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the LS1 forum's opinion of the "diesel fad"

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Old 04-21-2005 | 02:15 PM
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Cars are for girls.
Old 04-21-2005 | 04:05 PM
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700lbs over the front axle, 700lbs OVER THE FRONT AXLE!!!!!!!!! Man what a turdbag, plain SBC weighs it at 550lbs, duramax I think is 200lbs heavier and the cummins is 500lbs heavier then a gasser. I dont see where the extra 500-700lbs comes from?
Old 04-21-2005 | 04:20 PM
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Ignorance is bliss I guess.
Old 04-21-2005 | 07:39 PM
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I love the fact that I bought a diesel because I can (just like they bought an LS1 because they can) and THEY are the ones loosing sleep over it.

Really intelligent conversation with the swearing/personal attacks/lack of facts. Sounds like a group of high schoolers that know everything .

Either way, we just need to prove to them what makes out trucks that much better on the street/strip. I need to make my '92 into a sleeper (my $45k '92 ) and beat them all.


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ps- what i dont get is they attack their competition (diesels) rather than an invitation to a competition????
Old 04-21-2005 | 09:37 PM
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they're mad cause diesel guys are beatin up on them without even tryin.
Old 04-21-2005 | 09:42 PM
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I've had two LS1's, one LT1, vortec 454, along with a 600 now and all of them ran great and are fun to drive.
Old 04-22-2005 | 09:37 AM
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I don't understand the "They don't need it" line. The last time I checked, this is a country based on freedom to choose. Sounds like they want to take that away. They sound like a bunch of liberal, high school mush heads.
Old 04-22-2005 | 10:53 AM
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That was pretty sorry. Where are they shopping for diesel trucks? $45,000?? yeah, if you just fell off the pumkin truck. One thing I did get from reading that thread, INCENTIVE!

I've alway been a Mopar guy, so I don't know much about the LS1, but I wouldn't complain about someone buying a car to hop up and run brackets. What does a LS1 go for anyway? Maybe I'll buy a couple! Using their logic, by me owning a diesel I should be able to afford it.

Why? would anyone buy a car just to wash and polish and ride around on sunny days, looking in fear as the dark storm clouds approach, realizing that he is a long way away from his tiddy garage. He pulls under the underpass waiting the strom to pass. With a shigh of relief he begins his journey back home, he applies his turn signal to merge into traffic only to be meet by another thunderous black cloud. Cummins!
Old 04-22-2005 | 01:33 PM
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I like the guy with horses saying people don't need a diesel truck...

You NEED horses... why?

Good stuff.
Old 04-22-2005 | 05:44 PM
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Went there, very entertaining.
Pretty clueless bunch.
I didn't know we had to change our oil more. I better stop testing and start changing.
Old 04-22-2005 | 06:38 PM
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I love the line where the guy says

"Diesels suck off road. Probably right there but so does a gas powered dually. Not to mention ya ever tried to four wheel a camaro? I owned a camaro and a firebird and honestly it doesnt work to good either. You really need to compare apples to apples on this one."

Heck, i dont even need my diesel... but i bought it because it holds value, is reliable, gets good gas mileage, and i know i can tow or haul around anything i want whenever i want. Buncha morons for thinking that everyone that buys a truck needs to go mudding. lol
Old 04-22-2005 | 07:13 PM
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I jumped on them Im bout to send them some video of diesels in action.
Old 04-22-2005 | 07:48 PM
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Originally posted by nickleinonen
seems like a very edumacated crowd there... lots of MOTOR talk there my truck has a blower motor, and a starter motor, but no diesel motor...

how hard is it to under stand it is an engine... be it gasoline or diesel engine...

Good....

Now give them a link to this thread...



Cross forum rivalry time???
Old 04-22-2005 | 08:18 PM
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Originally posted by Begle1
Good....

Now give them a link to this thread...



Cross forum rivalry time???
I don't think that would be a smart thing to do. Don't think Jack would be happy about that.
Old 04-22-2005 | 08:27 PM
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It just looks like the whole premise of that thread is 'why buy a diesel, if you do not tow, haul, or ( to a lesser degree ) race ' . . . .

Maybe it's just me - but I don't know ANYBODY that owns a diesel truck that DOESN'T - tow, haul, or ( to a lesser degree ) race. . . .


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