The reason is probably just a marketing thing. RV manufacturers would need to tack $10k+ onto an RV for it to have the diesel powertrain, and at that point they want to be pushing buyers up into diesel pushers.
Years ago I spoke to these guys. Brazils is the shop name. They do computer tuning like a Banks kit, but they were all about the Chevy 8.1 along with Workhorse chassis improvements.
Agree, the factory front “sway bar” is a joke. The Kodiak trucks use the same thing. I put a front track bar and sway bar and it made a noticeable improvement in handling and steering response
Congrats, that's a nice rig...the colors are cooler then allot of the dark stuff....but it will look really clean in the dunes.
Those are GREAT colors. As I've posted before my Dutch Star was mostly black (and I PC'ed the wheels black, etc.) which looked gangster AF, but how we all use our RVs it's a terrible idea. Those are the perfect colors for a desert person.
Same... the discovery was black, grey silver etc... which is the color I like all my stuff to be lol. It is growing on me for sure, and definitely more practical for being in the desert... but am I just thinking this way because I'm getting old lol... ahhhh haha.
I love my W22 too! I definitely read up on improving the ride and mine actually already had a rear supersteer trac bar installed. I then added the front Roadmaster Tru-Trac up front and went Koni shocks all the way around. Night and day! No more getting pushed around by the big rigs or road wander by grooves etc. Very solid. My next mission is to figure out my A/C in the cockpit as it sometimes decides to take a break. I was reading a simple $8 napa shutoff valve at the heater core would fix it. Something about the heater still circulating hot coolant through the heater core when the A/C is on. Shutoff the valve and supposedly the warm air stays out.
What year, make and model? That’s a great looking rig! Very interested to hear how it tows your stacker. I’m in the market currently and looking for something similar and also plan to get a stacker.
One thing I forgot to point out earlier: I love how they carried the paint scheme onto the sides of the slides. Our DS and our MA were/are like that, but I've seen other coaches at way too high of a price point not do that.
Thanks you! It's a 2011 American Coach American Revolution 42.
Yeah I love when they do that.... American coach does it on all their models... but yeah my old discovery was just solid colors on the slides.
You'll be good with the 450, it looks like your coach has a GVWR of 44,600 which means it's prob in the mid-30ks by itself, and probably come in around 45 combined w/ the stacker. My Dutch Star had a 450/1250 ISL but it weighed around 40k by itself, and 52k+ with the stacker:
How are you getting the "dry weight" numbers? I was always under the assumption that the manufacturers rated these things to where GVWR was pretty much what you were at, once you filled up tanks, water, put a few kids inside with your stuff for the weekend?
I was just guessing, TBH. I found a 2011 American Coach Revolution brochure: https://www.rvroundtable.com/wp-content/uploads/American Coach/American-Revolution/2011.AmericanRevolutionBrochure.pdf which is why I found the 44,600 GVWR. However, it doesn't list an Unloaded Vehicle Weigh (UVW). I'm guessing at a ~10k CCC on a coach like that, so "mid 30s" curb/UVW (not dry) weight would be my guess. Other ones have UVW, here's the brochure for my MA: https://library.rvusa.com/brochure/2019_Newmar_Mountain Aire.pdf and it shows an approximate UVW:
