picked up 15rwhp on a buddies stock '06 z06 though. just an injector change, tune and e85. (15rwhp over the tuned/gasoline #.)
http://www.v8muscle.net/E85dyno.html
http://www.v8muscle.net/E85dyno.html
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Injectors and tune for a lousy 15hp? Add 15hp to a Z06 and you'll be lucky to even feel it.
IIRC, we took our Z06 from 355rwhp to 374rwhp by tuning and a couple of ZipTies. But the ET dropped from 12.4 to 11.9.
31rwhp with injectors and tune over the baseline stock car dyno. since he does his own tuning, his only real cost was the injectors. 31rwhp in a 3,000lb vehicle is noticeable.
look back at the dyno graph link i posted.
bone stock it made 452
with a tune it made 469
with injectors and adjustment to the tune it made 483
parts needed to gain 31rwhp was a set of injectors.
Last time I checked I can pump some #2 @ 2.65 a gallon in the truck and add a tune and nothing else with a hand held and be safe up to around 100 rwhp. I have just alittle work done to my truck and I drive around everyday on a 600 rwhp tune and get 14 to 16 around town and on hwy trip 20 and have seen 23 mpg. Towing are 2001 1500 suburban back to Md from Kc Mo on a 18' full deck trail running around 80 sometimes fast on the same tunes got 17 to 18 mpg.To set the truck up to race all I have to do is unbolt some weight and change the tune.
I have race gassers before I still have one I'm building and there not that much cheaper to build then diesels when you build them the way you want. I have a Bowtie 400 sbc with Brodix Weldtech ported heads and Jesel rocker setup. J&E dish pistons,Lunati Pro Rods and Pro light weight crank shaft all set up for DFI and a big supercharger or atleast 106mm turbo. But like Pat said when your at this point your married to race fuel the E85 will not cut it I will be married to 118+ with my build. Gasser builds are nice and cheap when you build a basic stock block carb motor and put it on the bottle then mix some Marin grade fuel and 94 pump and you hit a 250 shot at it fine.
I have race gassers before I still have one I'm building and there not that much cheaper to build then diesels when you build them the way you want. I have a Bowtie 400 sbc with Brodix Weldtech ported heads and Jesel rocker setup. J&E dish pistons,Lunati Pro Rods and Pro light weight crank shaft all set up for DFI and a big supercharger or atleast 106mm turbo. But like Pat said when your at this point your married to race fuel the E85 will not cut it I will be married to 118+ with my build. Gasser builds are nice and cheap when you build a basic stock block carb motor and put it on the bottle then mix some Marin grade fuel and 94 pump and you hit a 250 shot at it fine.
You will need a built trans a life pump efi live and that will give you around 550 as long as you have a strong cp3
so bout 6 grand? i'll bet that would pull nice.... and i already have efilive... but thats more than i paid for the truck. lol!
i thought this was the fastest srt10 in the world? so much power it flipped?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFH39T0Z0WI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFH39T0Z0WI&feature=related
Why is this even a discussion here???? This iste is comprised of people who have realized that Diesel is the cheap easy way to make power go fast and stay together. I would say 90% of us here have tried to run gasser at the track, I still go and run with my buddy in the 406 Camaroe. I love it but the money that has been sank in this comaroe is pretty substansail, thats why I went with a d-max for my toy, I don't have anywhere near the money these boys here have but if I feel lucky I could most likely cut a very high 12. Granted my tranny will be hurtin but it CAN do it.
And reading your sig you ole t/a is still runnin an LT1 anyone who can get an LT motor to run in the 9's is doing something. Not sayin there not good motors because they are second only to the LS family. So you know your way around a gasser, but you must be lacking in the D-Max department??? Have you loaded a 500+ tune in your LBZ??? I have ran mine over that for goin on 3 years now and never had a hiccup from the motor and only one limp from the tranny. Maybe fix that broken crank ad let that LBZ stretch her legs out a bit.
And reading your sig you ole t/a is still runnin an LT1 anyone who can get an LT motor to run in the 9's is doing something. Not sayin there not good motors because they are second only to the LS family. So you know your way around a gasser, but you must be lacking in the D-Max department??? Have you loaded a 500+ tune in your LBZ??? I have ran mine over that for goin on 3 years now and never had a hiccup from the motor and only one limp from the tranny. Maybe fix that broken crank ad let that LBZ stretch her legs out a bit.
It has less energy per gallon. It "produces" more power because it can be run leaner (if you are still reading afr's in gasoline terms on your wideband... not actually leaner of course). My car sees 200 degree cooler egt's and survived 13.5 gasoline afr's down the track at 26psi when my fuel reg was off) It also allows you to reach MBT (minimum best timing) on boosted or high compression motors that wouldn't normally do it on pump gas. It allows for much more power potential over pump gas, but it does NOT make more power/energy per gallon.
I tuned one that went 9.7's last year, came out this year made 1 shakedown pass so far, went 10.1 @ 112mph shutting down
... my job is easy though because he put a fast XFI on it which is pretty decent to tune with :thumb: Just a local guy here but he knows what he's doing. I can't wait to see how far he can take an LT1!!... He has an F1r on it now, but that won't do it he will be going with a turbo It's too bad there is so much cost/negatives in producing it, it's wonderful stuff to use instead of race gas
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its actually the fastest stock shortblock LT1 in the country. or world?
looking for mid-low 8's with the new cage and forged rotating assembly. still fuel injected using a megasquirt i built myself.
anyways, i love the duramax, but i do not love the price of parts. i would love to put mine at 500rwhp, but i dont think i want to sink all that money into a trans. not feeling lucky after this broke crank.
Trust me no one on this site will tell you they love the price of our parts lol. Do you know how it broke?
no idea. as far as i know, it didnt have a tuner or anything on it. i've seen a bunch of others broken as well. i feel almost like there was some manufacturing defects somewhere along the lines.
You have seen a bunch of broken crannks?????????? Hmmm... That is not very common for any generation under the 500-600 RWHP from what I have seen and read.
Where are they breaking at????
Broken cranks are like cracked pistons. It's a known, but not common factory defect.
It's not just Dmaxes either.
Sorry to hear you broke a crank, but it's unusual (knock on wood).
It's not just Dmaxes either.
Sorry to hear you broke a crank, but it's unusual (knock on wood).
http://www.duramaxdiesels.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23186&highlight=broken+crank
with that many people breaking their crank in that thread on this one forum... i would say thats alot of broke cranks. possibly not as common as cracked pistons, but its not something to ignore for sure. ive been on several other boards for other vehicles around 12 years now. you just dont see people breaking crankshafts that often on a nearly stock engine. ive seen quite a few stock duramax engines with broke cranks.
just like everyone else, my crank broke at the #2 rod journal.
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The trucks in that thread have been subjected to some pretty extreme cylinder pressures, and RPM's more than stock for sure.
Nearly stock for a D-Max is over 600 RWHP. So uhhhh, I would say these cranks are holding decent. I just haven't seen any stock tuning d-maxes around here break cranks. Not sayin it doesn't happen but word travels fast around here there are more D-Maxes here than powerstrokes now working the farms and ranches. And my truck is known pretty well around here EFI decals give it away. Usually at the bars and shops I get the brunt of the Dodge and Ford boys smack talk, and cranks haven't come up...