New Truck Pics
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Travis, our truck works the best with no weight up frontBelieve it or not
I don't know if you are being serious or not but the times we (we is used loosely here as it is my friend's truck, I just tag along and help with and such) hooked on a track that resembles what I would call "sandy". It was actually a horse rink that had been compacted but didn't stay packed real tight. Anyways, we chose to run with only 300 out front in an 8500 class. The rest was in the bed up at the front. Truck is a cc sb so you can safely assume there was about 700+ in the bed.
Other comparable stock charger Duramaxes were at least 30 feet back and we were running with dodges and other duramaxes that easily had 100-250 MORE rwhp than we had. Anyone heard of RyanU? We beat him at this pull and I attribute it to setup not power. Us: work stock class LBZ them: fire breathing full tilt 2.6 and 2.8 class trucks.
so, I don't know if you are joking or not but running less weight up front worked extremely well on tracks (did this one other time on a similar type track) that I call loose and "sandy" for us up here in KY. I'd be interested to see your results if you all tried it one of your three hooks.
Speaking of 3 hooks... that simply doesn't happen here. Not in a single class anyways. At the most, you get into a pulloff after the first hook and making a full pull. a lot of times they have gone to a floating finish now though so it's a one shot deal and hope you did it right.
It is a fair bit harder on the higher horsepower trucks to run so many times as well so they don't even like pull offs a lot of the times.Enough rambling. shoo my hands hurt.
I don't know if you are being serious or not but the times we (we is used loosely here as it is my friend's truck, I just tag along and help with and such) hooked on a track that resembles what I would call "sandy". It was actually a horse rink that had been compacted but didn't stay packed real tight. Anyways, we chose to run with only 300 out front in an 8500 class. The rest was in the bed up at the front. Truck is a cc sb so you can safely assume there was about 700+ in the bed.
Other comparable stock charger Duramaxes were at least 30 feet back and we were running with dodges and other duramaxes that easily had 100-250 MORE rwhp than we had. Anyone heard of RyanU? We beat him at this pull and I attribute it to setup not power. Us: work stock class LBZ them: fire breathing full tilt 2.6 and 2.8 class trucks.
so, I don't know if you are joking or not but running less weight up front worked extremely well on tracks (did this one other time on a similar type track) that I call loose and "sandy" for us up here in KY. I'd be interested to see your results if you all tried it one of your three hooks.
Speaking of 3 hooks... that simply doesn't happen here. Not in a single class anyways. At the most, you get into a pulloff after the first hook and making a full pull. a lot of times they have gone to a floating finish now though so it's a one shot deal and hope you did it right.
Enough rambling. shoo my hands hurt.
I'm serious my truck works better with my weight on the floor. I only can have 300 because our weight is 8000lbs. We can possibly get 3 hooks. no FP 1st round, FP 2nd round & then pull off. It doesn't usually work like that. Without weight it has been FP 1st round & then pull off
cool, I'm not so crazy after all in thinking "less is more" sometimes on weights out front. thanks for confirming that.
thanks for confirming that.I have done allot of testing & must stop because my driver is complaining about being 2ndcool, I'm not so crazy after all in thinking "less is more" sometimes on weights out front.
I learned a bunch of things & the biggest is my truck likes no weight out front, have no clue why.
I have done allot of testing & must stop because my driver is complaining about being 2nd
IMO, and the reason we decided to try less weight on the front on "sandy" tracks is because the large amount of weight we can hang out front to make weight puts too much weight out front and actually makes you have to push the front along. That's kinda hard to say in a way that might make sense but that was what we thought anyways and the setup worked well for us. If it's the actual reason or not, I guess I don't know for sure but that's my theory.
Bulldozing is what we have called it.