I decided to run the truck one more time and see if the water soaking hurt anything. I picked up some C16 on the way there and added 5ga to about 10ga of 91 octane I already had in the tank.

The weather was great and in the 60s most of the day so I knew times would be good if the motor was not hurt too bad.

I got to the track and weighed the beast in at 5100lbs (had over half a tank of gas and my subwoofers inside). So add me in and race weight = 5250lbs

With no adjustments ecept the race gas I went

1st run:

RT: .433
60': 2.14
1/8th:8.41 @ 87.55mph
1/4: 12.92 @ 108.7mph

2nd run:

RT: .090
60': 1.80
1/8th: 7.88 @ 87.5mph
1/4: 12.40@ 108.1mph

Crawled under the truck and turn up the boost by 1psi (hard to tell)

3rd run:

RT: .042
60': 1.85
1/8th: 7.87 @ 87.88mph
1/4: 12.33 @ 110.0mph

The first 2 passes were about 13psi due to the cold temps. When I turned up the boost for the 3rd run I only saw about 13.5-14psi through most of the run but as soon as I hit 3rd gear it hit almost 15psi and stuck there. Sad this is, the 60' was worse and I was bouncing off the rev limiter on my 2nd to 3rd gear change which hurt a little too.

At that point I felt I still had enough of a cushion to try to up the boost by half a pound and the temps were getting colder so i turn up the methanol for safety and was ready to try again but recieved a call from Rick @ Synergy who had just got a call from Rick Squires and I was told to shut it down and keep it in one piece. Guess there is something going on and I might need the truck to be in working order so I obeyed(sp?) and returned to the pits even though I know I could have went a little faster.

Overall I am VERY excited to finally see some decent #s. I guess the cooler temps and the race gas really did it's work. I can only imagine what I could have done had I used a wideband and some scanning software to make changes and try to max the thing out.

 

Just out of curioustiy why are they the one's to decide how far you push your truck ?

 

Mainly because there may be something in the works and I would need to truck in running order to do it. I don't wanna say anything else and jinx myself if it doesn't pan out. Know what i mean? LOL

Ohh and they didn't TELL me to do it.. They asked but gave me the reason so I was more than happy too. Besides, I really didn't wanna get gready and blow it up since I need it to move out of my house in the next few weeks.

 

your last 1/8th mile ET looks prety quick, is that a typo? it is nice to see an sts kit out there pushing it and geting some good ET's.

i am trying to compart your times to my times. there are a lot of diferences but it really looks like you are kicking ***. smaller motor, less boost, more wieght and your not all that much slower considering all of that. my best no nitrous ET is something like an 11.80 at 16psi.

is anyone else pushing the sts kit like you are?

 

Sounds good I was just being nosey lol those are some real impressive times though.

 

Thanks guys

Parish, sorry, the 1/8th time was a typo . I just got home and you know how excited you get when you get new times to post.

No one that I know of is pushing the kit just yet. I know of at least 3 trucks that are working on it. TurbochargedBerserker, Farmtruc, and BenKey will almost definately be much faster than me once they are through with their projects but so far I think I am alone.

I hate trying to compare my setup to yours because they are soo different yet I always end up doing just that and end up dissapointed but I think tonights runs really helped me figure out that I am actually doing ok for what I have and while it's nothing compared to your truck it's ok in it's own right I just wanna thank you for all your posts about your own exploits. It's helped myself and I'm sure alot of people in here in figuring out their combos.

Red, It's cool man. I guess in my original post I made it sound like they were telling me what to do. LOL

 

nice times!

 

Great times outa that 5.3!!! Keep it up. Cutting some good lights too. Think your going to see 11's before the motor gives?

 

With weather like tonight I bet I could get damned close. I was really tempted to try it tonight but decided not to. I really need to keep the truck running a lil longer. Before winter is up I am gonna try for an 11 if it holds together that long. With 1 cylinder at 140psi, 1 at 160psi and the rest at 185psi I'm not sure if it will. God damned water sucks! LOL

The crappy thing is. The tranny is messing it all up. I felt it slip on the 7.5psi launch on that last run so my 60' suffered. Then on all 3 runs it would bounce off the rev limiter for a sec before shifting. I don't have any scanning or tuning software to check to see if it was hitting the limiter on it's own or if it was the tranny slipping. I used to scan my runs then I could have data for my tuner to work with. After getting the turbo I am not even gonna try to touch the tuning myself.. LOL

 

VERY impressive! 110 is smokin'.

Curious, what happened on that first 60'?