Got some plain steel 17 rims and street rubber and did a test and tune night at the local drag strip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1GG0-bLHs

Got some plain steel 17" rims and street rubber and did a test and tune night at the local drag strip

Ill fix the pics later... every other site I know of will re-size the images.. not sure why this one never does.

Hey Andy, thanks for the pics and video!
What kind of time did you run and did you run again?
What are the details on your tune?
Also, anybody ever hit a moose on that track? lol

Chebby

It's been years since I've been to the strip. Watching your video makes me want to go back so bad. I used to be there every Sunday as well as most Wednsday nights. Talk about an adrenaline rush. This was my old 'Bird. It would run consistant mid 11s, and back at the shop, we would sit around, crack a few beers and bench race into the wee hours. Good times!

Sweet video! Was that a 4wd launch?

CHEBBY wrote:Hey Andy, thanks for the pics and video!
What kind of time did you run and did you run again?
What are the details on your tune?
Also, anybody ever hit a moose on that track? lol

Chebby

Best run was 14.1, I just can't get the tires to hook. If you listen in the video they are spinning first and second and breaking loose in third. I am working on my throttle control but leaving at half throttle does shit for my 60'. I found lowering the tire pressure helped out a lot, going to try even lower next time.

The truck has a drop in K&N air filter, aftermarket exhaust which dumps behind the rear axle and a custom tune by a local guy up here. Truck has the 6.2L with max trailer package so 3.73 gears. I pulled the fuses that control the ABS before the race so there is absolutely no stabilitrack or traction control. My next mod is to replace just the pipping that goes from the air box to the intake. Also going to talk to my tuner and see if he can ease up the shift points maybe, maybe that will help with breaking loose in 2nd and 3rd gear. That or it's time to buy some drag radials. =)

And nope, as far as I know no one has hit a moose on the track.

OlSmokie wrote:It's been years since I've been to the strip. Watching your video makes me want to go back so bad. I used to be there every Sunday as well as most Wednsday nights. Talk about an adrenaline rush. This was my old 'Bird. It would run consistant mid 11s, and back at the shop, we would sit around, crack a few beers and bench race into the wee hours. Good times!

It's addicting. I spent roughly 400 on the trims and tires so I wouldn't thrash my stock setup. I want to get long tube headers and high flow cats. I think that with doing a tune off a wide band sensor will really wake her up.

starspangled6.0 wrote:Sweet video! Was that a 4wd launch?

I did one 4WD launch the whole night (out of about 14-15 runs). I really wasn't gaining much doing a 4WD launch. It left a little harder but I lost a lot on the top end, plus it's just really hard on lots of the components. If I can find a softer tire or a way to get more weight to the back tires and launch harder I will be good to go.

Really.. It has been one day and I can't edit my post??? Is our truck into that top secret it needs to be locked down so quickly???

Attached pics so you can see the whole thing.

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I thought about something like this, while I hate to add weight having that weight right over the rear axle might do more good than harm. Might have to try something like that out.