COE plan/questions/advice

Thats great. Thank you for your clarification. How we went from talking about a 1500 hp dd15 supposedly running the road in the us. To competition trucks blowing black smoke with French guys outside of the us hauling b trains of lumber is beyond me. But i will take your word for it, on both of those being the same thing.

 

Lol.....next somebody is gonna drag out some air wolf....

 

If it’s got a cabover involved then it’s fair game!!
Meanwhile,here’s something a little more current. Sometimes you have to play the villain!!

 

Well, I seen a marmon coe and a bunch of other ugly ### trucks.

 

I read it as it was a canadian truck, an argosy, tuned at Diesel Spec, which is in Quebec, that runs the us, that makes 1500hp, and YOU doubted it. I offered proof of said Frenchmen.
I've been up to the drags, a bunch of years ago (was doing a lay over close by so a friend and I took in part of a day) so I commented.
Sorry if I over stepped. Sir.

 

My truck shouldn’t scare anybody. It’s a train tractor. Geared for 65mph at 1600rpm and that’s where it spends most of the day. I’m not looking for power to run 100mph. I use it to drag 140,000lbs up 2 or 3 miles of 12% without being there all day. Plus big output means you get a bigger engine brake in the deal. I run mine between 1600-1900, but because the peak hp is so high it’s still putting out enough power at cruise rpm’s that it will tow a b-train without me wearing the shift knob off it. Enough extra power that over a given stretch of road I sometimes manage a higher average speed than trucks that are 60,000lbs lighter than I am, without driving like a lunatic.

 

The only way I made money on lumber out of BC was with a set of 30-30 pre-TAC super-b’s. I was pulling it with a cab over so I was short enough over all I could load over the back and still make 82’. I could put 20bndl of 2x6-16 on that truck. Some mills liked that load out enough they’d pay to go east.

 

On an Etch & Sketch??