What did you do with your truck/shop today

cobrajet84 · February 23, 2015

After letting the pb blaster sit over night on the bolts for the intermediate steering shaft, nothing budged still. Ugh so annoying, not sure what to do now. On top of that the cable for the fold down single side seat broke so now I gotta replace that. [emoji20]

Edited February 23, 2015 by cobrajet84

4.8guy · February 23, 2015

Went shooting at the riverbar and did some serious off offroading on accident. My approach angles are not that good.

00Silverado4x4 · February 23, 2015

Got gas last night, 12.7mpg on the last tank full. Not too shabby for a 6.0 and a ton of miles driving around town.

sahls01gmc · February 23, 2015

Pretty good! I can get close to that on city miles if I try hard enough. Never got above 14 on the highway though. I think your truck is almost identical to mine.

Edited February 23, 2015 by sahls01gmc

Chris · February 23, 2015

Got gas last night, 12.7mpg on the last tank full. Not too shabby for a 6.0 and a ton of miles driving around town.

Go to 3.42's and all city driving. You can get 13.8

white1500 · February 23, 2015

Go to 3.73's and you can get 11mpg city! lol

15mpg average with mixed spirited city/highway. I think I can get upper teens all highway.

Chris · February 23, 2015

Go to 3.73's and you can get 11mpg city! lol

15mpg average with mixed spirited city/highway. I think I can get upper teens all highway.

6.0 and 3.42's i get about 13.8 all in town and 18-19 on straight highway driving. As soon as I have a load of any kind, highway drops to 15ish. With my future plans I can't use a 4.10. Smaller tires and blower will cause major traction issues

Edited February 23, 2015 by Chris

vettelovralexand · February 23, 2015

If you put the right tire on, you should be able to hook when you need to.

Chris · February 23, 2015

If you put the right tire on, you should be able to hook when you need to.

Blown 6.0 with 3.73 and a 30" 285/35/22 would be a great combo. May go to 3.90.

Goal is to be at the top of 3rd gear when i hit the trap

Edited February 23, 2015 by Chris

vettelovralexand · February 24, 2015

You could go higher than a 3.90 with a 30 inch tire then. That would put you at or under 5k with no converter slip depending on how high you had the boost cranked.

Chris · February 24, 2015

I am just barely drawing up the plans. I need to lower and do the tires first. Then get a baseline with the 3.42 before i start with engine work. I will be using a fairly sticky tire and a roll control system.

Chris · February 24, 2015

Smaller diameter tire will do the same as a lower gear. I will be doing both

vettelovralexand · February 24, 2015

22 inch wheel probably wont give you the sidewall needed to really hook hard. Not to mention they will likely weigh a good amount. What blower you looking at? Planning to do a 4l80 swap?

LongrangeLauber · February 24, 2015

+1 on the 80e swap

Chris · February 24, 2015

22 inch wheel probably wont give you the sidewall needed to really hook hard. Not to mention they will likely weigh a good amount. What blower you looking at? Planning to do a 4l80 swap?

I will probably run a 17" with drag radial at the track. To stay legal it will be a MP112 most likely with meth. And unfortunately i will be doing the 80e swap. It isnt cheap and it is time consuming. But in the end i figure the engine will be somewhere around 500+ HP. The current 60e will probably only take 3 launches beforw it scatters down the road.