Popup vs Flat Top?

[Tractorsaw1]

Or you can run my slow stock Z.
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I want to hear about the truck in the back ground

 

[tacomatrd98]

LS you say? How about a built 6.0?

Dished pistons?

Yes, I ported the LS6 heads myself

Custom ground cam

Billet Yank converter

Going in

My truck

Are we far enough derailed yet?

I bet that rear end just loves you. lol. I see enough of them with problems with just the 5.3 abusing it. Nice truck BTW.

 

[Termite]

I bet that rear end just loves you. lol. I see enough of them with problems with just the 5.3 abusing it. Nice truck BTW.

Don't ya love those Chevy "10bolts". In a truck no less!!

 

[M&Rtree]

I want to hear about the truck in the back ground

Pops 72 c10 factory 4x4. Has a little 350 with a small .480 lift can. Drives real nice. He uses it mostly to carry his little 10ft jon boat in the bed for close small fishing holes. He did drive it to Daytona a couple months back though. 2 hour drive from our house.

 

[M&Rtree]

What alot of people don't know is Gm put 14 bolts in certain models and you can rob them for when the 10 bolts break. 6 lug and all. 14 and up 1500's have 12 bolt now.

 

[MustangMike]

My 390 & 427 Ford Mustangs were competitive with about anything back in the day that was not tubbed. You had to know how to drive a big block, or you would just go up in smoke, there was not launch control nonsense.

There were no AM heads or stroker kits back then, and if you bought 30 or 60 over pistons, re balancing was very expensive. My short blocks were stock, except that the 427 was a Holman & Moody and the crank had been cut 10 & 20.

We used steel shim head gaskets to kick the compression from 10.5 to 11.0 (Ford sold them along with the plugs for the pollution control, which were intended for using the parts on older cars).

I used a drill & some grinders to ensure the intake and head ports aligned.

All of the engines my brother and I built had Mallory Photo Cell ignition (got rid of the points), TRW double roller timing chains, Holley Double pumper carbs and Hooker headers.

I fine tuned the timing by taking it out on the street and jumping on it in 1st & second, stop, move the dist a little, try it again, stop when I could not get it to feel any stronger.

Before I put the traction bars on the 427 Mustang I got beat by a built 340 Duster, a built 350 Camaro and a 428 in an old Ford coupe. After I put the traction bars on it I never lost a race.

The 390 Mustang was even faster. It is the only car I never lost a race with (I'd race anyone). It beat a bunch of cars including a 440 six pack Superbee with Headers, traction bars and MT tires. Unfortunately, I recked it when I banged second gear and lost control, did a 180, went across the road and split a telephone pole in half. I had 325 gears in that car with a close ratio four speed, so 1st gear took me to 70 MPH (engine at 6800 RPM). It had a soft worn out suspension (I put helper springs in the rear) and it just launched great w/o gears or traction bars. Did not corner, but great wt transfer.

The 427 in the 70 Boss Body was a better all around car, it cornered well and went straight great. I had BFG Radial T/As all around (G-60X15), they were the only wide radial tires you could buy at the time, and BFG raced them. They looked nice on the keystone Mags.

The attached is a scanned pic, don't know how to turn it, sorry!

 

[DeckSetter]

What alot of people don't know is Gm put 14 bolts in certain models and you can rob them for when the 10 bolts break. 6 lug and all. 14 and up 1500's have 12 bolt now.

Never heard that before, that's good to know. Any particular option package that got that?

I had to get a new ring and pinion for my 10 bolt a couple months back. Pinion nut stripped the threads right off the gear. Mine is an 00 z71 5.3 with factory 4.10 axles and the np246 auto 4x4 transfer case.... aka gas hog. It's 2-3mpg worse than my old 4.8 4x4 with the manual shift case and 3.73s.

 

[Hedgerow]

Geeze...
All I got is a pickup...
Wif no funny numbers or anything...

 

[Mastermind]

Same here........it's just an old Chevy......

 

[weedkilla]

You guys don't know nuthin about real power. 990cc of fire breathing grunt.
I reckon when I put the 385 in the tray I double the horsepower.

 

[M&Rtree]

Can't say I've ever seen one of them killa, suzuki?

 

[fordf150]

i want one!

 

[Mastermind]

I'd love to get one of those in the mail.

 

[weedkilla]

Can't say I've ever seen one of them killa, suzuki?

Pretty much, it's actually a maruti. It's a Zook built in India under licence, from the 90's when they wouldn't meet safety/EPA restrictions many places.
Weighs 800kg and with lower crawl gears in the transfer it's pretty amazing for a nearly stock vehicle. (Although appalling over 50mph on tarmac)

 

[Hedgerow]

You guys don't know nuthin about real power. 990cc of fire breathing grunt.
I reckon when I put the 385 in the tray I double the horsepower. View attachment 397125

That thing is cool..
But you couldn't shoe horn my ass into it with grease...

 

[Mastermind]

Yeah.......you are a big rascal.

 

[Hedgerow]

Yeah.......you are a big rascal.

Sorta limits my choices in trucks....

 

[weedkilla]

I can't fit in an original Zook ute, but the maruti is like an "extra cab".
My 6' frame fits and I can squeeze a 346 behind the seats.
Width is a different story!

 

[blsnelling]

I bet that rear end just loves you. lol. I see enough of them with problems with just the 5.3 abusing it. Nice truck BTW.

From what I understand, the weakest length in these 10-bolts is the carrier. I put a Detroit Truetrac in this one with a set of 4:30 gears. Knock on wood, but so far so good and 97K miles.

 

[chris zautner]

here is one of my drag bikes this is a 1983 gs1100e with a 1428 engine put in it with a bored out head running on VP c-12 makes over 200 Hp to the wheel