Don't know to what extent but word it he blew it up on the final day of drag week. Anyone confirm or deny this? Did he get a 9 before it let go?

 

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I think the truck made a hell of an effort. Damn thing ran hard in a tough event. Those "Real Street Car" events can be murder on cars.

 

Thats sounds like a fun week to me. You should have seen how excited we were when we seen Jim's truck at Martain Friday. We were there racing a bagged 98 Chevy fullsize with a PRocharger. We got out of the truck at the gate and did a look around at the blue machine. Very nice I must say. Good job on the 1st Jim.

 

There were no 9's, he thinks he blew a head gasket though. but overall i think he did a great job!

 

yep, we made the entire drive and got it put in the garage at 6am this morning. It was an interesting trip.

Tuesday we broke a wheel stud

Wednesday we broke another wheel stud(cheap chrome lug nuts)

Thursday it was running warm towards the end of the day at the track

Friday it got warm after just a couple of runs and would not cool down for nothing, we got the win locked in and they made last call so i went ahead and turned it up and ran it one more time. it didn't run any faster and overheated big time. i thought i spit out a head gasket. after it cooled down we added some coolant and it seemed OK other than it was running warm. it turned out it was just an electric fan issue.

we drive to Chicago on Friday night and hung out with my tranny guy Chuck from finish line transmission he was really cool and has a very nice shop. you could eat off of his floor and his tranny dyno is neat. we left there about 4pm on Saturday. a couple of hours outside of town scotts black dodge truck broke down, he had a bad alternator. the idea was he would tow me home if i broke down but it turned out i had to help get his truck running, we found an alternator and i gave him a jump and we got back on the road.

we stopped in desmoines about midnight and found a couple of street races then got back on the road at 2am or so. about 60 miles from home i had to sleep so Kyle was going to drive. he asked if he could light up the tires and i told him it was his ticket. he got on it and about 20 feet out the boost came on and there was a BIG BOOM. the rear let go!!! all those miles and beating the hell out of it and the rear finally let go. The drive shaft was spinning and the tires were not, there was a little grinding sound.

We decided to try 4wd and limp it home. We kept it under 60mph and were getting closer to home, we knew it could let go or lock up at anytime. about 5 miles from home it really came apart in there. Chunking, grinding, clanking, poping..... we drove 5mph or so from that point on and just stayed on the shoulder took awhile to make that last five miles but we made it home on our own power.

what a great week!!

 

Sad to hear she's down, but good job overall!!

 

One of the Reasons why rarely anybody drive mine but me. The truck gets so angry with me I spend next hour, just consoling her.

Time for a GM 9 1/2 rear end?? or molser 12bolt?? or a certain ford product

Go overkill with a strange super 60??

 

I think it will end up being just a gov lock. the 8.5" would be just fine beefed up in his. The GN guys go 8's with that rear, and not to metion he is putting some power to the front.

 

ABOUT TIME that rear end went... but you still cant say YOU exploded a 10Bolt hah IDK maybe im sick but I always have a smile after a truck blows a rear it sucks because of the work but when I pull the cover and its distroided I always get a laugh