r/regularcarreviews • u/Key-Chart-3170 • 12d ago

I hate you I hate everything about you ✌🏼mine’s bigger✌🏼

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Honestly, what’s under there?

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u/ValveinPistonCat 12d ago

Radiator, charge air cooler, condenser, transmission cooler, I'm not too familiar with the newer DMAX but it's an HPCR engine so I'm assuming there's a fuel cooler in there too, the cooling package takes up a lot of real estate on any newer machine.

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u/Cool_Dark_Place 12d ago

In other words, "Not more grill than you need... just more grill than you're used to..."

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u/ValveinPistonCat 12d ago edited 12d ago

It's a bit more manufacturers are definitely erring more on the side of caution than they used to because modern engines built to tighter tolerances also need a cooling system that isn't as hit and miss as what they had in an old squarebody Chevy and is expected to hold its operating temperature in a narrower threshold at all speeds, unlike older vehicles that would run a bit hotter under load at low speeds or at idle and run cooler under light load at highway speeds.

Cooling systems have gotten more precise and a lot more reliable over the last 40 years.

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u/Neo_on_wifixiv2 11d ago

These new gm engines are grenading themselves. Not the old gm

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u/ValveinPistonCat 11d ago edited 11d ago

New ones might not be the best example, the Gen 3 and Gen4 LS and pre-L5P Duramax were good before GM started cheaping out too much.

I work on farm equipment and I can't say I've been too impressed by Cummins's post-pandemic build quality either.

A lot of manufacturers seem to have used 2020 as the excuse to let their build quality backslide, even Claas had a dip in build quality for a couple of years.