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Some people are wound more than a little tight right now and have lost a lot/everything.

I haven't watched the news for years as it is way too heavily biased for me.
If there is a nuclear war, I'm sure I'll notice the bright light on the horizon.

As far the guy in question I'm sure there is more to the story (isn't there always?)...
 
rottenronnie said:
Not in Calgary but 3000 miles east of us.
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A Denturist (wealthy) from Nova Scotia. Planned. Who was he targeting and why? Yes Ronnie there will be more to this....but we will only hear about it if it fits the media agenda
Nothing happens by chance.
I was just walking along and my gun just went off....oops!
 
rottenronnie said:
Love that NZ sense of humour!
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Yeah We are bit different at times. Please don't ever take offense at anything I say.....sometimes things get lost in translation....there are surprising differences between our 3 english speaking countries. Slang, meanings of words, sentence structure, culture etc and yes values too. When we were driving trucks in the USA back in 2001 we learnt quite a lot and liked watching people. Interesting the changes from state to state. You could almost tell if "your not from around these parts" Good times....I miss them
Didn't get much time in Canada tho. Only some of Ontario. Managed to get to the Air Force Museum and R & M Cars
 
This is a bit embarrassing. I just dragged my air comp out and checked tyre pressures. 28-30 psi all round hahaha
I pumped them up to 40 that should be heaps better lol
No wonder it had good traction. Should roll better now/less drag
 
AMS3 said:
Get ready for more gun laws in Canada due to that fool...
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Guns don't kill people, people kill people
They took guns away in Australia.
Murderers now use axes, knives, hammers etc. Maybe we should ban those too.
How silly would they sound. Ban axes they kill people. Ban knives they kill people.
Hang on I need to split my firewood oops. I want to butter my toast oops
 
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Kiwi SRT10 said:
Guns don't kill people, people kill people
They took guns away in Australia.
Murderers now use axes, knives, hammers etc. Maybe we should ban those too.
How silly would they sound. Ban axes they kill people. Ban knives they kill people.
Hang on I need to split my firewood oops. I want to butter my toast oops
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Yep, you are spot on. Now try to make a liberal understand, it's like trying to teach a seal to sing...
 
That's why pot is legal in Canada now: The Federal government can make sweeping changes when they're high without being accountable for them. :)

Thank Christ the Liberals no longer have a majority government.

It's interesting to watch who gets major breaks and why. For example:

  • Cement is the source of a whopping 8 percent of the world's CO2 emissions (who knew?), yet a large French-Canadian concrete company was given Federal grants and a green-light to build a huge plant in Eastern Canada. (Eastern Canada has the voting population numbers).

  • Alberta's oil-patch was decimated under the guise of "saving the planet" yet we produce LESS THAN TWO percent of the world's CO2 emissions and continue to buy overseas oil.

Kiwi: No offense taken on comments. It's a public forum and we're drifting away from truck stuff but the current and unprecedented world-wide issue can make us tend to veer off course. We get to learn interesting things about the members here for the first time, ever.

SRT-10 questions still get answered and info gets exchanged.
 
Kiwi:
As far as your horsepower numbers go... Generally:
Ported throttle bodies are good for 10-15 horsepower. U/D pullies are 8-10. Headers are all over the place. B&B claims a whopping 50 hp but in any dyno tests I've been at, it is considerably less, even with head and camshaft changes. BTW Trucks exhaust manifolds are better than the Viper cars. Headers work on reversion which is something the manifolds can't do. With a high overlap cam, LT headers can work their magic.
Tunes in the QC create a big boost in mid-range torque but don't increase peak torque. "Some" horsepower increases through tuning in both RC and QC (20 maybe) . Cold air kits aren't cold air kits when they draw under hood air. A drop-in k&n filter works well and/or the kits that provide outside air.

Hope some of this helps.
 
Kiwi: Keep enjoying your truck whether it makes for horsepower- 575, 600, 611.5 + or whatever it is, as I'm sure you will. If you get it to a 1/4 mile track and get some mph numbers, it is easy to calculate.

That great big gulp of sea-level air is good for at least 10% over, say where I am. Factoring Density-Altitude (a big one) into the equation and that 3.5% loss per thousand feet gets even worse.

The Colorado guys are hit even harder when they are having a "Bad Air Day".

Most NA engines will drop 3.5% of their total horsepower based on tests by Champion and others for every 1000 feet they climb.

Turbo and Supercharged engines also drop power at altitude, just not as much.
And larger engines "suffer" more than smaller ones which is understandable as there is less swept area to fill.
 
rottenronnie said:
Kiwi: Keep enjoying your truck whether it makes for horsepower- 575, 600, 611.5 + or whatever it is, as I'm sure you will. If you get it to a 1/4 mile track and get some mph numbers, it is easy to calculate.

