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Old Aug 12, 2012 | 07:24 PM
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Hemi all day screw the 4.7
 
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Old Aug 26, 2012 | 01:01 AM
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been thinkin why not a duramax? everyone does the cummins, its like the ls1 of diesels
 
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Old Aug 26, 2012 | 09:42 PM
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Just buy a damn chevy lol that's just stupid
 
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Old Aug 26, 2012 | 10:22 PM
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then buy a hemi truck or a cummins truck or a ls1 car that was made that way, the whole point of a swap is to put a different engine in, not the same one everyone else does. im just saying go for something different. i see guys doin different swaps all the time. its the part of modding thats been lost with technology. best truck to me IMO is a ford with a cummins backed by an allison.
 
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Old Aug 26, 2012 | 10:28 PM
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you run out at kennedale? about 4 miles from my hosue. used to run out there when i had my 79 thunderbird in high school, my buddy would always take his ram 3500 and itd run about what my hemi runs now. tracks only an 1/8th mile tho and so i go to ennis if i ever get the chance. the dirt track races are fun as hell to watch too.
 
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Old Aug 26, 2012 | 10:37 PM
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Hey I'm from ktown! Or where you talking to me? ha I'll answer youre question as if you were my truck would take half a minute down the track, but my 78 firebird 403 can run 13 sec 1/4 according to statistics of other same models as it sits now but I got a 455 swap pre-ordered (in my adhd mind) but as I am a freshman in college, that will be a while. I need to go drag out at the strips sometime.
 

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Old Aug 27, 2012 | 08:06 AM
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ya i was, and im not from kennedale, but im right down the road in mansfield, left there back in 09 after i graduated and then joined the military. ya me and my buddy went there about a year and a half ago after he got back from deployment and threw $6k into his chevy 5.3 and only beat me there by .1 of a second. thats always been pretty funny to me but he does have a higher top end than i do. being in a truck though, doesnt bother me. there at kennedale i think my best time was a 9.1 or so and he was running a 9.0 with 4wd auto on so he never spins. he got a picture on texas motor speedways site when we went out there one night, ended up taking 2nd but lost to a lightning. the picture shows him at a half a truck off the line tho with not spinning at all. my next drag ill be participating in is in houston (baytown). its a 1/4 mile and want to see what she runs down on sea level and with all the last couple modifications that ive done did lately.
 
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Old Aug 28, 2012 | 09:23 AM
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Sound pretty cool man. btw if you ever want to take that mud truck of yours out, I got a great spot, do you know of any in the area?
 
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Old Aug 28, 2012 | 09:55 AM
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ha the hardisty trails is where i always used to go, idk if they still have it open tho. used to be a lady taking pics on the way out because the entrance was a dead end road and the other side went right into the middle of a neighborhood and shed always get pissed about all the mud down her street. ill look and see if i cant find it on google maps for ya. i probably wont be taking that truck up there anytime soon but i know a lot of guys in mansfield mud so anytime your around there, just ask someone with a big truck
 
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Old Aug 28, 2012 | 10:00 AM
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theres the entrance to them marked in blue. its over off cooper and hardisty
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