Interesting Ford and Chevy with the same transmission.

 

back in april 06 when i bought my truck. i was looking at pretty much the same 2 trucks only difference being one was manual the other auto and there was a $1500 difference in price right of the dealer lot so its just all around "cheaper??" for the manual trans. i just wish i would have paid the extra 1500 and got the auto due to the fact these new variable vane turbos suck ***** with a manual tranny. but i definitly agree with you on popularity there are not no where near as many people that want manual trannies these days as compared to 5-10 years ago.

 

No not at all... people are getting lazyer by the year i swear. It also doesnt help in your case that variable vane turbos suck *** period. My buddy has an LLY Duramax and yea teh turbo sounds cool when it spools down adn releases pressure but he cant win a race to save his life. I even tried driving it and i found that the variable vane turbos wont spool as hard as the wastegated ones. I guess that wont matter anymore, he just ordered a new turbo.

 

Well Garrett makes good turbos but the Variable Vane wasn't one of their better Ideas.

 

ya i been in contact with the guys at elitediesel about a wastegated fixed vane turbo so hopefully that will help because i really like the manual especially when im pulling my 5th wheel. but it just sucks when it comes time to go fast its kind of a hindrance. but it works out good im getting ready to head to colorado for a job and they are located in colorado so i can go check it out.

 

The variable vane was designed to make boost at lower RPM levels and for better fuel mileage and it does just about niether. Yea that low rev boost on tap is nice but i have rarely needed to have to spool the turbo at low revs. I put the LB7 turbo on my LBZ and it worked way better having a wastegated turbo that spools harder. Wastegated turbos just seem like the way to go.

 

yep ill agree 100% if we could now just get engineers to stick with whats been tried and trued through out all these years to just stick with it wed be lot better off. but instead they all wanna be the guy that comes up with the NEXT BIG THING. and they usually end up screwing everything up in the process!!!

 

^^^ Isnt that how it always is?

 

Wow VVT suck well thats news to a lot of people. What else do you know about our trucks that no one else does?

 

they do suck :dm2: