Maybe Arnold was chasing them and they didn't want to be terminated! Ha. I crack myself up...

JMC

 

HI!... BROTHERDAVE : I had 4.10 gears installed in my 9.75 rearend about 2 months after I got my truck new. The 3.55's did nothing for me. I had them in the truck on it's 3RD time down the track and ran multable 16.01E.T's. Tire spin, out of the hole was a problem. Worst with the chip but it made up for it in the midrange/top end. Others have gone 15.6E.T's with the same truck as mine bone stock but I guess I got a dud! Since I couldn't go that fast with my 4.10's.

 

I wish, then at least we would have something to shot at. That would be pretty cool. Trying to hit something from the back of a fast moving truck. Stand up and you would go flying out.

31C

 

Hi 31C,

Doesn't sound like a friendly situation!

That must have been a bit hairy - anything bad enough to cause you guys to all pile in & run that fast must have been a real problem - glad to hear you got away from it.

By the way, should you ever find yourself in a *safe* position to top out the truck without anyone in the bed, in the 1999 & newer trucks you can turn the digital odometer into a series of test gauges, one of which is a digital speedometer that *will* read in excess of 100 mph, all the way up to just as fast as the truck will go. You can use the search feature here (the icon is in the upper right portion of your screen here) to retrieve those instructions, it's a simple procedure - just hold down the trip Odo reset button while starting the engine, then let go of it & if you time it right, that turns the digital Odo into a series of test gauges you can select from - by just pushing the trip Odo reset button again and again, you'll cycle thru the different gauge readouts until you get to vehicle speed, so you can then see how fast it really goes.

In order to exceed 98 mph in most of these trucks, you would *have* to have a performance chip/tuning to remove the top speed limiter - the TS limiter is 98 mph on the vast majority of these trucks - there are a few with limiters of 102 or 105 mph, and then a very few with 108 mph limiters - but most have 98 mph limiters. Just FYI................

Have fun & be safe,

 

Thanks for the help, especially with the search button I didn't know about the test gagues, now you'll see me out in the parking lot starting my truck up and turning it off till i get it. Just kidding, but I wont get to try it for a couple days till I get out of the field.

31C

 

You're very welcome, anytime!

 

Neal, is it possible that the 4.10 are helping on the street and hurting you at the track? i know that the track is really prepared for slicks and burnout and that radials dont hook as wheel there as they do on the street. my best times with radial was always driving around the water and just doing a dry burnout.
my car (traction not a problem in my truck) runs best on a soft compound street tire and is actually slower on slicks, hurts the mph, this from a car that 60 foots in the 1.6 range.

if you cant get off of work to go racing every now and then, i would look for a different job, life is too short.

 

HI!... BROTHERDAVE : Actually it's the other way around. The truck hooks really good at my local track when decide to spray down the VHT. See my track won't use the VHT unless there is a event going on there or cars turning 9's or faster. On test and tune day they use NO track prep at all. On the street my truck hooks pretty good on concrete roads, it's the old asphalt roads that give me problems. Since I installed my 2400 stall converter, I had to re-learn how to launch my trucl ALL over again. I pretty much have the set-up down pat now. I'm also running some new GOODYEAR tires on the rear and it seems they are a softer compound than my previous set. I have tried both set-up with using the water box and driving around it. Same results. I'm hoping for a 1.9 60FT next time out with my street tires. In the spring with slicks I'm hoping for at least a 1.8 60FT time. As for work, I like the money working weekends and there's more to life than the dragstrip.