TT5.9mag
Two atmospheres are better than one
Thank you sir.
My search for a shorty D100 is over
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TT5.9mag
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Update time.
While it’s cool to do burnouts rolling down the road at 40mph it certainly does not a fast truck make. So, we have some power, it’s time for some traction before we head to Tucson and try to make passes in this thing. Ordered some 15x8 cop wheels from Wheel Vintiques, and a set of sticky Mickey’s. 275/60-15 ET street SS to be exact. I’m surprised by how well the truck hooks now. The suspension is just stock garbage lowered a bit and it seems to work really well.
While it’s cool to do burnouts rolling down the road at 40mph it certainly does not a fast truck make. So, we have some power, it’s time for some traction before we head to Tucson and try to make passes in this thing. Ordered some 15x8 cop wheels from Wheel Vintiques, and a set of sticky Mickey’s. 275/60-15 ET street SS to be exact. I’m surprised by how well the truck hooks now. The suspension is just stock garbage lowered a bit and it seems to work really well.
oh la la le boeuf!
ya gonna squirt some blue on them hoops to at least give the illusion that it's not packing heat?
ya gonna squirt some blue on them hoops to at least give the illusion that it's not packing heat?
TT5.9mag
Two atmospheres are better than one
Man, you’re quick tonight. Yes those pics were from a day ago. Today I sanded and painted both new wheels to match.
*heart shapes*
The word is hjertebobler
Translated from Norwegian....heart bubbles. That float around your head when you see something.
Kewl.
TT5.9mag
Two atmospheres are better than one
Is that real? Part of me thinks you made that up.
And I’ve been trying to figure out pronunciation for 10 hours now.
You are doubting me?Is that real? Part of me thinks you made that up.
And I’ve been trying to figure out pronunciation for 10 hours now.
Yetababli.
Is about as phonetic as i can get it. 10hrs? ****, I thought I needed things to do..lol
In many of the Scandinavian languages, it is ok to just group nouns together into one huge word.
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Wow, it's been awhile to take time for myself and look in this tread agai, let me invite my Son @MeMikieJr
He is on the move , he found the best solid 88 short bed I ever seen in person, I was amazed when he trailered it home.
Let me find a picture, and I asure you I looked hard to find any rot! This thing must have lived in a garage.
Oh..pictures.. let me see what I got and he posable shared with me, no, I will make sure he takes a look at this great build, and congratulations, you are giving this machine some great love my friend, looking good.
TT5.9mag
Two atmospheres are better than one
That is a great looking truck!
Congrats, you must be tickled with that.plugs look very good.
TT5.9mag
Two atmospheres are better than one
I am happy with how it performed. I think it punched above its weight for sure.
I was skeptical seeing the black paint when I seen it first thing, its a soft silver truck from arigenal factory color, I ain't going to give all the information. And hopefully he starts a builder thread, all the front cap is off, 318 and trans is pulled, he has been thrashing on it on his days off, so proud of him, I will let him tell you his power plant he already has for it, seems like I have missed out on some great restoration threads, time to back read some more, thank you for taking the tome to share with everyone.
This was the post I was looking for, 360 magnum roller I believe, that truck will see many great miles and memories. My next build here will be a magnum 318 looks like.
You have done yourself proud, good job on the van lower control arms and rear end drop, I am still reading.. have a great day
Yep, I switched to an Air gap last ...ah.... June I think, also took the big cam out, 5.16 lift, for got duration but not made for my gears, 2.97 hwy driver, but still ran a 9.15 1/8 last week, first race in years. This engine was in my truck with 3.55 gears. 24 years ago, still a strong motor, it had mybe 3 thousand miles on it, lot of fun track time, very little driving, stored for 24 yeas correctly. La 360 high energy cam now.
TT5.9mag
Two atmospheres are better than one
Made some tuning changes on the nitrous tonight. It was really fat on the N2O on the dyno, like 9:1 afr fat. So I yanked the 55 fuel jet out and stuck the only other one I had in the plate. Now it’s 46 fuel jet and 61 nitrous jet. Picked up @Turbo440Dart and made some street hits (in Mexico of course). It’s much better, AFR hangs out at 11.8-12.2 ish and it pulls HARD on the button. I think it’s ready for duct tape drags at this point. Took a few pics just to show an old truck doin truck things.
Turbo440Dart
crank runner over-er
Awesome Mike
TT5.9mag
Two atmospheres are better than one
So this weekend as some of you know from multiple other threads, we hitched up the trailer to the Ol motor coach and headed to Tucson for the duct tape drags with hopes of making a few passes in the D100 in test and tune, pouring a few hydraulic sandwich’s down the hatch and hangin out with some good friends in perfect weather. Well, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad right? We had a wonderful weekend except for 4am to 11am Saturday morning, (i’ll explain that) and I didn’t get to run the D down the track. Partially my fault and partially out of my control. So Friday we arrive at Tucson dragway about 6pm. I unload and immediately take the D100 through tech, got my sticker and number and went to the lanes. The cars were lined up 4 lanes wide and 1/2 mile long. Some dummy in a coal burner rivered the track with diesel so they closed the track for clean up. End result for me was park truck, help girl make dinner for everyone and drink beer. No pass Friday night. My chick made an incredible carne asada and el pastor taco dinner to which I covered in the hottest hot sauce I could find (last dab pepper X, look that up) and devoured it. The next 3 hours we hung out by the bon fire and got sauced on Rocky Mountain spring water. We headed to bed about 2am. I wake up at 4am convulsing and shivering uncontrollably with my body telling me to evacuate anything inside from any available orifice. Yea it was bad. I threw up until about 11am. I was the only one who ate (later we find out it was expired) the hot sauce and the only one who got sick. No passes for me Saturday morning. I started feeling normal again about 2pm drinking lots of fluids and finally got some food down so I figured I’d suit up and head to the lanes. Fire the truck to warm it up and smell fuel. ****. Pop the hood and the gap of the air gap is now a lake. Front accelerator pump diaphragm is no longer diaphragming. Rip the whole thing apart and search for anyone with parts. Found a guy in the pits selling Holley parts and 10 bucks later we’re in business. No more leaky leaky. Fire it up, head to lanes only to find out they’re closed for the battle of the beaters race, which took the next 4 hours. No test and tune after. That was it, no pass Saturday night. Oh well, I did drive thre truck around the pits a bunch, meet a lot of really awesome people, wrench on a few really fast cars for guys I don’t know that are now friends, and the response to the D100 was overwhelmingly positive. I can’t tell you how many people came to my pit to talk about the truck. It was fantastic. So all in all a great weekend just no drag racing for me. We’ll keep going the duct tape drags as long as they keep having it. It’s an event everyone needs to get to for sure.
Turbo440Dart
crank runner over-er
While I’m bummed you didn’t get to make a pass in it, I’m glad you had a killer time besides the hot sauce incident. Now I’ll force you to go testing on the street when I go, we’ll toss the dragy on the d100 and get a number on it that way.
so no big bamboo for the short wide fridge, but big bampoo-y for turbo mike.
sounds like an epic weekend (minus the evacuation situation). looks like i have a target date to finish up *looks in back yard* uhhh... one of those *gestures broadly*
sounds like an epic weekend (minus the evacuation situation). looks like i have a target date to finish up *looks in back yard* uhhh... one of those *gestures broadly*
TT5.9mag
Two atmospheres are better than one
You know I’ll be there.
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