Killed a Ford F250 diesel with my Silverado

My daily driver is an '01 Silverado 1500 with 3.73's. The other night I lined up with an F250 at a light. He had some tools in the back and I wasn't paying much attention to him. There was a long straight stretch of road in front of us. I accelerated normally away from the light when it turned green. Then I heard a loud diesel clatter from the F250 and it surged past me emitting a noxious cloud. When I heard him punch it, I did the same. He gained ~1/2 truck length on me and then I started to pull on him. By the 1-2 shift we were even and I slowly began to pull away but I was thinking that "you can't beat the low end torque of a diesel" because it took me a bit to catch him and by then I had seen a pretty big load of tools in the back of his truck. As I pulled away and shut down, he did a flyby. At that point I remembered that I was towing my 1,800lb trailer! I had completely forgotten about it.

Pretty staisfying kill. We must have got up 60mph (in a 55mph zone - no hassles about street "racing" needed). Killed him towing a trailer, not too shabby!

Rich Krause

Good kill Rich.:)

Originally posted by joeSS97
Good kill Rich.:)

Thanks, I needed some positive reinforcement. This year, the car hasn't been out enough to notch up any "kills". Even at the track it's all been test 'n tune, I haven't really tried to cut a light even once.

So I have to take my "victories" where I can get them.

Rich Krause

Rich: sweet kill! :bow:

I have a mental picture of you in Dr's coat street racing your truck :D.

Ryan

Hey Rich of corse you won it was a Ford:p . Try to do that to my 24v cummins:p . Hope you get the car up and going soon.


Bill

Originally posted by 94SLUG
Hey Rich of corse you won it was a Ford:p . Try to do that to my 24v cummins:p . Hope you get the car up and going soon.


Bill

It finally has come together. Ran 10.22 @ 140mph last week. Full interior and emissions, no weight reduction other than removing the spare :D

I will pass on racing your Cummins. Who likes to lose?

Rich Krause

Originally posted by rskrause
It finally has come together. Ran 10.22 @ 140mph last week. Full interior and emissions, no weight reduction other than removing the spare :D

I will pass on racing your Cummins. Who likes to lose?

Rich Krause

Great Kill man!! I love it....I was about to say that it sounds like you really are missing your car until I saw the post above.

How much Boost and N20 are you running now Rich?
How much does the car now wiegh and How much HP is it putting down?
Finally, I know you said you only put like 5-6K miles on your car yearly but is it still streetable, what kinda gas mileage are you now getting?

Inquiring Minds want to know.
Thx,
Claude

Originally posted by 95 Silver TA
Great Kill man!! I love it....I was about to say that it sounds like you really are missing your car until I saw the post above.

How much Boost and N20 are you running now Rich?
How much does the car now wiegh and How much HP is it putting down?
Finally, I know you said you only put like 5-6K miles on your car yearly but is it still streetable, what kinda gas mileage are you now getting?

Inquiring Minds want to know.
Thx,
Claude

Claude: it is still very streetable. The only problem is that it runs hot, due to the partial block fill. I wouldn't want to drive it in stop and go traffic on a hot day - it would likely overheat. Is the block fill needed? Probably not. But this particular block is 0.040" over and I was worried about cylinder wall stability. I am building up a 0.010" over block for next year and will run it without any fill.

The 1:1 top gear has killed mileage. It currently gets ~9-10mpg in suburban driving and ~12mpg on the highway. I will be getting a GV OD for next year, mostly to cut down on noise and wear but better mileage will be a plus as well.

I last weighed it before the current round of mods. It was 3,850 then and should be at least 50-75lbs more now. It made 876rwhp with 17psi and a 200hp nitrous shot. That is through a 4,200 stall. It should run a 9.74 with those numbers, but I don't think the traction is there for that. The 10.22 run was with a rather pitiful 1.692 60' and for an instant my foot lifted when I hit second. The WOT switch is set to activate with the throttle absolutely buried, so I think I lost a tenth or so there. I'd guess a perfect run might net 9.9xx, but I don't want to get thrown off the track and they were already looking at me pretty closely.

Interestingly, one run was an accidental second gear start and it only ran about 1 sec slower and still went ~137mph. Those automatics are weird.

Rich Krause

:eek: :eek: HO:bow: :bow: LY :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: SH!T!!:metal: :metal:

Sounds like you have the power to run low 9s if you put her on a diet.
Do you plan to do any wiegth reduction or Plan to keep it as is with a Gear Vendor and still drive it sometimes on the street...Either way that you go, its still D@MN IMPRESSIVE!!
CONGRATS!!

