Attitude abounds, y'all. Calm down. Both have made good points in your
debate, but take some scissors to the crap.
Merry Christmas.
Robert Trottmann
rotrottmann@davidson.edu
Craig Baltzer wrote:
> You didn't say what was in the truck in your first post (and your sig
> line at that point didn't include the motor (which I now notice you have
> added)), so I had to ask. Jim Oitzinger rambled on
>
> Where you in any condition to read the post when you the above?
> Just how
> did you make "tooling along in 3rd at 65" into "requires 3rd
> gear to have
> any hoot at 65"? What does it do to your credibility? Isn't
> this just
> trash talk?
>
> I read from that you were complaining about the lack of power in the
> truck. From the first part of your comment about 65 in 3rd I read as you
> had to do that to have any power. Maybe we drive differently, but I
> don't "cruise" on the highway at 65mph in 3rd gear unless I'm looking to
> get by something smartly. And how you can have a 5.2l and state that you
> can't get those "big" tires to spin off the line amazes me. Try
> launching the truck at anything over 2000 rpm in 1st gear and you'll
> have loads of wheelspin.
>
> Jim Oitzinger rambled on
>
> Do you base this on your Dak's performance before or after its
> trip to
> Robson Racing?
> Is your Dak covered by warranty? Some guys have bumped up the
> performance
> level of their Daks to the point they can run, and run hot, with
> 3.21 ratios
> but Dodge is holding the warranty.
>
> My comments were based on my stock truck as I noticed you had a new
> stock truck. I had it 7-8 months before any work was done on it by
> Robson, and it had good power from day one. What I did find is that it
> got quicker as it got older, and seems to get noticeably stronger after
> 3-4K miles. Thats been fairly common for just about any vehicle I've
> had. As to the warranty question, aside from the headers and exhaust
> (headers are Mopar parts and do not void any warranties, and you can do
> whatever you like with a cat-back and not void anything), they would
> have to tear the motor apart to find the rest. Guess we'll see the first
> time it needs warranty work.
>
> I'm sorry to hear that you're disappointed with the power of your new
> truck, but don't expect to be treated as credible saying things like
> "there is no way I can get those big 31x10.5 to spin off the line" in
> the company of a group of people who actually own and drive the trucks.
> And as others have mentioned, going from a 3.55 to a 3.92 is not going
> to make a dramatic difference; if you can't figure out how to spin the
> tires off the line with the 3.55, you still won't be able to figure out
> how to do it with the 3.92s...
>
> Craig
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