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.

 

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!

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

Ryan

 

Hey Rich of corse you won it was a Ford . Try to do that to my 24v cummins . 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

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

 

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

 

HO LY ****!!

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 , AC that died a few thousand miles ago , a few hundred lbs really heavy duty roof rack, and a tool box with probly 200 lbs of tools in it.

 

Ricers . Nice kill with that big rig though

Rich Krause