Vortex heads

[78C10BigTen]

You couldnt give me a cummins!!!!

 

[Frankenchevy]

You couldnt give me a cummins!!!!

I wouldn’t go that far, lol! The 12v is definitely one of the greatest engines of all time.

 

[78C10BigTen]

I wouldn’t go that far, lol! The 12v is definitely one of the greatest engines of all time.

If given to me free.... i would immediately slam it on craigslist for an astronomically retarded price! For all those "roll coal" ****!

 

[Frankenchevy]

If given to me free.... i would immediately slam it on craigslist for an astronomically retarded price! For all those "roll coal" ****!

Yeah, I think turning up the fuel on any diesel, if your only goal is to puff smoke, is wasteful. I’m more in the camp of turn it down and get 25mpg in a full-size, but I’m a weirdo.

 

[78C10BigTen]

Yeah, I think turning up the fuel on any diesel, if your only goal is to puff smoke, is wasteful. I’m more in the camp of turn it down and get 25mpg in a full-size, but I’m a weirdo.

Im with you... all that black smoke is wasted fuel, why just blow it out into the air?? I was taught not to waste.

 

[78C10BigTen]

Now is someone gave me a 6.5!

 

[Frankenchevy]

I’m kicking myself over a truck I should’ve picked up a while back. It was a k2500 6.5. A guy was selling it for his 80-something year old dad. Had low miles and he said it had teeth missing from the flexplate so it wouldn’t start. Was only asking $1700, but it sold before I had time to make it over there. Would’ve made a good grandpa ranch truck, but I don’t really need more of those. Maybe it was a blessing in disguise.

 

[78C10BigTen]

I’m kicking myself over a truck I should’ve picked up a while back. It was a k2500 6.5. A guy was selling it for his 80-something year old dad. Had low miles and he said it had teeth missing from the flexplate so it wouldn’t start. Was only asking $1700, but it sold before I had time to make it over there. Would’ve made a good grandpa ranch truck, but I don’t really need more of those. Maybe it was a blessing in disguise.

My friend had a gmt400 with a 6.5 and 5spd manual, truck had a 4 or 5" pipe from the Y pipe back.... Man that truck sounded AWESOME!!! Best soundin diesel i ever heard. It would always wear the back tires b4 the fronts.

 

[1987 GMC Jimmy]

I wouldn’t go that far, lol! The 12v is definitely one of the greatest engines of all time.

If given to me free.... i would immediately slam it on craigslist for an astronomically retarded price! For all those "roll coal" ****!

Between you guys on this one. I think that early 12Vs (89-93) are pretty desirable and solid motors. You have a very powerful engine with some room for improvement, and you have a very simple, mechanical setup handling everything. At this time, you had the 6.2, which was what it was, and the 7.3 IDI. There’s no competition there or with several subsequent offerings. The only pickup diesel I prefer over the old 12V is a Navistar 7.3 PSD. They are powerful and have been known to run over a million miles without a rebuild if cared for by the book. Even abused, they can clock in the 300K or so area without needing major repairs.

Anyway, fast forward a few years, we’ll say about 1998, and Dodge really starts to tack all their electronic trash onto it. It may have significantly boosted performance potential, but it did so at the cost of reliability, and I say this from a second person POV (little brother owns one of these lemons, threw his entire savings at it, and it’s a pitiful excuse for a vehicle), not a keyboard warrior’s one. Unless you are one of the aforementioned coal rolling faggots, a truck is useless if it’s not reliable.

 

[bucket]

The later electrified, 24v 5.9 and 6.7 are both good and reliable in my experience with them. Most of them were in abused tractors. A friend of mine has a few as well (Dodge trucks) and they have been reliable.

 

[shiftpro]

If given to me free.... i would immediately slam it on craigslist for an astronomically retarded price! For all those "roll coal" ****!

Hey hang on there a sec...
there IS a time and PLACE for rollin coal..

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Watch it 'till the end! Priceless..

 

[eskimomann209]

I’m kicking myself over a truck I should’ve picked up a while back. It was a k2500 6.5. A guy was selling it for his 80-something year old dad. Had low miles and he said it had teeth missing from the flexplate so it wouldn’t start. Was only asking $1700, but it sold before I had time to make it over there. Would’ve made a good grandpa ranch truck, but I don’t really need more of those. Maybe it was a blessing in disguise.

Coming from sbc engines I can see that being a first thought. But on the Chevy diesels. The mounting holes for the starter would break clean off. Sometimes people thing it’s just a few teeth missing in the wheel. But it’s worse. If you plan on buying one check the starter area for JB weld. That’s the most common “solution”

 

[Rusty Nail]

Keep seeing people refer to vortex heads. Do they really flow better than the factory vortec versions?

Oh yeah man. M R D 45 horsepower heads. Ya them Vortex. That's what u want cuz M R D good ones!
The I think the vortecks are the crappy gas mileage ones they put on p*ssy trucks.
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[Jeramie]

Just like when they say ideal instead of idea. Or call a hand truck a "two wheeler" it's either inability to spell and pronounce words properly, autocorrect, or outright slang terms instead of actual part names.

 

[Rusty Nail]

Chock it up to something similar to saying warsh when you really mean wash. Vortex = Vortec

I disagree. Warsh is something completely different than wash.

Like....your nuts , for example. You don't warsh your nuts - you wash them but nobody washes their clothes, jeans and stuff get warshed.
Warshing is much stronger and more vigorous than washing. There is a time and a place for each.


Hope this helps!