SPAL USA's "Rocket Ranger" truck sets C/Diesel Truck land speed record
The Buckeye Bullet 2 and Ford's Hydrogen Fusion 999 were not the only vehicles out at the Bonneville Salt Flats recently. Last week, the "Rocket Ranger," a modified Ford Ranger pickup, set a new land speed record as the World's Fastest Diesel Pickup Truck. The Rocket Ranger's average speed in the run was 215.091 miles-per-hour, which is almost two mph higher than the previous record (213.583) in the "C/Diesel Truck" class.
The "Rocket Ranger" has a Ford Powerstroke/International 6.0-liter diesel engine with Hypermax intercooled series turbochargers, injectors and Mach 7 performance module, dual SPAL USA 12" high-performance cooling fans and a ZF 6-speed transmission, according to SPAL. The Rocket Ranger might return to the Flats this fall to try and beat the new record. The truck has been able to go as fast as 222 mph, but not (yet) in the full series of tests.
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bioburner 4:04PM (8/27/2007)
What is so "green" about racing a pickup truck in the desert? How much time and money went in to this project? Would it not be better to spend the engineering talent and money developing electric cars (whoups I forgot they sold that company) or following GM's lead and giving away a few fuel cell SUVs to improve their public image?
It seems racing takes top priority over CAFE compliance.
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Owain Ozymandias Buck 7:56AM (8/28/2007)
Well, it's not very green. But with diesels like this, it does help to showcase the most efficient of the IC engines. Sometimes racing improvements can lead to better engineering and efficiency. In the case of trucks with big diesels, maybe not so much. When you crank up the fuel and start billowing smoke, that's not very thrifty--but dang it's fun!
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Angel 1:05AM (10/26/2007)
"Rocket Ranger," is one of the best trucker. It is a modified Ford Ranger pickup, set a new land speed record as the World's Fastest Diesel Pickup Truck.
It is better than the trucks which uses huge amount of diesel. But it wont consume so much. When you crank up the fuel and start billowing smoke, that's not very thrifty--but dang it's fun!
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Angel 12:39AM (10/26/2007)
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Angel 12:42AM (10/26/2007)
It is not only enough to get the quantitative service, but it must also be qualitative one. That means, the service provided by the trucking company must be good and they must be honest to us. We get only few companies like this who provide all these. But one of them I found with all this. So, if you want see how honest and good my service was just log on to http://www.bigriggigs.net/. Hope this gives you enough information about trucking and trucking jobs.
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