time slips and money in truck

Twizzler09 said:

Well the truck is getting lowered, 4 inch on front 5 inch on back, and I'm thinking about putting in a custom 4-link rear and running drag slicks....

The fuel tank is already in the rear section of the truck, but I'm switching from the 20.5 gallon tank to probably an 8 gallon fuel cell.

Out of curiosity, why the 3.73? What in your opinion makes it the best choice? I'm still needing some good input here =)

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3.73's will be harder to spin the tires is all. Even then, it's not hard. MIne's got a maybe 300 horse 302 and with the 4 speed and 3.73's it has no problem boiling the hides, but they're only 275 wide street radials.

Yeah, it'd be harder to spin the tires with 3.73's.... but as long as I don't do anything stupid with the gas pedal.... I should be able to keep it from spinning the rears alot on takeoff with the 4.10 or 4.56. Just means I'm gonna hafta practice a bit to get my launches down correctly

hey, first corvettes are not worth the price, ex. local pizza plus owner in town bought new one with 505hp and i've raced him 4 times, first time had radials and no tune(about 20 miles on engine since built ) stayd by him to 60mph smokin tires,< happened twice, so told him soon as get some traction race again , so buddy bought set od mickem et streets that were 28.5 11.50. threw them on it and raced again and from 40mph roll pulled him a car and half till 90 then he passed me like i setting still(then i found out bought the difference that tire height make to your gear ratio. So i killed the et street and borrowed set of 26'' et streets and raced him at 40mph roll and pulled him 3-4 cars to 110mph then he passed me like i was setting still. I am tickled that i pulled him and stayed in front to 110, he couldn't figure why i was smilling after we raced. But im a 1/4 mile racer, he a wide open race type, i've had my range topped at 145 between 6500 and 7000 rpm(really dont know exactly trying to watch were i was going at this speed, and i didn't care for being that fast in my truck.(i tell everyone it like a brick going through the wind,(no aerodynamics at all) .far as gears depend on what u use ya truck for how far u drive it? interstate? mine is c4 with 373 and 60mph is 3000 exactly with 26'' tall tires,Interstate is tolerable barely,3'' flowmasters cut at rearend is loud when u hear it for an hour or two, a 4speed would be close to the same as this a four speed 2nd gear is first in a c4, if u run a 5 speed u can handle 4:10 , I'm swapping my c4 this winter for a tko and some 4:10s i will have a streetfire.net video up in a few of my ranger burning the slicks off. thanks for reading

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIU_vjVBDYDamn purplehaze! I thought I was the only one taking his Ranger up that fast! I had mine up to 240 kmh on a closed road and it felt pretty good. Manual steering has its place LOL. Let me see if I can find the video...

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I just ran mine a full quarter 2 days ago. It ran 13.3 launching and running the same way I did every other time. As far as gears it will depend on how much power you have, how are you planning on racing it and tire size. If you are going above a 30in tire 3.73s aren't going to help you in the quarter unless you have lots of power. I would love to jump down to 4.56s or 4.88s. I have way too much top speed; the truck has done 147mph and still had another gear to go. I'm done finding what kind of speed it will do; it's for the dirt. Time to get some mud on it.

Matt

I had a 85 ranger with a stock windsor in it .040 with a .488 lift cam, 3.40 gears, open differntial, edelbrock 750, C-4 .

Truck ran a 1/8th mile best 8.9 n/a, consistantly 9.1's @72
On a 125 shot sniper kit it ran 8.4s consitanly @ 84 mph crappy 2.2 60'

Total money invested was about 3k

88 ford rangr with 351w 40 over with 544 cam . rpm air gap intake edlebrock 750 factory exhaust manifolds and stock stall. 373 gears 7.5 rear with 26x10 et streets. c4 with manual valve body. truck kept stalling out on kick so i had to roll into throttle. 2.32 60' times 8.0 et at 91 and 92 miles an hour. with a 125 spray.

now i have an 3500 stall and shorty headers and 2 1/2 exhaust . still spraying same shot for now and i havent found out for sure yet but i have been told that i should be going 7.5s or 7.3s in the 8th. hopefuly i will go 6.99 with a boat load more spray.

as far as anyone wanting to do the swap . i loved every minute of my truck. just have a few problems everynow and then with locating parts for it. but it is the easiest vehicle i have ever seen to put a v8 into.

Just under $9K
12.84 @ 102.3 mph in the quarter (floating the valves at 5100 rpm)
New valve springs for next season, expecting 12.3-12.5

351W, 1970 worked over heads (getting replaced by AFR)
hyd roller cam w/roller rockers
750 double pumper & RPM Air gap
Performance Automatic C-4 w/transbrake (havent used t-brake yet)
3500 rpm stall converter

Competition engineering 4-link with coil over shocks
9 inch Ford rear end with 3.89 and traction lock

Dead on consistent, never traction problems.

Lots of variables affect the et.My setup was an 89 shortbed I bought new for 7 grand.85 forged piston roller shortblock,B cam ,edelbrock RPM heads,airgap manifold,750 holley,hooker swap kit,t5 trans,sploder 8.8 with 3.73s.i was running full corner burnersuspension:lowered,stockcar wheels,swaybars and STIFF shocks.Ran 8.55 @ 81 on drag radials.Suspension cost me 1/2 second.Dont wanna think about what the build cost me,but it looked and sounded so badass it was worth every cent.

The intial build cost was $1300.....1976 LTD2 donor carwith a REALLY tired 2bbl 351W, FMX tranny, Mopar 8.75" rear loaded w/ 3.23 SureGrip from a Cordoba(narrowed 15"), and S-10 rear springs. This involved a lot of horse trading and selling what I could from the donor cars. This set up went a dismal 16.2 sec in the 1/4.

Gen 2 consisted up swapping the FMX for a C4 loaded with all kinds of goodies and building the motor w/ WP 2.02/1.60 heads, .030 over KB slugs, Edelbrock intake, Crane roller goodies and Carter AFB 625. This went a best of 14.143 at 95.5mph. Still running the 3.23's and 275/60-15's. I had $400 in the trans plus TCI Convertor and about $2K in the motor.

Gen 3 started four years ago...kid and house came along so all progress stopped. In Sept I started and finished this phase. The upgrades this time were...cam to a .512 lift Crane, fuel cell, batt reloc'd to the bed, Holley Red pump, bigger fuel lines. So it's still through the mani's and 2" pipes which is really slowing it down. With 275/60-15's radials and 3.23's I made one pass less than 12hr's after completing the build and went 13.90@99mph. That's .2 sec and 4mph faster than the gen 2 configuration with no tune time...it ran, rolled and stopped at 1AM so I trailered it and went to bed. After that I let the kid who helped me race it...he was bad...nuff said. I went back to racing the 2000 Bandit 1200S! Added $$ this time was about $1K in parts and misc stuff.

With TP headers, tuning, Air Gap intake and better carb it will rock! Also plan on swapping to 3.55's and 26" ET Streets...both of which are in the garage just waiting to get installed. Should easily push into the very, very low 13's or even high 12's with all the above stuff added. That's about as fast as I want her to go.