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Re: Gas powered engine horsepower equivalent to electrical motor horsepower?

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Originally Posted by kacz100
My dad has the 7.3L Ford diesel..20mph+ after his turbo problem he hasn't had any problems...but Fords are cheap, we need to put some extra springs in the front end because the frontend went down 2 inches...

Diesels rule and gas drools (at the sight of a diesel engine)

I agree for the most part - but Diesels have their place just as gas does.

I'd just like to see a lot more american/imported to america vehicles have Diesel engines. That's the main problem with the MPG of the bigger vehicles (suv, truck, ect...) - you need more torque to make that heaver load go - more power = more gas - and gas works at a lower compression ratio compared to diesel (gas runs at about 8.5-9.0 : 1 on most gas, diesels run anywhere from 14.0 - 22.0 :1 compression ratios.) And diesels can run much, much leaner than a gas engine can. And you can run your diesel engine off of Vegatable oil!! (http://www.greseal.com)
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