True, but they also get, oh, 8mpg if theyre lucky. Imagine a 500hp s/c Toyota that still gets 12-14mpg.
You are right. My buddy has a duramax with bully dog chip and he just ordered the KN intake, banks intercooler, and banks exhaust. Now with only the chip on stage 1 that thing whoops my [email protected]@. He's not done ordering more parts either, next is injectors and some engine work.
That same block in the SRT-10, is actually quite capable of putting out double the horse it's rated at. The Cummins Deisels can also naturally do alot more due to their high torque and chip possibilities. But quit talking "MPG" and "Sport-Performance" all in the same discussion. Does you're engine burn fuel with a combustion system? Yes. So the rate at which you burn your fuel or how cheap your truck is/was, has nothing to do with buying a class of sport-truck (even diesel) that does the quarter-mile the quickest, carrying at least 6 passengers, and towing a load. Not that people race trucks in that fasion. But my money's on Dodge. Super-charge the hell out of your Tundra, the domestics will still top it in power.
Acccording to the various magazine and online tests,the tundras with the 5.7 are posting substantially quicker 0-60mph and 1/4 mile times than the dodge hemi 5.7.To me it sounds like they are dominating the dodge 5.7 hemi,not "barely competing" with it.
Of course it is easy to spread rumours,but rumours often do not turn out as expected.Then again,do you not suppose that if dodge does introduce a more powerful engine in 2009 that toyota could do the same to maintain their advantage?
That same block in the SRT-10, is actually quite capable of putting out double the horse it's rated at. The Cummins Deisels can also naturally do alot more due to their high torque and chip possibilities. But quit talking "MPG" and "Sport-Performance" all in the same discussion. Does you're engine burn fuel with a combustion system? Yes. So the rate at which you burn your fuel or how cheap your truck is/was, has nothing to do with buying a class of sport-truck (even diesel) that does the quarter-mile the quickest, carrying at least 6 passengers, and towing a load. Not that people race trucks in that fasion. But my money's on Dodge. Super-charge the hell out of your Tundra, the domestics will still top it in power.
All the same, the current 5.7L Tundra iForce is only (barely) competing with Dodge's emission-choked small-block Hemi 5.7L. The 2009's are rumored to contain the 6.1L and 6.4L Hemi's. 425 HP and over 550 HP.
(Stock, un-modified).
Threads like these bring out the trolls...
This is a good point, but that 6.1 Hemi wouldn't be able to touch the Tundra's 5.7 in fuel efficiency...
BS! There are videos on the net of SC'd 6.0 Chevy's putting out 1000hp on the street. If you seriously think that other manufacturers couldn't get more power out of their existing engines you're crazy. If Toyota was so far ahead of everyone then why couldn't get 300 hp from the 4.7? We're not talking about 300 hp differences here, were talking 30 or so. Toyota is running a DOHC engine with headers to get that 381, GM is using a pushrod without headers to get their HP.
I'm sure if Toyota wanted to make a truck to compete with the SRT-10 Ram or the Lightning they'd have no problem doing so. The fact that the production engine can even come close to competing with the above trucks with their specialized engines shows how far ahead of the game Toyota is right now.
There isn't one standard production half ton truck that would make the HP a Toyota would after being S/C'd. The nicest thing about it is that the engine's internals should handle it no problem. Only minor mod's should need to be made to the tranny and rear end.
