New 2014 Glider kit. 60 series Detroit or N14 Cummins

47,000 barely a load depending on the trailer and tractor combination. I will tell you, that many of the company trucks at my carrier have difficulty with scaling a 47,000 lb load with full tanks. Most can't. You assume way too much. There was no race, but I did have several instances where someone was moving up behind me to pass, but lost everything on the hill compared to mine. I had the cruise set the entire run. Wasn't in any kind of race. Anyone who wanted to pass me by exceeding the speed limit was welcome. No one did, and I was able to open the gap on almost every hill we went up.

I didn't waste any money increasing HP and torque on mine at all! Again, you assume too much. Sure, it is set to it's maximum, as it was when I got it from the factory. All I did was put on a better flowing ported/polished/coated exhaust manifold, a larger Borg Warner 171702 turbo in place to the waste gate OEM version. Put a turbo blanket on the turbo to help maintain high exhaust flow, and ran that back to Walker Megaflow high flow mufflers not the stacks behind the sleeper. I just streamlined what was already there and allowed the engine to breath properly. No ECM reprograms to boost things all over the place.

The point i made, and reiterate, is that the Detroit 60, when tweaked properly, will compete very favorably with any Cat or Cummins on the road, in similar situations, except those that have been put on steroids.

 

Detroit, Cummins, and CAT are the best non-egr engines for trucks.

 

I didn't assume anything,I read it for myself, you printed it. And if you tweak a Cat or Cummins as you call it you would still only see there tail lights. My point was a 47,000 lb load 350 HP would be plenty. It's the trucker mentality that keeps some people spending on stuff you don't need in the first place.That why truck stops sell Trinkets...........

 

Well, if your happy with it, that's all that matters, but don't expect to climb a hill with me behind you , LOL!!!

 

Detroit is easier to powerup and seems to be more forgiving as well as being more current.

 

Not surprising this is from a Cannuk driving a truck with that rediculous speed governor. 350hp? Really.... When I was pulling time sensitive and under 10k lbs from Detroit to Laredo you'd be correct, I didn't "need" the 600+hp from a tweeked S60. However the return trip into Ohio was a weee bit more weight, typically scaling 79,800lbs. The return load wasnt time sensitive except that I needed to make my Detroit p/u time. I'd pay to see a 350hp truck drag 79+ from Laredo to Columbus in the time I did it. Especially using the route I did to avoid Memphis, Nashville, and Bowling Green.

 

Says he's from B.C, no governor on that truck unless he runs out to Ontario or further east. Plus bc got the Canadian Rockies, little bit more to them than in Tennessee. Also if he's running super b- trains then 47k lbs ain't even close to a load at all. The max gross you run in the states ain't even the full weight of a super b-trains net load weight. Especially if he's hauling decks.

 

Your only hittin' 1500 at 73 gettin' 6.8? D*******MN IT BOY! You've got my attention!

 

That's the average. Not instant.

 

I read on truck news that they are changing the enforcement of glider kit rules.
Just a thought!