JeffBoyette
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Took the truck to the track friday night. Debated on whether or not to post. I was a little taken back by the times. I made a handful of passes. Beat 2 cobras, a corvette and a Mustang GT. The cobras were the closest, beat the driver not the car, cutting .4-.45 better reaction times than those 2 rookies but only beating by a fender, getting walked past just after the finish line. My times were pretty consistant, 4 of them varying by 2-3 hundredths. The others i ignored the light and tried to dial in the launch rpm and twice, third gear disappeared.
.009 RT
2.22 60 ft
9.33 1/8 ET
75.37 Mph
In my defense, the night showed some pretty weak times i thought for the vehicles running, but i didnt ask anyone how they were doing. I arrived at 930 pm. It was HOT, and humid. Dew was starting to form on the bed of my truck so i bet the track was a little damp ouside the groove. I ran stock tire pressure, 22, 19.5 and 18 psi. The truck spun rediculously off the line anything above 1800 RPM. Anything less it bogged and felt pig rich, growling hard off the line, but not pulling till it hit 4000 rpm. Second and third gear felt flat with a couple barely distinguishable bumps in power.
I loaded Torries 93 octane tune, and swapped the stock tune, back and forth twice within 45 minutes and the times were identical.
I raced my last truck 74 passes. I know how to drive it, and im comfortable and used to my new one. The short rolling burnouts to get the water off the street tires resulted in hard kicks to the left and right. Pretty unpredictable sometimes shaking the truck violently side to side. Caltracs seemed to be out of adjustment but i had no wrenches.
All 74 passes in my 05 were logged on a spreadsheet with the temperatures. I averaged 90.1 mph in it with 8.42 et. With a best of 1.79 60 ft and a 8.01 (planets aligned). I get these 06's are heavier on the 2500 frame, and the bed cover plus it still had the spare tire under it... and Im also seeing other RC's putting down 9.2-9.4. Its sad though, when i used to see guys posts those times, i would think to myself "That fucker cant drive"
Ive got 34k miles on the stock plugs and O2. I will be swapping these out, and doing the IAT resistor mod to see if it fixes the heat sink issue. I will get catless mids to replace the bellanger HFC. Take it to a dyno and take its vitals. Dialing in these caltracs, maybe removing the spare tire may help me a little on these times. I dont intend on racing this truck like i did the last. I just wanted to see what it would do. Without serious dough, i dont think this truck will be as fast as my 05, but its sure looks a hell of alot sexier. This could be one of the retarded cam 06's but im with Geodriller in saying $5,000 is a little much to figure out if it is. It still beat some rivals, and looked damn good doing it.
.009 RT
2.22 60 ft
9.33 1/8 ET
75.37 Mph
In my defense, the night showed some pretty weak times i thought for the vehicles running, but i didnt ask anyone how they were doing. I arrived at 930 pm. It was HOT, and humid. Dew was starting to form on the bed of my truck so i bet the track was a little damp ouside the groove. I ran stock tire pressure, 22, 19.5 and 18 psi. The truck spun rediculously off the line anything above 1800 RPM. Anything less it bogged and felt pig rich, growling hard off the line, but not pulling till it hit 4000 rpm. Second and third gear felt flat with a couple barely distinguishable bumps in power.
I loaded Torries 93 octane tune, and swapped the stock tune, back and forth twice within 45 minutes and the times were identical.
I raced my last truck 74 passes. I know how to drive it, and im comfortable and used to my new one. The short rolling burnouts to get the water off the street tires resulted in hard kicks to the left and right. Pretty unpredictable sometimes shaking the truck violently side to side. Caltracs seemed to be out of adjustment but i had no wrenches.
All 74 passes in my 05 were logged on a spreadsheet with the temperatures. I averaged 90.1 mph in it with 8.42 et. With a best of 1.79 60 ft and a 8.01 (planets aligned). I get these 06's are heavier on the 2500 frame, and the bed cover plus it still had the spare tire under it... and Im also seeing other RC's putting down 9.2-9.4. Its sad though, when i used to see guys posts those times, i would think to myself "That fucker cant drive"
Ive got 34k miles on the stock plugs and O2. I will be swapping these out, and doing the IAT resistor mod to see if it fixes the heat sink issue. I will get catless mids to replace the bellanger HFC. Take it to a dyno and take its vitals. Dialing in these caltracs, maybe removing the spare tire may help me a little on these times. I dont intend on racing this truck like i did the last. I just wanted to see what it would do. Without serious dough, i dont think this truck will be as fast as my 05, but its sure looks a hell of alot sexier. This could be one of the retarded cam 06's but im with Geodriller in saying $5,000 is a little much to figure out if it is. It still beat some rivals, and looked damn good doing it.
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