well if you're hanging with the Trailblazer SS with that mod list in a QC 4x4 Ram, that gives me hope for my truck. any 1/4 mile times or dyno numbers on that setup?

 

So.... I just talked with a buddy of mine over on the southside. He said what I have shouldbeat any ls3 out of the box even with my weight. I said " it had a ss tag", he said " doesn't matter". Then he said " if that guy were to buy a $50 piece of software and a cable "he will cook your nuts" then I say "what do you mean". He replied that the ls3 has so much torque that gm detuned them for all of thier vehicles exceeding a certain curb weight. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?

 

Soon... as soon as the long tubes and the x are in there. I'll probably dyno at 320 rw. I don't know dood. I prolly ought git down to the woods.

 

That's how I drive our mustang.

 

the trailblazer comes with an ls2 according to chevy and it looks pretty powerful..i hate to say this too but i just had 2007 z71 4x4 for a rental car i had it for a whole week and that thing had some nuts thru the whole rpm range with traction control on it tried to open posi all the time when it was off it would burn tires all day long but was a little scary with that heavy body swinging around corners but on a dead stop itl cook em like a champ oh and it does a "controlled burnout" when doing a brake stand the computer wont let the tires spin above 25 mph so it remains constant at that speed with no problems so you just slowly release the brake until you get the desired length of the burnout and release brake and it will go about 10-15 more feet...the bottom line is i kinda liked a chevy for the first time

 

The SS Trailblazer does indeed come with the LS2 Corvette motor(391hp/395ftlbs torque)- detuned because of the cramped confines of the Trailblazer's doghouse/firewall. There is no LS3 motor, I'm going to assume that was a typo.The SS suffers from a very crappy 4spd tranny, so if you won at all, it's simply because of that alone. The SS is indeed roughly around a 14sec truck, and will hang with a Chrysler 300C/Charger R/T from light to light on both the street and the track.

Are you sure the guy didnt let off? I mean, not to say your wrong, but I'm trying to figure out how your mod list gives you an additional 150-200hp at the wheels....

2000 Dodge Ram 5.9L = 245hp/335ftlbs torque stock.....you subtract the loss at the wheels....and your around 200-210hp.... just to touch the stock SS, you'd need another 150hp at least to even make it an even race. I'm just wondering if there's more to the list of goodies then we're seeing is all.

 

trailblazer ss is deff a sweet ride. the LSx based motors are prob. on of the best modifiny motor ever built. they repsoned well to almost any modification. that trailer blazer ith a corvette tune will prob lay the smack down on most sports car. i should kno i was in a friends 98 ss when he was destroyed by one. take this from a former GM guy, they put the Sport in Sport Utility Vehicle. now all chevy has to do is do that to the SS Silverado

 

they run slower than lightnings, so if you can beat a lightning, you can beat a TB-SS.

 

Yeah he let up after I beat him. I was wondering about the hp ratings as well. If the 391hp is at the flywheel, could it be that AWD yields a higher parasitic loss through the drivetrain? I was told that my setup would consevativelydyno at or around 310 at the rear wheels. More if I put in long tubes- Backorder backorder backorder[:@]I hate that freakin word. Anywho- say on the best of days (recently changed tranny and diff synthetics) I'm at 20% parasitic loss. That should put me at 387.5 flywheel. You don't know how Gm got 391 hp out on Thier Gm motor either.Not to say that DC doesn't do the same thing (ever read about all the dissapointed Hemi guys on dyno day), but the 310 rwhpcame from someone who builds and dynos these motors in these truckson a regular basis.

Pretty sure that 245hp/335ftlbs stockis with:
Stock pcm
Stock tb
Stock injectors
Stock intake
Stock cam
Stock heads
Stock exhaust

You may think I'm crazy for trying tomake a big *** truck go fast na, but I know I am.

 

thats my goal is to make my truck as fast as possible on all motor while still lokking stock under the hood