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Had a chance to play with my 4wd CCSB Max Tow 6.2 at the drag strip tonight. With horrible conditions (85 degrees and extremely humid) it clicked off a 14.91 @ 93 mph babying it out of the hole. I later tried bringing it up against the brake and launching but it just blew the tires off it. Launching it in 4wd netted a 15.00 @ 91. We got rained out or I would have made more passes. It is bone stock except for a foldacover tonneau and stock size Cooper Zeon LTZ tires.

 

That beats my old LBZ Duramax's best by 3 tenths. It averaged 9.1 mpg towing my 9900lb enclosed race trailer up and back 130 miles along with the 3 passes. Pretty impressive in my opinion.

 

The only complaint I have is the damn truck is too smart and the fact that it can tell the trailer is hooked up (sort of) is a pain when it decides to momentarily loose connection. My lights never flicker but the damn chime kept dinging telling me to check the trailer wiring/trailer connected. Annoying as all get out LOL

 

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Had a chance to play with my 4wd CCSB Max Tow 6.2 at the drag strip tonight. With horrible conditions (85 degrees and extremely humid) it clicked off a 14.91 @ 93 mph babying it out of the hole. I later tried bringing it up against the brake and launching but it just blew the tires off it. Launching it in 4wd netted a 15.00 @ 91. We got rained out or I would have made more passes. It is bone stock except for a foldacover tonneau and stock size Cooper Zeon LTZ tires.

 

That beats my old LBZ Duramax's best by 3 tenths. It averaged 9.1 mpg towing my 9900lb enclosed race trailer up and back 130 miles along with the 3 passes. Pretty impressive in my opinion.

 

The only complaint I have is the damn truck is too smart and the fact that it can tell the trailer is hooked up (sort of) is a pain when it decides to momentarily loose connection. My lights never flicker but the damn chime kept dinging telling me to check the trailer wiring/trailer connected. Annoying as all get out LOL

 

Craig

 

are the trailer lights and brakes grounded to the trailer frame and relies on the trailer tongue being connected to the truck to be grounded? if so I would rewire the trailer to ground the trailer wires to the ground wire in the 7-way. if it is already wired like that then make sure when you push your 7-way in all the way and the cap of the 7-way receptacle will hold in the plug. I am not trying to come off ass a "know it all" just mentioning this incase maybe you over looked it or something. good luck. and post pics of your set up!

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are the trailer lights and brakes grounded to the trailer frame and relies on the trailer tongue being connected to the truck to be grounded? if so I would rewire the trailer to ground the trailer wires to the ground wire in the 7-way. if it is already wired like that then make sure when you push your 7-way in all the way and the cap of the 7-way receptacle will hold in the plug. I am not trying to come off ass a "know it all" just mentioning this incase maybe you over looked it or something. good luck. and post pics of your set up!

It has it's own ground but you may be on to something, as it seems to happen when the trailer weight shifts during turning braking or if the road has expansion joints. It is a pretty high end trailer but it is 6 years old at this point and I did have an issue with one of the LEDs in the license plate light short out(I just cut it out and run with 2 vs 3) I also wondered if the fact that the trailer has all LED lighting could be freaking it out. It also has it's own battery so there may be some weird ground loop issue too. I haven't looked at it yet other than making sure the plug is clean and tight, but I will do a voltage drop on the ground circuit.

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It has it's own ground but you may be on to something, as it seems to happen when the trailer weight shifts during turning braking or if the road has expansion joints. It is a pretty high end trailer but it is 6 years old at this point and I did have an issue with one of the LEDs in the license plate light short out(I just cut it out and run with 2 vs 3) I also wondered if the fact that the trailer has all LED lighting could be freaking it out. It also has it's own battery so there may be some weird ground loop issue too. I haven't looked at it yet other than making sure the plug is clean and tight, but I will do a voltage drop on the ground circuit.

 

that's a good lookin set up you got there.. also try getting some like 300 grit sand paper and sand the ball down a little esp if you leave your hitch on the truck all the time lost 99% of us do to get some of the surface rust off and the trailer can make a good ground connection to it.

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Not too shabby at all.. What do you think the DA was? Also, I've seen where no brake torqueing at all produced the best results for launching. Not sure how you launched it.. It does seem to launch better for mine this way. Haven't brought mine yet but I will when it cools down good and gets below sea level on the DA. :driving:

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that's a good lookin set up you got there.. also try getting some like 300 grit sand paper and sand the ball down a little esp if you leave your hitch on the truck all the time lost 99% of us do to get some of the surface rust off and the trailer can make a good ground connection to it.

The ball is clean and greased and stays in the trailer when not in use. I am an auto tech by trade (I own the shop in the background of the picture) so it shouldn't be too big a deal to figure out.

 

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Not too shabby at all.. What do you think the DA was? Also, I've seen where no brake torqueing at all produced the best results for launching. Not sure how you launched it.. It does seem to launch better for mine this way. Haven't brought mine yet but I will when it cools down good and gets below sea level on the DA. :driving:

Not sure on the DA I was by myself running my car in a heads up class and decided to run the truck in the street class so i never paid much attention to my weather station. It is a cheepo and doesn't do DA anyway. I know my Nova ran a tenth and a half slower than it did the week before when we were at about 2600' Our track is at 1000' elevation so even on a great day the best I have ever seen is about 500' LOL

 

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