Lets bring some clarity to those who pay attention to only "certain"
things.
Nasty girl was built as a daily driver and is used for just that! Since my last build I put on 20,000 miles driving her every day on the big tune. And don't think for one minuete that she was babied! And thats not holding up? Show me how many daily driver 1000+ HP trucks out there have over 20,000 miles on them at that level? I am willing to bet you can count them on one hand. I know of 2 myself, Richards (Maddog) and mine. I have made four 1000 to 1500+ mile trips this year with Nasty without 1 issue!
Now for those of you who claim to but have no clue about the big HP game I will fill you in on what you don't know. A 1000+ HP engine is not going to have the longevity of a 400-500 HP engine which is most common these days with those of us with BOMBed trucks. What you don't hear except with some of us who share our do's and don't, is all the failures out there. When I have a failure of any nature I share it with the diesel community to further educate all of us. I do that because I have no hidden agendas nor am I in the competetive game that 99% of the big HP guys are in. Do you seriously think that you hear about more than 10% of the failures? ROTFLMFAO........NOT!
The day of building a truck of this nature and expecting it to live for 100,000 miles will not happen in our lifetime, nor will a "reliable" truck of this nature ever happen.
If you would have done your homework you would have seen that Nasty Girl has done quite well considering the abuse she has taken, but thats why I built her. Not to be a dyno queen or trailer queen, but rather to drive her every day. Taking my son to school, gettin the groceries, taking my family camping, going on trips, etc etc etc. It has seen the drag strip a few times but thats not why I built it. If I was going to build a race truck it sure as hell wouldn't have been a crew cab! :hehe: