First time out with my 5.3 forged setup
Dec 19, 2012 | 11:29 PM
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First time out with my 5.3 forged setup
Finally got to finish my truck up after several months in the making. Setup consist of NA setup with aluminum 5.3 forged, RK custom cam, RK STG 3 243's, Holley's new ram intake, morel lifters, 72# injectors, nick Williams 102mm fly by wire TB, pacesetter long tubes with Y pipe, circle D 5000 Multi disc stall, JR built 4L65E with T-break, 4.56 gears, 29.5x13.5 Mickey Thompson tires, 4 link, qa1's all around. First time out it ran a 11.23 @ 118 MPH with a 1.53 60's. will be changing exhaust and gears out and going for a 10 sec pass. Here is the video of the run. Enjoy.
Here is a picture of the engine bay.
Truck launching
Video of 11.23 run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY7b...e_gdata_player
Here is a picture of the engine bay.
Truck launching
Video of 11.23 run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY7b...e_gdata_player
Last edited by RoadKill03; Dec 19, 2012 at 11:34 PM.
Dec 19, 2012 | 11:53 PM
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Thanks
Thanks. No I haven't had a chance to weigh the truck but planning on doing so next time out at the track. Hopefully they fixed the damn scale by then. Truck still has AC and full interior other than the racing seats I installed. Haven't taken any weigh off of it other than the leaf springs when I went to the 4 link. I also installed wilwood 4 piston caliper break system all around as well. I'm estimating around 4000-4200 with me in it. Truck dyno to the wheels 480 Hp and 398 TQ on our loaded mustang dyno. I stopped the pull right at 7600 and power was still going up
Thanks. No I haven't had a chance to weigh the truck but planning on doing so next time out at the track. Hopefully they fixed the damn scale by then. Truck still has AC and full interior other than the racing seats I installed. Haven't taken any weigh off of it other than the leaf springs when I went to the 4 link. I also installed wilwood 4 piston caliper break system all around as well. I'm estimating around 4000-4200 with me in it. Truck dyno to the wheels 480 Hp and 398 TQ on our loaded mustang dyno. I stopped the pull right at 7600 and power was still going up
Dec 20, 2012 | 12:18 AM
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Running a pretty big cam 247/255 with .700 lift. Compression is at 12.3:1 so with this cam and the head setup combined with that intake runner size it will make crazy power up top. I'm shifting 1st to sec at 7800 and will be going up to 8000. She pulls like a bat out of hell up top. Once done playing with this 5.3 I will be building a 6.0 with similar topend to see how much I can get out of it. I'm sure with this 5.3 I can go 10.80's no problem.
