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Diesel Owner
I am looking at a 1998 ecsb 2500 with a 6.5 turbo diesel with 5k miles on a freshly rebuilt engine and tranny. engine was rebuilt with 18:1 pistons and a banks turbo kit. He claims it makes around 365hp an over 600 flbs of torque. I went and looked it over and sure enough it has a Banks turbo. I took it for a text drive and it deffinatly has more pep than my friends k1500 with a 6.5. Barks the tires on pavement with no real trouble. He is selling it because he just bought a 2006 Duramax. I was wondering what your thoughts are on the 6.5 with these mods? I will be using it as a DD and to pull a 30 foot goose neck from time to time.. The farm that owns the goose neck already pulls it with a 6.2l with some kind of after market turbo kit and it does just fine. the trouble is, Every time I want to use the trailer their truck needs to be available at the same time and its on snowplow duty this winter so trailering is out of the question unless i get something with enough get up and go to pull it. Not only that but I'm sick of re filling my truck every other day as it only gets 14mpg