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J-rod

By J-rod
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J-rod

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Well, fastdrvr23 and I decided to give it another go and see who's truck was faster. A brief explanation: we raced (from a stop light) close to a year ago and I beat him pretty soundly. At the time, I was a month or so into my Wester's 93 hot tune and he had a cat-back exhaust and K&N panel.

 

Read the original story here.

 

However, since then a few additions have been made to each truck. I've switched from a K&N panel filter to an FIPK, and he's got an AC Delco panel filter (took the K&N out to clean it lol ... nice upgrade Will!), but most importantly, he has a shiny new Wester's 93 octane tune.

 

Granted the race scenario was a bit different as we did a rolling start from about 50 mph up to roughly 100 mph before encountering traffic as opposed to the redlight race, but I was quite impressed with how much better his truck performed. I wasn't surprised (I actually expected to loose), but impressed nonetheless. It was pretty much a dead tie as you can see in the pretty videos! :D

 

The smaller version (~ 3.4MB)

 

Or the Big 'un (~ 12.6MB) for those with bandwidth to spare. :loser:

 

PS - The video is cheesy, but it was my first one so I was having fun playing. :D

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fastdrvr23

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What are you talking about, that was all computer generated! lol

 

One small correction, I am running 89 octane in my truck currently, since I am really cheap, and it doesn't ping at all. 93 doesn't "feel" any different though, as my tune is still pretty conservative.

 

J-rod's truck is awesome. The 5.3L makes a big difference with the added torque, and the gears (3.73). It makes for a really strong combo.

 

I guess we need to get someone to video from a dead stop now... *sigh*

It's really easy to see my measly 3.42s at work then. lol

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