read

 

[pagerdaddy]

how can you have a hemi and a cummins (not cummings) engine in the same truck?

steve

He has two trucks, a blue 1/2 ton hemi, and a silver 3/4 ton cummins.

Steve

 

[goathead]

yeah after i read more of the thread i saw that. btw, you would thinki that sombody who has a dodge cummins diesel would know how to spell cummins (not cummings) and diesel (not diesal) LOL

steve

 

[CaliforniaTitan]

You haven't had the oppurtunity to ride in a supra turbo yet huh, you would forget all about the annoying whine of a blower. Just remember turbo lag is just there to give the opponent a false sense of hope. I've even had folks start to wave like there going to continue to pull me, only to turn the wave into a jaw dropping, oh sh*t. Then just so they know I can prevent them from even getting a jump from a roll, I can brake boost and have zero lag and put car lengths on them right off the bat in round 2.

Supra Turbo NO....But a Twin Turbo 300ZX yes...

Chris

 

[carbap82]

1#Ton, I was looking at the Dodge just now. Do you have a 6sp manual? I would like an automatic but it dosn't look like you can get the 600 turbo diesal unless it's in a manual. And like goathead asked, do you have a hemi diesal? What exactly is the setup stock? Sorry for the questions

 

[carbap82]

One more stupid question, is the 3/4 ton have the 4 wheels in the back?

 

[love1u0]

My family would dis own me, If I bought a Titan My whole family workers for the Big three. If they where UAW built I would probably have one. Sorry but I'm a die hard union man.

I didnt know that when dodge builds there trucks in Mexico they use union workers

 

[americanada]

yeah after i read more of the thread i saw that. btw, you would thinki that sombody who has a dodge cummins diesel would know how to spell cummins (not cummings) and diesel (not diesal) LOL

steve

Would that be the same as knowing that if referring to something that belongs to someone it's spelled "their" and not "there"? Or is proper grammer below knowing how to spell engine types and makers?

 

[37L1]

You can type all that in one post and it would be a bit easier to read

I think he was lonely, casting to the waters to get someone to bite.

When no one responded, he went away. Hmmm, could be a good lesson here for the trolls. :hat:

37L1