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17 5.3 ProCharger vs 16 5.3 e85 tune

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7 minutes ago, SILVER SLED said:

That little truck should have a lot of potential.  

 

Have you you ever heard of pure stock muscle car drags?  There’s some muscle cars with no headers, skinny tires and very little allowed internally running 11’s.  They have the event in mid Michigan somewhere.  

http://psmcdr.com/6.html

Just built ranger on the Ford site, 2.3 EcoBoost with a 10 speed, 310hp 350tq stock lol.

I have not. That sounds fun!! I want to go to try and go to the Dream Cruise on Woodward next year.

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11 minutes ago, Gorske said:

Just built ranger on the Ford site, 2.3 EcoBoost with a 10 speed, 310hp 350tq stock lol.

I have not. That sounds fun!! I want to go to try and go to the Dream Cruise on Woodward next year.

The dream cruise is a moving parking lot.  When I had my Trailblazer SS some of us would go up there the weekends prior to the dream cruise and would have a lot of stop light fun.  

 

The pure stock race is mid early September at Mid Michigan Motorplex in Stanton Michigan.  

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3 minutes ago, SILVER SLED said:

The dream cruise is a moving parking lot.  When I had my Trailblazer SS some of us would go up there the weekends prior to the dream cruise and would have a lot of stop light fun.  

 

The pure stock race is mid early September at Mid Michigan Motorplex in Stanton Michigan.  

Might have to go to both next year!

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2 minutes ago, Gorske said:

Might have to go to both next year!

Myself and some others always talk about going to the drags, but something always ends up coming up.  

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3 minutes ago, SILVER SLED said:

Myself and some others always talk about going to the drags, but something always ends up coming up.  

Same with me. I went to the Dream Cruise once 15 years ago and told myself I'd go again... Well it has been 15 years lol.

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16 hours ago, KARNUT said:

GM has been doing things like this for decades. People who do research find these things out. Like making the 5.3 E-85 near the same HP as the 6.2. Reminds me back in high school. A classmate had a 70 Chevelle 454. He thought he was the big dog. Another class mate had a nova. The Chevelle was loaded up with AC the works. The nova was plain, even had dish hub caps. Only a few of us knew he had the same 454. It was his brothers who was in Vietnam he ordered it that way. He got his permission last day of school. It was over before the Chevelle hit second gear. It cost them both 3 day suspension for the start of senior year. The nova friend had his own car that year a super bee. The Chevelle guy started all over again.


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A Nova with a factory 454?. My muscle car knowledge is a little rusty, but that sounds off.

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A Nova with a factory 454?. My muscle car knowledge is a little rusty, but that sounds off.

Baldwin Motion. Dealer installed in New York. It was easy I did one in a 76 nova. It wasn’t that expensive. You could do it with a striped car. The government made them quit after their last corvette, EPA if memory serves. Little New Jersey had two drag strips, drag racing was a big deal in high school. Almost every weekend. I built a budget barracuda. Bought new for 2999$ 318, 3 speed in 1974. I got in the low 14s. Once I did that I saw an unusual hot rod, a Javelin. A 70 Mark Donahue Special. A 390, Hurst 4 speed, function hood scoop. It had air dams, wings etc. l got laugh at in school till the first weekend. I guy that work for my dad had a 72 GTX. He called my javelin a rambler. He would always brag about hot rod mag saying his car was the fastest for 1972. It wasn’t faster than the rambler. My next one was a 66 442. A real sleeper. I could ramble on forever. I was born at the right time.

 

 

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I lived in Warren Mi. and graduated in 1972.

Fun times at Motor City Drag Way, gone now.

My signature highlights this era.

 

:)

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1 hour ago, KARNUT said:

Baldwin Motion. Dealer installed in New York. It was easy I did one in a 76 nova. It wasn’t that expensive. You could do it with a striped car. The government made them quit after their last corvette, EPA if memory serves. Little New Jersey had two drag strips, drag racing was a big deal in high school. Almost every weekend. I built a budget barracuda. Bought new for 2999$ 318, 3 speed in 1974. I got in the low 14s. Once I did that I saw an unusual hot rod, a Javelin. A 70 Mark Donahue Special. A 390, Hurst 4 speed, function hood scoop. It had air dams, wings etc. l got laugh at in school till the first weekend. I guy that work for my dad had a 72 GTX. He called my javelin a rambler. He would always brag about hot rod mag saying his car was the fastest for 1972. It wasn’t faster than the rambler. My next one was a 66 442. A real sleeper. I could ramble on forever. I was born at the right time.

 

 

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Yeah I street raced a 65 GTO a little in the early 90's, had a buddy with a 72 GSX, another buddy with a 71 chevelle.  But it wasn't the peak of the era, for sure.. 

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My uncle had a new 64 Malibu, his brother then bought a new  65 Impala SS 396 425hp.  My uncle with Malibu made those cars faster with dist and carb work.  He like the 65 396 425hp motor so much he bought one over the counter and put it in his 64 Malibu.  My dad (inlaws to those uncles) a 64 GTO....... a lot of stories.........

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On 11/3/2018 at 8:08 PM, Gorske said:

My truck went from the stock 15.21 down to 14.1 with just an e85 tune. It's a nice performance boost for sure.

I'm new to these trucks. Are you saying I have to choose between a tune with e85 or pump gas? Or can I get a tune that handles both? If I had to choose I would do pump gas but if I can do both it would be nice to make those kind of gains. Thanks

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15 hours ago, kevinjohn23 said:

I'm new to these trucks. Are you saying I have to choose between a tune with e85 or pump gas? Or can I get a tune that handles both? If I had to choose I would do pump gas but if I can do both it would be nice to make those kind of gains. Thanks

If your truck is flex fuel and it has the flex fuel sensor it's a two in one tune. The best way to do it is have it tuned for regular gas of your preferred octane and then get it as low as possible almost empty and fill it with e85. Then have your tune dialed in for e85. That way your trucks tune is optimized for both fuel types. Then you can switch back and forth as you please. Just a pain at first being the right way to do it is have it tuned with the two different fuel types at first. Now if you don't have the flex fuel sensor installed or it doesn't have one a regular gas tune is your only option.

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