Johnny did what it took to run a solid 9 with his truck. It's not gutted, it could be made streetable very easily, and it's the fastest Gen2 on the planet. People can make excuses all they want.

I always love to hear the remark "I could make anything run a 9 if I wanted to dump the money and time into it." Yea, we'd all have Ferrari's, Porsches, etc. if we could afford them too. If your goal is to go fast, do as much as your wallet will allow. If it's not, sit on the porch and watch.

BTW, I'm sitting on the porch for now. The Cobra's just a street machine.

 

Everyone ****.

 

First off, let me apologize to Chris, it was not my intention to ruffle your feathers. I guess what was lost in translation was that I feel bad for you and I think it might have been wiser to get the nitrous problems figured out and then gradually step up on the tune, nitrous and boost. It just seemed that you went for it right off the bat instead of slowly working your way to your goal and losing time and money in the longrun. No harm or foul intended bud.

Secondly, Jim.....

When I was at JL's shop getting my H/D tuned, I took alot of time looking at JL's Lightning and it is for sure a Lightning with a full dash, carpet, headliner, steering wheel, radio, glovebox and all the other interior pieces you can think of, save the racing seats and console.(your daily drivers have those too), but as for the tubular front end, you are dead wrong. The truck is still full framed, but it does have tubular custom upper and lower control arms. It does not have a tubular chassis. If needed, it could be driven on the street, but it would be limited to small trips because of the fuel cell.

Lets get one thing straight here ok? ALL of your mid 10 second daily driven trucks went 10 on slick and skinnies, at race weight. Not streetable at all in their 10 second configuration. So whats the difference? A Lightning is a Lightning and it just so happens that JL has the fastest GenII so far.

You say you dont care about running a number, but rather have fast daily drivers, but do you remember promising Bill a 9 second on the juice Lightning and a 10 second off the juice Lightning two years ago? It took you 18 months to deliver to him a high 10 second truck, even when you promised him and the community a 9 second truck.

Its all a bash fest here and thats one reason why I stay out of most of this. I had to speak my mind, sorry if I upset anyone but hey its just the internet.

Later...

Bruce

 

 

After reading this, what turned out to be mostly trash talking, thread........all I want to know is whats wrong with Chris' motor so I can learn something from all of this.

Jason

 

Well I can't speak for the rest of the 10 second lightnings, only for myself. When I ran my 10 second runs I drove to the track, put some race fuel in and put the rear slicks on. Thats It

I didn't make any other changes to my truck, I even made the 10 second runs on my street program. The front tires I race on were the same tires I drove to Atlanta with. I still had my rear bumper, tailgate, spare tire, front sway bar, and full interior and weighed 4760 lbs on my 10 second runs.

When I was done racing I put the rear F1's on and drove home.

Like someone said each person has there own goals with there truck. While I applaud Johnny for making his truck light and being the first into the 9's his approach is not for me. I don't care about being the fastest truck, I just want to be one of the fastest daily driven trucks

 

Your talking about an obviously educated Ford technician and Sal...i think they have a somewhat clue of what is going on and knew what they were doing. If someone made a mistake......they happen.......sometimes they are expensive. What can you do. I mean.......didn't he notice the problem on the way home????????? It's not like they strapped on a juice kit with 150 jets........put it on the dyno and let it rip

This is somewhat true. Don ran an 11.2 two weeks ago with slicks and skinnies (if you want to call them that........they are more like regular sized tires).....with his tires, generator, jack, compressor and other crap in the back of his bed........on his street tune We are talking daily driven......10 second vehicles...........which get into race trim to race. They put slicks on so they can hook to the track. Wouldn't be very safe and if you found out these 10 second truck were on street tires, you might get all nervous or something.

Again.....somewhat true you are. Bills truck has run 10's without the juice. He has just recently put the juice on his truck.......and hasnt' really raced much at all. If you haven't noticed, really doesn't post much lately. I'm sure he has other things going on which are much more important rather than proving his truck can run a number that was promised by someone other than him. He is running a mere 100 shot right now to my knowlege and has had traction problems.......which led him to post about ordering a progressive controller. Again, he is running a 100 shot I believe....what was Jim and Sal running for a shot on their mid 10 runs...... 200 or so. Put a 200 shot on Bills truck and get it tuned in and you dont' think it's capable of a 9 pass at some point????

If it was that important to Bill.......he would have set out to prove it.....so he's obviously if not happy, at least content with what he has...........a 10 second pickup truck..........which is more than me or you.

 

 

I said Mid 10 second trucks Don. No offense, but with your JDM dyno numbers, you should have run a mid 10 a long time ago. I am sure you can when you put your truck on a diet

Later...

Bruce

 

Secondly, Jim.....

When I was at JL's shop getting my H/D tuned, I took alot of time looking at JL's Lightning and it is for sure a Lightning with a full dash, carpet, headliner, steering wheel, radio, glovebox and all the other interior pieces you can think of, save the racing seats and console.(your daily drivers have those too), but as for the tubular front end, you are dead wrong. The truck is still full framed, but it does have tubular custom upper and lower control arms. It does not have a tubular chassis. If needed, it could be driven on the street, but it would be limited to small trips because of the fuel cell.

Here's a photo of my so called tubular frame....When we were @ WFC there were a few guys who came up and said they wanted to see my (tubular) front end. when they looked they said just what we thought another lie!.....JL

 

Is this ****ing guy serious?????

I'm sorry guy but you are an *******.....plain and simple.

By the way..........JDM only uses bogus STD corrected numbers remember.........so with Don's real numbers.........he's allowed high 10's rather than mid 10's.......................still running on his street tune

 

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but it is fun isnt it?

 

at least it has stayed somewhat civil.........

 

Quick question?
Why do you guys run street tunes on race gas.......I see that alot, street tunes and race gas

Sorry.....that just kills me

 

For me it's cheap insurance....just in case, reduces my risk of detonation.