Posted by jon f mn on September 05, 2014 at 06:10:18 from (70.195.65.38):
In Reply to: Re: Truck questions posted by Lazy WP on September 05, 2014 at 05:27:57:
I hear this a lot, you could maybe get 100 mph going down hill but it would take tremendous hp to pull it flat. I got this graph from Cummins, it is for a box truck and a cattle pot pulls a lot harder than that. If you look at the rate of increase it would take well over 800 hp to get 100 mph with a box truck and more than that with a cattle truck. If your ever by the Iowa 80 truck stop in the quad cities check out the truck museum, they have a truck in there that held the land speed record for trucks for a while. It is heavily modified with airodynamics, lowered and lightened and with 1300 hp and only got about 150 mph. If it hadn't had the mods and had pulled a trailer I doubt it would have made 120 mph.
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