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Old 11-17-2014 | 06:28 PM
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14's sounds great for a stocker. I don't think the quarter mile is as bad as a trip to work daily. You are on it 14 seconds and shut it down. Back and forth to work is all the starts and stops and flooring it to get on the freeway plus turning and stopping repeatedly. Just think if you have a load and are in a lower gear with your foot almost on the floor for miles going up a steep grade.
 
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Old 11-17-2014 | 06:38 PM
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Ya i was impressed/surprised. granted it is a short bed / regular cab.

and agreed a few passes down the strip will have no bad effect. especially with no burn out or wheel hop. These are not sport or muscle cars but its fun see what they can do. it may see 10 passes in 10 years as my other truck did. and the the timing chain and the gears are not plastic lol


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14's sounds great for a stocker. I don't think the quarter mile is as bad as a trip to work daily. You are on it 14 seconds and shut it down. Back and forth to work is all the starts and stops and flooring it to get on the freeway plus turning and stopping repeatedly. Just think if you have a load and are in a lower gear with your foot almost on the floor for miles going up a steep grade.
 
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Old 11-17-2014 | 10:35 PM
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Don't know what some of these people are talking about, its ok to hook up an 8,000 lb trailer and pull it up and down hills but for God's sake don't you dare step on the gas hard for a quarter mile. What a joke, I'm on my 3rd Dodge ( 2nd Ram ) and have never had an issue. These trucks are tough and have good drivetrains and if you want to see what times you can get, I say all the power to you.

BTW, congrats on your new truck buddy.
 
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Old 11-18-2014 | 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Bullcrappy
and agreed a few passes down the strip will have no bad effect.
An assumption, not a fact. Again, tell it to my buddy who had no truck for two weeks and a fight with his dealer over his "few passes" down the strip. The simple FACT is you are doing something your truck was never designed to do, certainly not often. Defending it using the logic that "nothing bad ever happened" is a ridiculous argument as to why it's perfectly acceptable to do. I have taken my Ram over 100MPH multiple times and never been pulled over. So does that mean going 35MPH faster then any posted speed limit in this state is legal for not other reason then i never got caught?

And to clarify my earlier comments, i never said what you were doing was "wrong". I simply gave my opinion that running these trucks down a track (again, in my opinion) is not something you should do often and i disagree that it cannot cause any harm. It is a FACT that running any motor and drive line at high RPM's opens up the potential to cause excessive wear and cause failure of components. And on a mass produced truck not designed for it the potential for damage is much higher.

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and the the timing chain and the gears are not plastic lol
Nowhere in any post did i say the timing chain was plastic. I said the timing chain sprockets teeth were. More accurately i said i know they WERE (or the tensioner) at least on my 06' Hemi. Not sure if they are on the current motors.
 

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Old 11-19-2014 | 10:47 PM
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14's are impressive, congrats on the new truck! I pulled a 15.5-- with my '13 Sport CC, but that was just for kicks one weeknight I was at the track helping a friend with data logging on an LY platform.
 
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Old 11-20-2014 | 12:11 PM
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Thats fast for a true 4x4. Enjoy your rig, its a beauty.
 



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