Hi Michael

An FYI that you might use while shopping for a MotorHome: I have a "rule of thumb" that I should have 10 HP for every 1000lbs of weight I want to move, including my tow vehicle.

My coach weighs ~36K lbs, my Cherokee tow weighs ~3600 lbs. My engine is rated at 425 HP giving me a pretty good horsepower to weight margin.

I was in a situation once where my coach was considerably underpowered. Couldn't wait to get rid of it (early pusher days). In a situation like that a person could really *hate* his/her coach.

Just food for thought to use as you wish.

Hello a update noted in a forum reply about poor mileage and performance the unit I am looking at has been updated with a extra air inlet scoop on right side of coach at back to supply more air to the engine an modifation was done on the coach with pictures supplied from ther selling dealer and also a update performance muffler as I have not seen the coach as of yet. But nice to know that that performance issue were fixed. It very hard to buy something without seening it first hand so with the help of many on here we are slowly peeling back the unknown. I also got from seller dealer  the Cat engine ser.# and though work I have all Cat records as well. The turbos were change out early in life for poor performance then the mod were done to increase air intake so with with everything I have known I am excited to view coach in person Feb 21th. It sure pays off to come into here for advise and so I helpfully can join you all as a new member of the Beaver Club.