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That is confusing, why is it (and this is what I'm deriving from this) that the more you modify your vechicle the slower it will go?
Project: Pale Hooker (The cheap build)
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So what it's saying is if I already had a turbo for example at that altitude and ran a 16.39, the altitude correction to sea level wouldn't be as much if I was NA at that high altitude since a turbo doesn't loose as much power at high altitude. Sorry if this doesn't make sense. I just got up. Lol
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So ive decided to go skinny tire in the front. Something like a 4.5in wheel. Its so damn difficult trying to find one though. I would use a spare wheel and put a drag skinny tire on it but our spares are full size.. Its so hard to find these damn things
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I did a thing today. I saw a post of the facebook page about someone who took a motorcycle battery and rigged it up to work with the truck. His reason was for weight reduction. That's exactly what I wanted to do so I'm glad someone did it. Well in the comments someone posted a lightweight battery on summit racing which weights 7lbs lighter than the motorcycle battery and 28.2lbs lighter than the factory battery. I went ahead and bought that. It was a little pricy but I figured the close to 30lbs of weight reduction will be worth it.
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Ill weigh it when I get back to the states lol.
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lightweight battery, never heard of that. What is the brand? What battery chemistry is it? Size difference? Like an AGM racing battery?
Bone stock reg cab 3.5 should be in the upper end of that range with driver in it, I'd think. Possibly a little over 3400. Take a seat out, spare tire out and the lightweight battery you are probably looking at low 3300s with driver. Go a little crazier and strip the inside visors, headliner, back wall, door panels, vinyl/carpet floor, and sound insulation and you can probably get down another 50-60lbs possibly more. I'm not sure how thick or heavy our sound insulation is. Swapping to the AEM intake probably saved me 5-10lbs over the stock thick plastic intake. Header vs cast iron manifold might save ~10lbs. Lightweight wheels would be a nice boost.
sorry I just started brainstorming lol.
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My title says my truck is 32xx and everywhere online says its 3303. Mine is a 2.9 reg cab with the manual. I weighed everything I took off one evening before I went to the drag strip.
I took out/off the passenger seat, floor-mats, spare tire kit, all the loose stuff in the cab, spare tire, spare tire hoist, front and rear anti-swaybars, tailgate, tailgate latch hinges, and tri-fold cover. All of that came out to 189.4 lbs. I also weighed the stock aluminum 15'' wheels last weekend when I was checking brakes. 17.4 lbs!
I'm wondering if I could get to sub 3300 w/driver. Bumpers would save a bit of weight. I probably wont but it would be pretty fun to make a reg cab as light as possible.
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Definitely would be cool to see how light one could get the truck. I'd remove weight from the front of the truck as much as possible but try to keep some weight in the rear for traction purposes.
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So, when I get to Louisiana I'm going to be SEVERE with the weight reduction. S.E.V.E.R.E. Its going to be crazy. Now, ill still want some things to look cool on it, or to keep some of the trim pieces on the truck so I went ahead and ordered a do it yourself carbon fiber kit so I can make the trim pieces in carbon fiber! well, at least the ones I want to keep lol.
The battery Justin, I got from summit racing. I forget the brand but I typed in light weight battery and it popped up. Someone made a thread on the facebook page about a installing a motorcycle battery and he got it to work, so I ordered a light weight motorcycle battery to save a few more pounds.
All this talk reminds me. I need to find someone to sell my Belltech front swaybar to.
The battery Justin, I got from summit racing. I forget the brand but I typed in light weight battery and it popped up. Someone made a thread on the facebook page about a installing a motorcycle battery and he got it to work, so I ordered a light weight motorcycle battery to save a few more pounds.
All this talk reminds me. I need to find someone to sell my Belltech front swaybar to.
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I totally agree. With the high altitude I'm at (and being a 4 cylinder) the traction is not a big concern. I was getting 2.3s 60ft on all terrain tires at normal psi with little to no spinning. I just don't think I have enough power up here to do much better. Having 7100-8500 DA isn't helpful for putting down good times. I'd probably be running high 14's/low 15s at sea level.
I'll probably leave a few things on when I have the turbo. I'll definitely need more traction for that.
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So, Ive bought a few more parts for the truck. I bought @Skizzo 's spare head and cams so I can get the head ported and the cams reground. That should be a big improvement in power. I also bought (because I was highly curious and it was relatively cheap) JTR's cold air intake tube. Its suppose to draw air from the front of the truck to the stock airbox. Well see how it goes with that. The last thing that I remember buying is an Xtreme gauge cluster. I really like the way that they look and I think it will add a nice touch.
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Its been a while since I updated this thread. Theres to much stuff to remember so ill type what I can. So, I ported my exhaust manifold finally and it made a WORLD of difference. I wont know how my track times are until I go but I should really help out. I cut some weight out as well by installing a roll pan I was able to shave weight by removing the factory bumper and the factory tow hitch. Im really curious to see how she does at the track and i was SUPPOSE to go the other night but my dumb ass installed new servos without first removing some of the shift pressure and blew out second gear. Now the trucks in the shop and will probably need a complete rebuild so well see.
In other news I just found out that I wont TOTM for July! Cool stuff!
In other news I just found out that I wont TOTM for July! Cool stuff!
Remind me to never win TOTM...don't want to break my truck lol. Congrats man!
Fair point lol.
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I can’t say the same ��. I just had my transmission rebuilt because I’m an idiot. I put in new billet servos and forgot to bring my laptop to lower my transmission shift pressure. I destroyed second gear lol. So I decided while it was in the shop to get a performance rebuild, they wanted $2,900 but that was just out of the budget. So I told them just to do an OE rebuild (which was still pricy at $2400) BUT 2 days later they called me and said they had a surprise for me. They charged me $2,400 but gave me the performance rebuild. The owner and builder said they liked my truck so much they didn’t want to see me with a stock transmission! So now I have Alto red clutches, Kevlar band, upgraded accumulators and stiffer spring and I forgot the other goodies they threw in there but this new transmission is BADASS! It’s also warranted for 18 months / 18000 miles and they said if it breaks on the track it’s still warranted. This place was really stand up and I was thoroughly impressed. The shop was actually AAMCO which I would have never guessed to be this professional and this awesome. So yea, that’s what’s been happening with the truck lately lol.
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