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Originally Posted by RCB
Out of curiosity, is there a reason you skipped over the 6.5TD? It's not uncommon and many people get right around 30mpg without any aero mods in hot rod applications and it's relatively straight forward (as long as you're comfortable with the electronics).
I'm guessing cheap access to the v6 and 6 speed?
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When choosing powerplants a diesel used to be a great choice - but now the economics of it just doesn't make sense:
1. Getting a used 6.5 diesel and computer package will cost a ton of money and will have a crapload of miles on it. Repairing a 6.5 costs almost triple what the equivalent gas motor would cost.
2. The V6 he chose has twice the power and torque of the 6.5
3. The gas cost for gas vs diesel here in Virginia is 1 dollar / gallon. So with both engines getting theoretically the same gas mileage, the gas version would cost less every fill up to drive.
4. The gas engine is 200 pounds lighter than the 6.5
5. The gas engine runs much cleaner than the 6.5