Ya’ll will probably give me a whole lot of flack for it being a dodge but I couldn’t turn the opportunity down.
Year and a half ago, buddy of mine called me about building a drag truck. Think some of you saw the cage and thread of some of the build on it. Anyhow, he and his business partner had a goal to the fastest diesel in AZ and hit 8 sec. I took him seriously as he’s one of those that when he says something, it’s gunna happen. we finally did that last night in the truck after a complete makeover
We’ve had a total of 3 passes on the truck and on that 3rd pass, we hit a 8.97 at 158.9 mph on our small tune
The very first few passes I was not there as I had other family plans I couldn’t get out of. While there, I got so videos of the hung launching and it was all over the place. Come to find out the shock settings were played with and way off as well as the cal tracks. Was pulling 1.53 60 foots, pulling hard to the wall and would break tires loose on 2nd gear lock up. Best was a 9.7 at 147mph 5780lbs. I set the shocks back where I wanted them and added a bit more preload in the cal tracks, damn near right where it should be pulling a 1.47 60 and we actually added weight to make super street rules (we were 6k with driver in it last night).
I am beyond stoked about this rig! Countless hours are in this truck and it’s literally built by us 3 with hands from a couple other crew members that came on later. We ran one more time but the track had gone to absolute shit (they were not prepping) and we shut down at the 1000ft still running a 9.2 at 151mph.
Few more pics
Video
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1en9RCon6MGi3-BC-1dnIwBhFogZO4IY9
Year and a half ago, buddy of mine called me about building a drag truck. Think some of you saw the cage and thread of some of the build on it. Anyhow, he and his business partner had a goal to the fastest diesel in AZ and hit 8 sec. I took him seriously as he’s one of those that when he says something, it’s gunna happen. we finally did that last night in the truck after a complete makeover
We’ve had a total of 3 passes on the truck and on that 3rd pass, we hit a 8.97 at 158.9 mph on our small tune
The very first few passes I was not there as I had other family plans I couldn’t get out of. While there, I got so videos of the hung launching and it was all over the place. Come to find out the shock settings were played with and way off as well as the cal tracks. Was pulling 1.53 60 foots, pulling hard to the wall and would break tires loose on 2nd gear lock up. Best was a 9.7 at 147mph 5780lbs. I set the shocks back where I wanted them and added a bit more preload in the cal tracks, damn near right where it should be pulling a 1.47 60 and we actually added weight to make super street rules (we were 6k with driver in it last night).
I am beyond stoked about this rig! Countless hours are in this truck and it’s literally built by us 3 with hands from a couple other crew members that came on later. We ran one more time but the track had gone to absolute shit (they were not prepping) and we shut down at the 1000ft still running a 9.2 at 151mph.
Few more pics
Video
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1en9RCon6MGi3-BC-1dnIwBhFogZO4IY9
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