i'll take a "government motors" rig over the "mexican motors" p-stroke any day. the duramax is a joint venture between gm and isuzu not an isuzu jap motor crammed into a chevy like most under edumacated furd owners think. the rough castings of the crank, cam etc. come from isuzu but they are machined and built right here in the u.s. of a not like the p-stroke which from my understanding is built in mexico. RCR3 is the first person i've ever heard, including die hard ford guys, that have ever claimed the 6.0 was in any way better than the 7.3 powerstroke. every ford guy i've ever met will happily admit that the 6.0 was one of if not the worst diesel engine put in a pickup. a far as the EGR causing all the problems because of to much backpressure for the vvt turbo, in 04.5 gm used the exact same turbo(with an added sensor) in the lly with an egr and cooler but you dont hear of turbo failures on the lly like you do on the 6.0 powerchoke. and then there was the bright idea to run only 4 head bolts per cylinder on a high compression diesel engine in the 6.0, but i guess that had nothing to do with the problems of the 6.0 either. i mean hell my 5 hp briggs n' stratton on my push mower even has 6 head bolts. say whatever you want, but there is a reason that the dmax/allison is the most proven and reliable diesel pickup on the market today and there must be a reason that GM is the #1 selling automaker in the world.
