Well yesterday we had a long way to go before we could load the truck on the trailer let alone drive it under its own power. I started working on it at noon, and another buddy was there at 1pm. Slowly more and more people started showing up and surprisingly actually wanted to help. I went from working on my truck to managing the people working on my truck.
It was late but at 5am this morning It was on the trailer and everything was packed up and ready to go. Got up at 7 and hit the road at 8am. Road construction and a traffic jam made me miss my turn onto I-39 south and I ended up going in a whirlwind trying to get back to it. So we rolled in a little late as always and man is that place one giant cluster-uck. Huge building with tons of pullers and haulers and no parking.
I went to register and do that and my buddies and there buddies went to work getting everything set up. Another buddy had run to tell them that I was here as they were going to line up without me. I drove up to the door shut the truck off and fought the steering wheel as they drug me around inside.
I never did get teched for some reason.
I worked effortlessly talking with tim on the phone on what to alter in my tune to make it pull better only to find out my outdated firmware was still causing issues. with the first puller hooking to the sled(i was 3rd) i quickly downloaded 8.1 so that I could attempt to update my firmware with EFI explorer but again when I went to update it, it froze up, so as the next guy was going down the track i quickly scanned through the tune that was in my truck to fidn out which position i wanted the switch in.
I pulled out, locked everything in and built up some heat to lite the charger then gave her the beans and nothing, i sat there at 1300RPM putsing down the track, i though the turbo just wasnt spooled up and it would come to life but it didnt so I shut it down.
I opted to just be drug back to the starting line again and give it another shot right away. This time I spooled up as usual and then with my foot still holding the brake pinned it but i didnt get over 1300RPM. Note: I still havent moved yet as my foot is on the brake. i started flipping every switch in the cab and turning the DSP5 knob frantically but never could get the RPms to go over 1300, so i just walked it out 37' and let off so I would have a better chance at placing higher if other trucks broke right away which one did, Wesley Kusilek broke the driveshaft on the line.
As it was sitting in the pits I thought maybe my airshutoff had accidentally tripped as the truck will still run somewhat with it closed. But it was still set.
I looked for loose connections but nothing.
I then pulled the codes off which were a P0238(overboost) and P0089 which i believe is low fuel rail pressure but im not positive that is just off the top of my head. I cleared them and waited to be drug out of the building.
Later when we were about to load it up I decided to see if i had my throttle back and I did, it shot straight to 4600RPm when i mashed the throttle. I thought maybe my E-locker wires caused something so I flipped that switch but still had my throttle.
I talked to Tony Burkhard about it but all he came up with was maybe the MAF was screwing things up or maybe my lift pump had shutoff when the e locker was activated due to it getting its keyed power source from the same wire the lift pump does. My buddy did this as a quick job just to get the truck done.
We really dont know what caused it but all of the late nights, money and hard work didnt really pay off in the end. The pull was still pretty fun though, lots of big names there and a very nice track that really bit hard.
It was late but at 5am this morning It was on the trailer and everything was packed up and ready to go. Got up at 7 and hit the road at 8am. Road construction and a traffic jam made me miss my turn onto I-39 south and I ended up going in a whirlwind trying to get back to it. So we rolled in a little late as always and man is that place one giant cluster-uck. Huge building with tons of pullers and haulers and no parking.
I went to register and do that and my buddies and there buddies went to work getting everything set up. Another buddy had run to tell them that I was here as they were going to line up without me. I drove up to the door shut the truck off and fought the steering wheel as they drug me around inside.
I never did get teched for some reason.
I worked effortlessly talking with tim on the phone on what to alter in my tune to make it pull better only to find out my outdated firmware was still causing issues. with the first puller hooking to the sled(i was 3rd) i quickly downloaded 8.1 so that I could attempt to update my firmware with EFI explorer but again when I went to update it, it froze up, so as the next guy was going down the track i quickly scanned through the tune that was in my truck to fidn out which position i wanted the switch in.
I pulled out, locked everything in and built up some heat to lite the charger then gave her the beans and nothing, i sat there at 1300RPM putsing down the track, i though the turbo just wasnt spooled up and it would come to life but it didnt so I shut it down.
I opted to just be drug back to the starting line again and give it another shot right away. This time I spooled up as usual and then with my foot still holding the brake pinned it but i didnt get over 1300RPM. Note: I still havent moved yet as my foot is on the brake. i started flipping every switch in the cab and turning the DSP5 knob frantically but never could get the RPms to go over 1300, so i just walked it out 37' and let off so I would have a better chance at placing higher if other trucks broke right away which one did, Wesley Kusilek broke the driveshaft on the line.
As it was sitting in the pits I thought maybe my airshutoff had accidentally tripped as the truck will still run somewhat with it closed. But it was still set.
I looked for loose connections but nothing.
I then pulled the codes off which were a P0238(overboost) and P0089 which i believe is low fuel rail pressure but im not positive that is just off the top of my head. I cleared them and waited to be drug out of the building.
Later when we were about to load it up I decided to see if i had my throttle back and I did, it shot straight to 4600RPm when i mashed the throttle. I thought maybe my E-locker wires caused something so I flipped that switch but still had my throttle.
I talked to Tony Burkhard about it but all he came up with was maybe the MAF was screwing things up or maybe my lift pump had shutoff when the e locker was activated due to it getting its keyed power source from the same wire the lift pump does. My buddy did this as a quick job just to get the truck done.
We really dont know what caused it but all of the late nights, money and hard work didnt really pay off in the end. The pull was still pretty fun though, lots of big names there and a very nice track that really bit hard.
