I live in Sw Fla, way down on the gulf side close to the everglades. I was retired for a few years at 32 years of age durin the "boom" years thanks to some good real estate investments, but am back in the real world doin a job I love. I work at a salvage yard sellin used car/truck parts all day long, sorta like the stock exchange with car parts. buy em low from other yards and sell em high to the customer at a profit. lets me gather all my goodies for my own projects and help my fellow gear heads out from time to time on theirs.

 

haha right now im driving a 98 sunflower i mean sunfire haha and i got a rice can for free so i put it on haha its ****ing hilarious, the nice thing is i gained mileage, i do alot of driving and it actually helped

 

and nice im going to school for heavy duty mechanics (the courses technical name is heavy equipment truck and transport technician) anyways and im plannin on working for caterpillar
Florida i dont think i could handle the heat haha

 

No i havent, i wasnt alive in the 80's. I know there are diesels w/o turbos and most of them blow. They need the turbo (as stated earlier) because its a compression system. yes we all know they can run w/o them, and we know they blow then.

 

...You were the one who started this.....

 

actually the summers here are cooler and less humid then some of the other areas I have been like Sc and Md, the july august weather there is brutal, but I'll take it over cold any day. Lived in N mich 6-7 years and man that cured me of the white stuff, but i do miss the great huntin and freshwater fishin up there.

I know there have been guys who have swapped cummins motors into 1/2 tons to take t othe drag strip, got any good links?

 

if i could find them you would already know,
and i love the white stuff, -20 is a beautiful temperature, and then again +15 is the perfect temperature, sitting beer in one hand, beer in the other just perfect

 

How did I start this? lol because I threw some good points out in defense of the v10? It's a big but VERY mild motor that was never offered near it's full potential from the factory. Imagine if they had continued on with it, actually offered it with 450-500 hp like it should have had AND with a multi displacement feature like the hemis. Imagine if they had offered a all aluminum magnum style V10, more power and lighter weight. It was a great engine for it's day and was better on fuel and a lot more powerful then the 454 Chevy and 460 Fords of the time, which is what Dodge wanted to do. The cummins engines hadn't quite caught on yet and didn't have near the after market support they do now or the higher power levels they offer now.

 

its true you know

 

Man I just realized that I'm older then the combined ages of two of the more boisterous guys on this thread, when did I get old? lol