That great big gulp of sea-level air is good for at least 10% over, say where I am. Factoring Density-Altitude (a big one) into the equation and that 3.5% loss per thousand feet gets even worse.

The Colorado guys are hit even harder when they are having a "Bad Air Day".

Most NA engines will drop 3.5% of their total horsepower based on tests by Champion and others for every 1000 feet they climb.

Turbo and Supercharged engines also drop power at altitude, just not as much.
And larger engines "suffer" more than smaller ones which is understandable as there is less swept area to fill.
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Always a wealth of knowledge, thanks for the info!!!
 
rottenronnie said:
Kiwi:
As far as your horsepower numbers go... Generally:
Ported throttle bodies are good for 10-15 horsepower. U/D pullies are 8-10. Headers are all over the place. B&B claims a whopping 50 hp but in any dyno tests I've been at, it is considerably less, even with head and camshaft changes. BTW Trucks exhaust manifolds are better than the Viper cars. Headers work on reversion which is something the manifolds can't do. With a high overlap cam, LT headers can work their magic.
Tunes in the QC create a big boost in mid-range torque but don't increase peak torque. "Some" horsepower increases through tuning in both RC and QC (20 maybe) . Cold air kits aren't cold air kits when they draw under hood air. A drop-in k&n filter works well and/or the kits that provide outside air.

Hope some of this helps.
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Fantastic info, really appreciate your vast knowledge. If I take all the manufacturers claims I have exactly 5700 hp and can do 100 mph before I push the start button hahaha
For me it's an integrity issue, someone put a 600 hp badge on it, so it needs to be. Or close. Don't get me wrong I would rather have 600 but if nowhere near it then I will take the badge off
I think I have found why it is hard to get out of gear at WOT. It seems the thrust bearing is being pushed away from pressure plate at high revs. Only half a pedal
 
An upgraded hydraulic "kit" and/or better shifter will help with your wot gear changes. Maybe someone with a 6-spd. can chime in with what they prefer.

Get yourself an underdrive-pulley and you'll be close to your HP goal. I'm not sure if it will reach 100 mph before to hit the magic red button but it will be close. :)
 
Well, I don't know about "Vast Knowledge", but thanks.

I typed "Headers work on Reversion".
No They Don't!!! o_O TYPO alert!!!


In a nutshell: The exhaust pulse leaves the cylinder, past the exhaust valve, out the exhaust port and travels down the primary header pipe. When that pulse hits the Header's Collector, something called RAREFACTION occurs and a reverse pulse bounces back towards the cylinder. If the size of the primary pipe is correct (particularly not too big), the pulse will arrive right on time to block fresh fuel from leaving the cylinder during overlap (when the piston is chasing the exhaust valve closed and the Intake Valve is opening to let in another gulp of fresh air and new fuel has entered/is entering the cylinder) via the injectors. Of course we want to keep as much of the combustible air-fuel mix inside the cylinder.

Sidebar: At low rpm (idle), valve overlap (both valves are open) there isn't yet enough rpm/inertia to allow intake air to fully enter the cylinder without some being pushed backwards into the intake manifold creating the rough-idle "sound" a bigger cam is known for.


I hope this heinous mistake hasn't ruined your day and please accept my deepest apology.
I will refund your money, in full, at my earliest convenience.
 
rottenronnie said:
Well, I don't know about "Vast Knowledge", but thanks.

I typed "Headers work on Reversion".
No They Don't!!! o_O TYPO alert!!!


In a nutshell: The exhaust pulse leaves the cylinder, past the exhaust valve, out the exhaust port and travels down the primary header pipe. When that pulse hits the Header's Collector, something called RAREFACTION occurs and a reverse pulse bounces back towards the cylinder. If the size of the primary pipe is correct (particularly not too big), the pulse will arrive right on time to block fresh fuel from leaving the cylinder during overlap (when the piston is chasing the exhaust valve closed and the Intake Valve is opening to let in another gulp of fresh air and new fuel has entered/is entering the cylinder) via the injectors. Of course we want to keep as much of the combustible air-fuel mix inside the cylinder.

Sidebar: At low rpm (idle), valve overlap (both valves are open) there isn't yet enough rpm/inertia to allow intake air to fully enter the cylinder without some being pushed backwards into the intake manifold creating the rough-idle "sound" a bigger cam is known for.


I hope this heinous mistake hasn't ruined your day and please accept my deepest apology.
I will refund your money, in full, at my earliest convenience.
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Wow you did it again
I only know basic physics and use that in my quest for speed/efficiency. It has done me good so far, but real science is better.
 
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