First of all I ahve just got the 418 running and I want something more already It has so much torque its not even funny almost too much cause I cant hook in 4hi on the street and thats the main thing I built it for. Tracj numbers are cool but I built it to beat up on **** on the street. An 80e is on its way SOON Im going to keep the stock first gear ratio due to my traction problems but go up to a 3600-3800 stall. Im thinking right now of going to a solid roller cam with something like these specs 248/253 .648 .652 113lsa and pull my heads and put a set of ET 250cc fully competition ported heads on it and try and spin teh bitch to 7600 or so or wherever it makes power till. I want to stay N/A just for the hell of it basically everyone puts a turbo on their ****. I like nitrous ALOT it is instant but the bottles such I will drop a turbo on it eventually I want the N/A extended cab record first before I do it. I just dont know what to do I got word today that my new job wen through for sure so I now I ahve a company truck so this will be a date mobile or to go cruising basically I also ahve a bike. Mileage is not a consideration at this point I may go ahead and pull the motor back out in a couple of months and bore it a bit bigger I am having some oil consumption problems and the only thing it can be is one of those damn POS JE rings that i broke when filling one I can use the pistons I have now for a later project in a 00 rcsb s-10 with a little turbo. Just wonderin what some of my fellow southerners thoughts are on what I should do. It will take me till the end of the summer to get the money together to do anything major after the 80e swap thats going to kill my tax return check right there plus I got ALOT of bills now Im happy with how the truck performs right now Im getting Allen Nelson to tune it sometime this week and get it perfect but after that I dont know what to do. I need to take some of the low end power out of this thing and the only way I know how to do it is with a larger cam. Any suggestions are welcome

 

just baby it off the line. welcome to the world of 2wd owners! imagine trying to launch that truck in 2wd

 

Thats why i bought a 4wd for street racing cause I thought I would always ahve traction

Im going to get cal-tracs, stickier tires(toyos Ill be letting you know when I need a hook up shortly), lowering it, front suspension limiters, rear sway bar(dont know it will help but got a good deal on it and it will make it handle better), and QA1s. Hopefully all that will go a long ways toward making the whole setup hook better.

 

F-it... get rid of the SB and find you a solid buildable 8.1 and bore and stroke it out to about 550ci.... I dunno...just a thought. LOL...

 

maybe you need to look into street slicks instead of toyos. the longer i have the toyos the more i think twice about them. they hook great on the track but the wet traction is horible. i slide all over the place while babying it and im nowhere near as powerfull as alot of the guys here.

 

No BB for me. I would consider it I actually know someone with a fried 8.1 hmmmmm

I want to mess with the 6L block I know alot about the LS1 block and NOTHING about the new BB.

I got a friend with scsb V6 that will be getting rid of it for cheap in about a year I may get it and make that my project but I dont know.

Im just talking about what to do with the motor I currently have I dont mind buying new pistons and as far as I know I have the longest stroke avalaible and I ahve forged rods so I know Im going to keep the crank and rods. Swapping a motor out and building it isnt a big deal now that I have a company truck to drive. Just wondering wht to so. I know for sure Im going to a solid roller cam that is atleast 10*s larger and probably .05 larger on the lift. I honestly want the most radical N/A setup out of anyone on any board and that I know of in person. The cam that have right now on basically a mail order tune aint **** I could drive something alot larger if I had to. I like the idea of a 434 with a 248/253 .648 .652 113lsa cam, SSR 90mm intake, undecide on which 90mm tb to go with, ET 250cc intake runner heads fully ported to the max and about 11.3:1CR or maybe a few tenths higher on 93 octane. I want 550rwhp N/A now someone has done 500rwhp na on a truck I want the baddest N/A **** in truck I am spending alot of money and I want some kind of cool title to go along with it.

 

Stewart this truck will no longer see rain and all that, like I said I have a company truck now and my bike, and a roomates truck so the Z will only be driven when I want to drive it. How do they hook on the track. Since this truck is going to see so little street action anymore I may go to drag radials I dont know just yet.

Any suggestions are welcome I jsut at he point have no idea what the next step is to do except get a built 80e behind it and "be happy with what you got" is not an option I am thoroughly infected with teh speed bug. I want to make it into the 10s without FI and on a 250 shot. Major weight reduction will be done but it will bedone in a ecsb Z71

 

There must be some way to get it to hook on the street. In Parish's videos I've never noticed him having too hard of a time hooking on the street, maybe I wasn't paying attention though?

 

He is spinning all four I promise no way around it. The front suspension limiters help alot. I want something to dead hook from a dig and haul ***. The suspension modifications will go a long ways to helping the traction issue. The problem I have is Im spraying nitrous and it comes in alot quicker than turbo boost does. Time to start reseaching progressive controllers

 

Just work on dialing in your suspension to maximize traction, then when more power is wanted or needed slap a turbo on there(with a head change for compression). When that time comes I'll be happy to give you a hand fabbing a system for ya.