So, this past weekend, we finally got our 2006 hemi quad cab laramie to the drag strip. Amanda was doing the driving and with full street weight (tailgate, jack, spare, random towing junk) and the gas light on, the truck went 15.18 @ 89mph. The track weight on that run was 5304lbs, so using a couple basic hp calculators, that trap speed and ET would give me around right around 300 wheel horsepower. figuring a 20% drivetrain loss, that would be around 375hp at the crank. my only mods are an ebay intake and a diablosport predator with the canned 93 performance tune. this was with a moderate preload on launched.

i absolutely know that the truck has more in it, but traction was shaky. on the second run we pulled the tailgate, spare and took everything out of the truck which i would guess pulled about 200lbs out of the truck, she tried to preload the truck and it just smoldered the tires and once those stock goodyears glaze up, theyre done for. she was in and out of it and even around the thousand foot mark it was still smoking the tires...it was quite a display.

on the last few runs, i put the tailgate back on and dropped the tire pressure down to around 32, and it woudl come off the line, but only at idle. launching at idle allowed her to run a 15.23 but the 60 foot time was much worse than the previous days short time on the 15.18 run.

this was the first time in probably 10 years that ive tried racing a vehicle that didnt have upgraded tires and what a mess. it really makes me appreciate the drag radials on the demon and mirada.

it seemed that the weight that we removed added enough weight to help the traction and when we removed the weight, it wouldnt bite. hopefully at some point, ill have some better tires so that we can launch the truck with some rpm behind it. im sure that it woudl go into the 14s...and the only real mod is the DSP.

 

Oh, one more thing...

There were probably 8 or 9 2nd or 3rd gen rams in our class. We were the fastest of the 4 door trucks and the only post-94 ram that was faster than our truck was a early 3rd gen, RCSB with DRs that ran a 15.08. The other hemi quad cabs were all in the high 15s or low 16s.

 

at Kennedale, there's a fairly regular guy that runs drag radials on his hemi, he's got it tuned up (not sure what with), he leaves just off idle and runs probably in the 7's or 8's (1/4). He runs N/T so nobody really knows for sure.

 

yeah, ive seen some nasty fast built rams but there werent any at the event this weekend...just near-stock trucks. well, i hope that they were all near-stock...

 

i have one of the videos up...

here, the ram is racing against a (hopefully) stock 2010 Challenger with the Rallye Group package...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRxTh...layer_embedded

 

i had a 1965 300 L, 413, rated 360 hp, 727, 3.23 gear, totally stock. E.T. 16.00. most real 300 s 1955-1965, was made by chrysler to run 15.50 to 16.00. it was NOT a mistake. that the speed chrysler wanted them to run.