Sorry all, this is way off topic but I had to drop in and share it with some like-minded motorheads.
In my "career" I have tuned and added aftermarket products to a wide variety of vehicles: cars, SUVs, motorcycles, on and on. A couple weekends ago, my eyes were opened to a new aftermarket segment: performance products for turbo-diesel pickup trucks and SUVs.
There is a local "diesel truck tuner" by the name of Valley Fuel Injection, who's the local dealer of BD Diesel Peformace Products. A buddy of mine had a little bit of work done on his fishing truck there and the rest is history.
Long story short, this tuner has clients who have spent thousands - in some cases tens of thousands - of dollars on BD and other products in order to increase their truck's power for towing purposes...and now street performance! The list of parts sounds reasonably similar to that of an import turbo performance catalog. Some of these guys were running full-length (from the turbo to the tailpipes) FIVE-inch exhausts; boost levels were well over 50 PSI...well over One Hundred PSI in some instances. Can you believe it??
Twice a year, the tuner hosts an event named "Dyno Days," where clients and enthusiasts come from far & wide to witness the King Of The Hill on the firm's rolling dynanometer. People eat hot dogs, watch trucks make dyno pulls, and witness the results on a projected screen. The winner(s) get recognition and a prize I believe.
We saw horsepower figures typically in the 350 RWHP range, with some trucks getting close to and over 500 RWHP. Die-hards kept their closest eye on horsepower figures; however, "newbies" such as myself were crying with laughter over the TORQUE these monsters were putting out!!!
To put it into real-life terms: I saw several Dodge, Ford and Chevy diesel pickups (mostly "duellies," no less) that were capable of 13-second quarter miles. Yes that's right...6-and-7-thousand-pound trucks capable of running with most sports cars...AND capable of laying down eighth-mile patches of rubber...NO exageration!!!!
The show-stealer was the firm's own experimental 2002 Dodge 2500 Sport short-box. This truck was silver in color and - with the exception of suspicious red traction bars out back - a complete sleeper.
You could imagine the laughter and disbelief when it produced 550 RWHP...and almost 1,290 FOOT POUNDS OF REAR-WHEEL TORQUE. This truck HAS BEEN CLOCKED - TWICE - at 11.8 in the quarter-mile.
All in all, it was eye-opening and f**king hilarious. I must admit we were tempted to go order diesel trucks for a couple days. Imagine running away from an ML55 (and, say, a CLK 55) with your noisy old Dodge Ram!
Anyway, that's my story. But don't take MY word for it!
http://www.bd-vfi.com/dynoday/index.php
http://www.bd-power.com/dynoday/bigoff.html
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OT:Diesel Pick-Ups Trucks!
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