Update on Lightning swap
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For those of you with sensitive ears cover them......
First let me say if you live in Houston and drive a truck don't I repeat DO NOT go to HPE to dyno! !@#$%^!@#$% I was the guinea pig and went first but what the hell i had to get to FFW in baytown and THQ supercross that day.
So as i'm signing papers i ask $35 for 2 pullls or $45 with a/f.....um well... uhhh.... so i'm getting pissed.. turns out there is a guy tuning all day some Monte carlo trying to get the nitrous tuned...
I should have stepped out here but i said what the hay on $35 so they strap me on the dyno and start her up. i have to jump in as they never asked me whay rpm i wanted them to stop at........remember these guys are bowties (vettes,camaros, firebirdes etc) um i guess 5500K so i specify 5200.....third gear WOT.....
so he ******* foots around and ROLLS into the throttle twice and hops out.... @$#%$ I'm only 5'7" 160lb but i'm hot as a 45 and i've got my best man 6'1" everybit of 255lb with me so i'm not worried LOL!! anyway he looks and the computer and says 350/350 sound about right?? !@#%^*#%!@#$%#$^#@$%$ um maybe if i took two freakin plugs out WTF!! I said, you never got into 3rd and you're ******* footing with my truck.... um we can't run your truck in 3rd some bs about top speed... lets see i'm running 4.56 gears Shut the F up!! well i can't go WOT i've see to many toss a DS with the two piece DS! WTF did you even look under my truck (not that you have to bend down or anything) and those traction/ladder bars aren't there for show!@#$%.. sorry thats all we can do... LOOK at the freakin graph WTF who draws that *****!! my 3 year old niece knows more than you do!! so i back off the rollers but the 38"s back on and raise some hell get some people to take their money back. I leave before anyone else straps on and head to FFW. Now that experience (FFW) made my day better but i get a call later from some of the other guys....no ones happy.. #s are all over the board NO 3rd gear pulls NO WOT.. so i'll be heading home in two weeks to my old place and get 3 pulls with A/F in 3rd and WOT!!
Vent off
Man i hate people that take your money and don't even bother talking to you. Disregard the dark black line that LOOKs like a torque graph, that was me trying to show those nimrods what a roots dyno torque graph should look like except they didn't have enough Y graph!! sheesh
Vent off!
First let me say if you live in Houston and drive a truck don't I repeat DO NOT go to HPE to dyno! !@#$%^!@#$% I was the guinea pig and went first but what the hell i had to get to FFW in baytown and THQ supercross that day.
So as i'm signing papers i ask $35 for 2 pullls or $45 with a/f.....um well... uhhh.... so i'm getting pissed.. turns out there is a guy tuning all day some Monte carlo trying to get the nitrous tuned...
I should have stepped out here but i said what the hay on $35 so they strap me on the dyno and start her up. i have to jump in as they never asked me whay rpm i wanted them to stop at........remember these guys are bowties (vettes,camaros, firebirdes etc) um i guess 5500K so i specify 5200.....third gear WOT.....
so he ******* foots around and ROLLS into the throttle twice and hops out.... @$#%$ I'm only 5'7" 160lb but i'm hot as a 45 and i've got my best man 6'1" everybit of 255lb with me so i'm not worried LOL!! anyway he looks and the computer and says 350/350 sound about right?? !@#%^*#%!@#$%#$^#@$%$ um maybe if i took two freakin plugs out WTF!! I said, you never got into 3rd and you're ******* footing with my truck.... um we can't run your truck in 3rd some bs about top speed... lets see i'm running 4.56 gears Shut the F up!! well i can't go WOT i've see to many toss a DS with the two piece DS! WTF did you even look under my truck (not that you have to bend down or anything) and those traction/ladder bars aren't there for show!@#$%.. sorry thats all we can do... LOOK at the freakin graph WTF who draws that *****!! my 3 year old niece knows more than you do!! so i back off the rollers but the 38"s back on and raise some hell get some people to take their money back. I leave before anyone else straps on and head to FFW. Now that experience (FFW) made my day better but i get a call later from some of the other guys....no ones happy.. #s are all over the board NO 3rd gear pulls NO WOT.. so i'll be heading home in two weeks to my old place and get 3 pulls with A/F in 3rd and WOT!!
Vent off
Man i hate people that take your money and don't even bother talking to you. Disregard the dark black line that LOOKs like a torque graph, that was me trying to show those nimrods what a roots dyno torque graph should look like except they didn't have enough Y graph!! sheesh
Vent off!
Last edited by brahmus; May 2, 2005 at 02:07 PM.
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If you just compare your 4x4 tire burning pic and then the dyno graph, you can tell the dyno shop was incompetent and clueless!!!!! 
.....at least you were not out much cash nor did they damage your truck. 
.....at least you were not out much cash nor did they damage your truck.
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ya we joked about it the rest of the day, my "bodyguard" was throwing 350/350 down in every comment!! and with all that we saw at FFW and the supercross i'm sure you can imagine the verbal beating i received! 
But hey hopefully in 2 weeks i'll have some "real" numbers (now i sound like Whipple) and i'll mail it to Horse Power Engineering. you know i could have used their vette as a ramp to change my oil, that would have been fun!! https://www.horsepowerengineering.com/shop/
But hey hopefully in 2 weeks i'll have some "real" numbers (now i sound like Whipple) and i'll mail it to Horse Power Engineering. you know i could have used their vette as a ramp to change my oil, that would have been fun!! https://www.horsepowerengineering.com/shop/