Just How Fast Is Your Truck?
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11-18-2005, 02:42 PM
RE: Just How Fast Is Your Truck?
sorry about that, i hit tab then enter and it cut off my post...
anyway, i lost my liscense for 6 mos. because i was clocked doing 128 down a strip of road about 1/2 mile long drag racing this camaro. he was clocked somewhere in the range of 110 and got careless driving instead of drag racing.
you need to take it to a dealer and have them mess with the timing, thats what is holding your engine back and feeling like you have no extra power.
anyway, i lost my liscense for 6 mos. because i was clocked doing 128 down a strip of road about 1/2 mile long drag racing this camaro. he was clocked somewhere in the range of 110 and got careless driving instead of drag racing.
you need to take it to a dealer and have them mess with the timing, thats what is holding your engine back and feeling like you have no extra power.
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11-18-2005, 04:01 PM
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RE: Just How Fast Is Your Truck?
ORIGINAL: hometheaterman
I don't know how you guys got your trucks that fast but they are either seriously modded, or your going down a mile long straightaway, or you bsing. Mine starts swaying around 85 or so but still not too bad it takes forever to acclerate when around 85 also. The 33" MT's and 3" don't help but still I am not at all impressed with this truck in terms of how fast it is.
I don't know how you guys got your trucks that fast but they are either seriously modded, or your going down a mile long straightaway, or you bsing. Mine starts swaying around 85 or so but still not too bad it takes forever to acclerate when around 85 also. The 33" MT's and 3" don't help but still I am not at all impressed with this truck in terms of how fast it is.
BTW, according to the overhead console computer I was still getting 7mpg at 115.
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11-18-2005, 04:32 PM
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I don't know mine isn't that fast but It does have power until it gets to overdrive then it doens't seem to have any. Without OD it redlines it though.
I do have 64k miles on it and haven't done the dist. cap and rotor and inginition wires like I was supposed to at 60k so maybe that has something to do with it but I doubt it as it seems to be running fine.
I do have 64k miles on it and haven't done the dist. cap and rotor and inginition wires like I was supposed to at 60k so maybe that has something to do with it but I doubt it as it seems to be running fine.
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About every 6 weeks or so I take my truck out and run it up to around 115-120 for about 3 miles just to clean it out. After I clean it out it seems to run better and it gets better gas mileage for a few days. My engine and tranny have 245,000 miles on them and I am a firm beleiver to doing this has helped keep my truck alive.
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ORIGINAL: hometheaterman
I don't know mine isn't that fast but It does have power until it gets to overdrive then it doens't seem to have any. Without OD it redlines it though.
I do have 64k miles on it and haven't done the dist. cap and rotor and inginition wires like I was supposed to at 60k so maybe that has something to do with it but I doubt it as it seems to be running fine.
I don't know mine isn't that fast but It does have power until it gets to overdrive then it doens't seem to have any. Without OD it redlines it though.
I do have 64k miles on it and haven't done the dist. cap and rotor and inginition wires like I was supposed to at 60k so maybe that has something to do with it but I doubt it as it seems to be running fine.
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11-19-2005, 04:49 AM
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11-20-2005, 12:12 AM
RE: Just How Fast Is Your Truck?
Back around Easter maybe I got mine up to 90 or so. Real stable, but I came up on another car and had to get out of it. This was on I-95 in North Carolina at about 3:00 AM. PA has spots where you can open it up a little, DE too, MD & VA you really have to watch it, then comes NC: The Hammer Down State! More or less straight, relatively flat, and in the middle of the night pitch black! I've even opened up the wifes mini-van down there.
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