Interesting RAM Hurricane Information From An Engineer

[00:00:00]All right, hey guys, Jason here. We are up here at Jimmy Britt right here. Jimmy Britt, Statesboro, Georgia, and we are going to talk about some interesting information on the actual Hurricane. And behind us we have an Express. It's a 2026 Ram 1500 Express. They did put a level kit on it and put 35 1250s on it, 20s. Looks amazing. This has got the power running board options on it. As an Express, there's no bed power, no bed lights in this. You guys know how I feel no bed liner bumps me out. But rear slider, this is a nice truck in this Express trim. $54,000 is what this is, four-wheel drive.

[00:00:37]That's a sweet truck, I'm not going to lie. It's a straight-up gorgeous truck.

[00:00:41]I like what they've done with it. And the kicker part is it has the Hurricane.

[00:00:46]The Hurricane. The I6 Hurricane, and that is what we are talking about today.

[00:00:51]So, we are going to break this down for you. But Tim over at Pickup Truck Talk and and SUV Talk had an interview with the chief engineer over at Ram, and he talked a little bit about this Hurricane. I found this information pretty interesting. So, where they coming in at? Filosky came is the guy who's the director of propulsion systems at Ram, and he's got some information on the Hurricane, okay? First of all, he says that the Hurricane was not built to replace the Hemi or to make the Hemi go away. The Hemi went away because the Hurricane was actually built to do everything better. So, they figured there's no reason for the Hemi because the Hurricane does everything better.

[00:01:32]They said right there that they said that they were their goal was to create an engine that outperform the 5.7 Hemi in all categories, okay? Those three categories were the target areas were horsepower, torque, and miles per gallon. And they crushed it. They beat it. It blows the Hemi away. There's just no doubt about it. People wanted the Hemi back, so it came back.

[00:01:56]And it's here now for people that want it, but there's no denying it the Hurricane engine blows the doors off of the Hemi in every single category.

[00:02:04]Um They said too, he said that people are outdated in their thinking about turbos.

[00:02:08]He said the hardest thing that they have or that anybody fights today in the automotive industry is trying to convince people that they still think turbos are bad. They still think turbos wear out. They still think turbos go bad. They still think engines that run turbos can't handle it and they're stuck in the days of when turbos used to be put in it would just slap turbos onto an engine. It was a pre-existing engine and then they would have those problems. The Hurricane also like GM said with the 2.7 which is proven to be one of the best engines GM has, the 2.7 Turbo Max, it was built from the ground up knowing it would be turboed.

[00:02:45]The Hurricane was built from the ground up knowing it would be a twin turbo truck application engine and it was made 100% for that. It also knew it was going to run um high output and a standard output which we'll talk about a minute cuz there's a very interesting distinction that they do with the high output that they don't do with the standard output that I wonder if we as consumers should be doing. We'll get to that. You will probably will want to hear that. We'll have that covered up, but I want to stick in order here.

[00:03:16]So says they wanted to create this engine that blew the doors off the Hemi in every possible way. They did it. Now, it also says that they chose an inline six for this because of the inline six durability, balance, and smoothness. Now, if you have not drove a Hurricane standard output or high output, I've drove both now, okay, but if you have not drove this, you have no idea what we're talking about when we talk about smooth. Butter smooth, yet so much power. I just can't put it to you any other way. You just don't understand it, but people are like, "But it doesn't SOUND LIKE A V8." NO, it does not sound like a V8. Thank God it doesn't sound like a V8. I'm a hunter. I'm in the woods all the time. I'm cruising backroads, we're looking for deer and hogs and stuff and just enjoying scenery and nature with my family and windows down. I don't want to listen to a V8.

[00:04:10]Not even remotely.

[00:04:12]I love the quiet purr sewing machine sound of this thing. You don't even know it's even running. I love this engine all day long. Again, I I can tolerate it. And then when you're towing with a V8, like I said, these new ones, how they kind of tone down the exhaust note when you're going is not too bad, but my God, I get so tired of that drone that would come back off of my trailers and you know, it'd just drive you nuts as it would bounce. I'm not a fan.

[00:04:35]I don't care about loud exhaust. I don't care about a GT exhaust. I don't care what it sounds like. I don't start it up and go I have a V8 right now, a 6.4 Hemi in my 2500. I could care less if my 6.4 offered the Hurricane high output engine in my 6.4 25 or in my Ram 2500 Power Wagon, I would take that Hurricane all day, every day. I would trade mine in immediately and go buy that one. That's what I do. And I love my 6.4 in my Power Wagon. So, but I'd take the Hurricane all day. So, he says that's their biggest battle, but they chose it, the inline six, because of the fact that they're smooth. They're also the most durable. Semites Most of your semi trucks, they're an inline six turbo diesel, okay? Most of the best engines made today over history have been inline engines. Inline engines are perfectly balanced, they work fantastic, they're beautiful systems. So, they chose to use that. Says um the like I said, it's the Hurricane was always planned as a turbo. Everything from the cylinders, the cylinder designs, the engine, the temperatures, the cooling systems, the materials used, everything about it was designed to be built a following the same build quality structure and techniques used to build turbo diesel engines. Because turbo diesel engines are built to last, they run forever, and they do a great job.

