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Default RE: Newb looking to buy first MT - lots of q's???

ORIGINAL: raykessler


Savage is stronger out of the box, but the mammoth is MUCH faster. to break a savage you would have to take a large hammer and bash it for a while, but for it to out run a mammoth you would have to get the new RB .28 engine... that MIGHT do the trick... if you dont turn your dirve train into mush

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All this "Mammoth is faster" talk is a bunch of smoke and mirrors!!! There are three factors that ALL trucks must balance when talking speed: power, gearing and weight. You can, within reason, adjust those in any ways you want, on any TRUCK you want to get whatever performance you want!!!

XTM has a good engine, but not markedly more powerful than NUMEROUS other engines that can be strapped on to any trucks (you can put the XTM 2.47 into a Savage!!). The RB will smoke it, and of course, you can strap one of THOSE into your Mammoth if you want.

The Mammoth is super fast, but not super quick, as it's still one of the heavier trucks out there. All they did was GEAR it for speed, something you can do to ANY truck.

I LIKE the Mammoth, but XTM did not rewrite the laws of physics to make it go 52 mph!!! They compromised other performance aspects in order to have a truck that fast, plain & simple.

Dean