Was a fun event and like to see some old familiar faces and meet some new ones and put a face with a name. I went down with Rob, he had an interesting time, got the new engine in about 5 days before the event and sheared the TC bolts when he was tuning it on his dyno, got that fixed just before he left for SLC getting there around midnite on Tuesday. The only spare part he brought was an extra serpentine belt. Managed to shear off the TC bolts again on his first and only pull on the dyno. Called Socal Diesel and had them over night ship a new flexplate and Randy's Transmission was gracious enough to allow Rob to use their shop. Reused the TC and they had the truck ready for the drags around 1 pm on thursday.
First pass truck was surging due to the rail pressure cycling, tuning glitch. Rob turned it up and made a 9.7 pass, toward the end of the session he decided to let it eat and completely blew it off on the line, came around and made another attempt and when it hit the big tune and the NOS it almost went into the wall. Made the last pass and ran the 9.49 at 154. That is the fastest mph the truck has even ran. I think the only real difference for these truck at altitude is the ability to spool the turbos and the 60' which seemed very slow for all the trucks. Mashing that thin air and adding NOS makes up for a lot. Rob's truck was by far the easiest to spool of the entire bunch. It would have been a cake walk for him had there been real drag racing.
Put in the T-bars back in, blocks in the back and a hitch bought from a trailer store on Tuesday, added about 2100 lbs of weight. Truck was 8260 lbs for the pulls. Stock front end, no locker, borrowed tires off one the guys who worked for the sled pulling company. Rob made the first pull on the small 1000 hp tune with no NOS and went 245.9 feet. Second pull he decided to use the big tune and nos after he got it rolling good and twisted the drive line at 244 feet. That is the same drive line that has been in the truck since it was bought off of a farmer in Missouri in 2007 with 100,000 miles on it mostly in a field.