[00:05:55]So, if they're going to make a turbo inline six engine, just like GM making their 2.7 turbo four-cylinder that puts out more horsepower than a 5.7 HEMI and more torque than what a 5.7 HEMI V8 does, and yet it's proven to last for so long and do so good, they wanted to make sure that they built it to last, and they did it that way on purpose, following diesel technology. Uh and then for cooling for the turbos, okay? The old days, like with my 2500 Rams back in the day, my 2019, you know, it's had written in the manual when you after a long pull on the highway or any of this kind of stuff, you got to stop and pull over when you go to get gas, let it cool down for 60 seconds before you turn it off so that it can cool the turbos down. Otherwise, you get cooking inside the turbos and deformation and seals and problems break and, you know, so you'd have to like pull up to the gas station, you'd have to sit there. My wife would be like, "What are you doing?" "I'm waiting for the turbos to cool. I got to wait. I got to wait 60 seconds." Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. Waiting for that time before I can turn it off, and then I can start pumping my gas, put gas in, start it up, and drive again. Couple hours later, we get off the road, sit there, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay, you don't have to do that anymore. Why? Cuz on a Hurricane, they actually have it liquid cooled. They have a separate another water pump, another electronic water pump that cools those turbos. So, even when you pull up to the gas after running 80 mph on the freeway for a long time, you pull into the gas station, you shut the truck off, the water pump will still it's electronic, doesn't need the engine running, it will still keep pumping cold water and fluid through the turbos to cool the turbos and prevent that from happening. They thought of everything on this engine. They did a great job with it. Um Now, also the no dipstick thing, okay?

[00:07:46]People throw a fit about the fact that it has no dipstick. Well, the reason they don't put a dipstick on it is because 99% of people don't check their own oil. I'm one of those. Okay, we had this conversation. We talked about the what oil how much oil your vehicle can burn and we talked about the one quart per so many thousand two and three quarts and what all these different brands did. I made that video about a month ago. And everybody was like, "You got to check your oil every single time you get gas."

[00:08:11]Have you bumped your head? Name five.

[00:08:15]Name five people that you know that actually go and check their oil every time they go and get gas cuz I drive 40,000 mi a year. And in that 40,000 mi a year with a 10 mi per gallon truck, okay, I get a lot of gas stops in. I have never never in years never in in years have I seen a truck at a gas pump lift the hood and somebody check their oil. Never once in years. And again, I'm driving 10 I'm get 10 mi per gallon. I'm driving 40,000 mi a year. I'm at a gas station a whole bunch. Never once have I seen it. Yet everybody in the comments, "I do it. I check it every single time.

[00:08:50]I check it all the time. I always check my oil." So, that's the reality of this.

[00:08:54]And that's what Ram said. Nobody checks their oil and if there's problems, there's no system because people are you know, it's it's just easier to have the system be fully electronic and fully be multi-backed up sensors that monitor it every single second and can let you know if there's ever an oil issue or oil level amount issue. That is why they went that route and they say it is much better and they say it quote unquote, "We know this data. Nobody checks their oil." It's the reality of it. So, that's why they did that and I'm okay with it cuz I'm the same way. I don't check my oil between oil changes. I don't have any reason to. And if I have a reason to, that vehicle's going into the shop to be fixed and if they don't fix it, that vehicle's going away. Whether I have them buy it back, lemon law, or whatever the case is, but I'm not keeping a vehicle that I have to check oil between my 5,000-mi oil changes.

[00:09:42]Brings us to this point, too.

[00:09:44]He says in here that the the 10,000-mi oil change recommendation on this, he said, "We've done the testing. It's conservative. So, if you want to go 10,000 mi, you're not going to have a problem." They say can even go longer with the oils built today and the way the motor's built, he says that not a big deal. I refuse to do that. I will still do 5,000-mi oil changes. They are not that expensive. I do them myself.

[00:10:07]They are easy. It is not worth waiting longer, and I just believe it's not going to do it. I I'm not going to play that game. So, I'm doing 5,000-mi oil changes. Plus, since I do them and I record that information, when I go to get rid of my vehicle, even on trade-ins, when they know that mine is got documentation and proof of 5,000-mi oil change intervals, I get more money for my vehicles. It is It makes a difference. Last two were that way, for sure. Uh three, cuz it was my Gladiator, the 4Runner, and the Tacoma. All of them. And they all had 5,000-mi oil changes, and it mattered. So, uh that's important to me. Now, the oil thing.

[00:10:42]Here's the thing. So, the standard output is using 0W20, okay? Or as I like to call it 0W20.

[00:10:50]People are like, "It's not a zero. It's zero." Point being, 0W20 for standard output.

[00:10:56]0W40 for the high output. They say it is because of the increased pressures and bearing loads. That's what they say. So, the standard output Hurricane gets 0W20.

[00:11:09]The high output, like you have in the RHO, which we have an RHO right behind it. You can see it over there. Kind of talked right over there. RHO right over there. Okay? The high output version, it has the uh 0W40.

[00:11:22]I wonder and I wouldn't do this because they're you know, without verifying it through an engineer, but I wonder if you could run 0W40 in your standard output and have it last a little bit longer since technically I believe it's pretty much the same engine as far as that stuff goes. Correct me if I'm wrong cuz I don't know if the oil journey channels and things like that are different or any of that kind of stuff or the oil pump or I I don't know, but it seems to me that if one if the high output version is running 0W-40, you could probably run 0W-40 in yours. I'm not saying do it. I'm not saying I recommend it, but I find it interesting. So, there you go. Questions, comments, or your thoughts on it? Let me know. Me, Hurricane wins for me all day long. I have said it before and I will say it again. I bet you in 5 years from now 5 years from now people will look at this motor and it will be the bar that is set that every other full-size truck engine has to aspire to beat or get to. K, people will be like, "Oh my god, this thing is so great. It's going to This is the They're going to be as good as the Hurricane." K, that's how I feel. I feel that this engine will be the one that all others are judged by. My opinion, maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong. We don't know. We won't know till time is there. But, that's my thoughts. Let me know yours. Thanks for watching.