Claude

not that it matters, but i saw a huge f350 lifted all that crap, with a tow hitch that said remove to tow ford, i cut him off :)

Edit: remove to tow chevy

lol probably doesnt belong here but i raced a few people in my 3500 ram cummins w/ a load lol

got myself a few ricers beat w/ over 4000lbs on the bed

When I bought my car it was totalled, While me and my dad were towing it home, some 80's honda rice boy was revving his trash next to us. So my dad punches it when it went green, and WHILE towing a 3000 LBS car, with a few hundred lbs of parts yanked off it in the bed, he beat the Yo dawg yo ricer by about 2 or 3 car lenths ... Technically 4 since there was a car being towed by my dads truck ...

Above was with a 2000 Dodge Ram Diesel, Extended Cab, loaded , leather, heated seats :D , AC that died a few thousand miles ago :rolleyes: , a few hundred lbs really heavy duty roof rack, and a tool box with probly 200 lbs of tools in it.

Originally posted by HardcoreRM125
When I bought my car it was totalled, While me and my dad were towing it home, some 80's honda rice boy was revving his trash next to us. So my dad punches it when it went green, and WHILE towing a 3000 LBS car, with a few hundred lbs of parts yanked off it in the bed, he beat the Yo dawg yo ricer by about 2 or 3 car lenths ... Technically 4 since there was a car being towed by my dads truck ...

Ricers :confused:. Nice kill with that big rig though :bow:

Rich Krause

my brother and i one time were towing a old carolla w/ our 89' F350 duely 460block some ricer reved, and we punched it, lol u should a seen the look at them when they saw the other car being towed as they got to see a good glimpse of both sets of tail lights...

u shoulda also seen the driver of the corollas face when we punched it, (it was just ropes, so he had to break the car when we slowed down)... lol whip lash

I wonder how a newer Silverado would do against my younger brothers 2003 F350 Turbo diesel. It actually has some umph for a truck.

)Truck Racing ... fun as hell

lol them 460's got some nuts to them. My dads last truck was a 96 F250 Supercab or whatever the extened cab with 2 door is called. Had a 460, with headers and duel flows, sounded mean, and was pretty damn fast for a truck, probly the fastest truck I've rode in ( Not that I ride in fast trucks alot though :rolleyes: )

I've got a buddy with a 2001 Duramax diesel. The only mod is a 4" exhaust. That thing will will smoke the tires from a start. We raced one day for the h*ll of it. First race I just floored it and smoked the tires and he shot off in 4wd. Took me a few seconds to catch him! The next race I actually launched and took him right off. That Allison transmission is a weird one though, it removes throttle right before it shifts. Even with the pedal floored it pulls throttle, shifts and floors it again.

On the highway one day we were cruising and he nailed it. That thing will get it on the highway! Very impressive for so large a vehicle. And it gets decent mileage!

Deisels are sweet ... My Dad's Ram gets good mileage too. Loaded to the bed rails going to and from our bear trip. It was a 1100 mile trip(one way) and we only stopped to fill up twice.

Filled when we left, Filled at the top of Maine, Made it from Maine to Nerepis, New Brunswick, Canada, and back to Bangor Maine, Filled there, Came back to PGH. Total was over a 2200 Mile trip. We had 200$ set aside, This was for food, gas, and a room for one night in Bangor. Room was $75, Food was probably about $35ish ( 3 guys fast food ) So Im guessing we spent between 75 ( Not including inital fill up, it was filled day before we left ) and 100$ in fuel for a 2200 mile trip in a fully loaded truck that weighed proably close to 9000 lbs ... Truck is 7600. His rack and tool box put it well over 8000, then with all our ****, and his one friend's stuff ... It was FULL. Just the say 8200lbs for rack and tools w/truck, and then 3 ppl would put it close to say 8700, so with all our stuff it was proably close to 9100 lbs ???

My brother-in-law owns a '03 Ford F-250 w/ 4x4, 4 doors and 8 ft bed. All black on black, very ferocious looking ! He says it pulls very hard and said it had 560 ft/lbs of torque! I didn't believe him so I looked up the specs on the Ford website. Found out it has 325 HP and 520 ft/lbs. I was surprised yet excited for him.
The truck still weighs ALOT so it can't be that quick in stock trim.

Anyone got 1/4 numbers on one?

I think one of the members here has a 13 second f-250 or F-350 diesal:eek: :eek: :bow: :bow:.

Originally posted by Steve Y
Stock those things are pretty slow. What do you have done to it?


forgot about this post. My truck has modified injector pump, bigger injector, 4inch pipe, and a diesel tecnologies programmer box thing?. Diesel power is so sweet, lets just say it blows my cars tq numbers out of the water. 28 psi of love:bow:


A couple pics on my web site if ya really care.

Haha, funny kill story, congrats!
I just killed an Escalade yesterday, 1st one in my 03 1500 5.3.