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Originally Posted by Laneco
The amount of power these modern diesel pickups are capable of making without changing the internals is absolutely staggering. I've personally seen street driven trucks running north of a 1,000 pounds of torque.
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Well, I'd like to see the actual hp numbers as it is going to take close to triple digit numbers to get something with that frontal area to 180 mph. 1000 ft-lbs is about 760 hp at 4000 rpm, and it would take every bit of that to get a truck like that up to 180 mph.
Car and Driver (IIRC) did an article back in the day where they kept adding hp to a Trans Am (one of the mid-90s versions with decent aerodynamics) until it could reach 200 mph. It took over 600 hp. And the TransAm had probably half the frontal area of that truck.
I'm not saying it didn't do it, I'm just skeptical of the "mostly stock" statement.