Never spotted this!
4.5s to 60 and 1/4 mile a smidge under 13s is damn quick mate. I managed a 12.9 once in my Mustang with 460HP, damn manual gearbox and a 12.9s in my E46 M3 which had 360HP and weighed 1300kg, but again damn SMG.
Just proves how effective a decent automatic is at launching of the line and not fluffing any gear changes as your truck is absolutely hauling, bet you must love it if you get a hot hatch along side you and you then just decimate them off the line.
Does it have cylinder deactivation when cruising? If so suspect it will do 25+ on a run, did a 600 mile round trip in the M5 this weekend, average for weekend was 20mpg and on motorway it was returning 23mpg at 85mph and 26mpg at 70mph, so if can't see yours being too far of that considering the M5 has no overdrive or cylinder deactivation and is feeding 10 hungry cylinders, lol.
Hahaha, cheers man appreciate,d nice to know people appreciate just raw muscle, nothing complicated with fancy engine tricks, turbo's etc etc... it's just raw silly power and sound... chuffed with it now, but more power is needed next year, but that'll be super charger as unless you stroke these to 426's and cams, you're limited. a reprofiled cam alone can add 50bhp@wheels incredibly with original springs/lifters etc. generally if you bore them out to 7.1 litre (i.e. 426) then add cam and headers you're looking over 600bhp... and a fuel econmy around 8mpg lol.
Right now, this is as far is it'll go with standard tweaks etc. Yeah it does feel good, because to look at it, you'd neveer think it could do what it does and it's fail safe. Basically off the line in wet or dry, it'll be 4.5-4.8 tops... where'as controlling power in RWD or FWD cars is hit and miss and takes a some skill, this thing you just nail it, it lifts the bonnet up and throws itself down the line. Love it.
As for the cylinders no, thankfully it's 8 all the time and the reason I say thankfully is, all the recent post 2012 MDS enabled SRT's with the slightly bigger 6.4ltr all the lifters go, cams and rods... pretty much all fail and I believe as do otehrs it'linked to the deactivation of the cylinders... so, the 6.1ltr is where it's at. Also, it's the most robust engine for tuning... so, safe for 650bhp before you even have to think about transmission, diffs etc. which is nice to know. Its' getting 15.1mpg on small crappy runs, but bet I could be doing wayyy over 20 on a long run on a motorway I reckon, cruising at 80.
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