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travis

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Dec 5, 2003, 7:41:07 AM12/5/03
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http://www.olypen.com/bulldog/movies.html/F350Run.wmv

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Happy trails!!!
:wq!

c

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Dec 5, 2003, 10:48:40 AM12/5/03
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That's impressive!
Would make quite a street sleeper for those Camaros, Mustangs, Vipers, and
ricers. LOL

Chris


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Kevin Sperle

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Dec 5, 2003, 10:53:08 AM12/5/03
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More fun things to do in a big truck!

*** video borrowed from link in the 7slotgrille.com forums ***

http://www.geocities.com/co_big_cheese/demo3.wmv

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Cherokee-LTD

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Dec 5, 2003, 11:33:15 AM12/5/03
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See what a K&N filter and "Quaker State 4X4" oil can do?
-Brian

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: http://www.olypen.com/bulldog/movies.html/F350Run.wmv

c

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Dec 5, 2003, 11:30:49 AM12/5/03
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All he needs is a fart can on the tailpipe and he'll run 10's. LOL

Chris


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L.W. Hughes III

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Dec 5, 2003, 3:01:39 PM12/5/03
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No, but we see what nitrous and a stock seventeen to one diesel
will do.
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mabar

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Dec 5, 2003, 4:07:45 PM12/5/03
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That IDIOT should be put in jail for that stupid stunt!

Tom

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Joe

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Dec 5, 2003, 4:10:23 PM12/5/03
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Nah, he's shooting for a darwin award...

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mabar

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Dec 5, 2003, 4:20:02 PM12/5/03
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AND.....

somebody should forward that video to his insurance company so they deny his
insurance claim!

Tom

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travis

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Dec 5, 2003, 4:21:35 PM12/5/03
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On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 08:53:08 -0700, "Kevin Sperle"
<ksp...@nospam.hotmail.com> shared the following:

>More fun things to do in a big truck!
>
>*** video borrowed from link in the 7slotgrille.com forums ***
>
>http://www.geocities.com/co_big_cheese/demo3.wmv

Ooh. What an IDIOT. Drunk? Stupid? Both?

Kevin Sperle

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Dec 5, 2003, 4:27:24 PM12/5/03
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> Ooh. What an IDIOT. Drunk? Stupid? Both?

Maybe he was just checking his alignment?

Best guess seems to be that he was imitating this video (at the end)
http://www.uponone.com/videos.php?id=616 where a guy in a firebird surfs
behind his car (holding onto the spoiler). But that guy wears a helmet and
appears to be doing it on a wide open abandoned road. This guy is just an
idiot, and damn lucky he didn't kill anyone. Seeing as nobody got seriously
injured, I have to laugh everytime I watch it, thinking of what he tried to
tell the police and insurance company. Not to mention the fact that he
wrecked his truck!


L.W. Hughes III

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Dec 5, 2003, 4:41:12 PM12/5/03
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I hope it was his truck, it looks like a joy ride to me.
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Kevin Sperle

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Dec 5, 2003, 4:46:34 PM12/5/03
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Yeah, could have been a joy ride. But lets hold out hope it was his truck!
:-)

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KH

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Dec 5, 2003, 5:06:50 PM12/5/03
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> http://www.olypen.com/bulldog/movies.html/F350Run.wmv


Yea, they run those here sometimes. I think they are diesels injected
with propane. Not sure how it's done though.

Keith

Mike Romain

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Dec 5, 2003, 4:56:09 PM12/5/03
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I will second that....

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

L.W. Hughes III

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Dec 5, 2003, 5:15:09 PM12/5/03
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He three.
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DougW

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Dec 5, 2003, 5:42:57 PM12/5/03
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c did pass the time by typing:

> That's impressive!
> Would make quite a street sleeper for those Camaros, Mustangs, Vipers, and
> ricers. LOL

Just going by sound and smoke that was a hevily turbocharged diesel engine.
You can hear it spool up just before launch.

I want to see under the hood of that beast. :)

> "travis" wrote ...
>> http://www.olypen.com/bulldog/movies.html/F350Run.wmv


DougW

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Dec 5, 2003, 5:44:42 PM12/5/03
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KH did pass the time by typing:

> Yea, they run those here sometimes. I think they are diesels injected
> with propane. Not sure how it's done though.

Hmm.. you could do that. Use propane and nitrous as the boost and extra
fuel. That's not going to be a long lived engine though.

I still want to see under that hood.

KH

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Dec 5, 2003, 6:48:51 PM12/5/03
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DougW wrote:

No, they don't last long but that's how they do it. They don't use nitrous
either just the propane I think. They have whole events here racing just
diesel trucks.

--
Keith
98 TJ
86 Mustang GT

c

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Dec 5, 2003, 7:28:13 PM12/5/03
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> c did pass the time by typing:
> > That's impressive!
> > Would make quite a street sleeper for those Camaros, Mustangs, Vipers,
and
> > ricers. LOL
>
> Just going by sound and smoke that was a hevily turbocharged diesel
engine.
> You can hear it spool up just before launch.
>
> I want to see under the hood of that beast. :)
>

It's impressive because considering the weight of that truck, there is some
SERIOUS power under the hood of that thing. They must have wrote a big check
to Gale Banks or someone similar in order to get that truck moving like
that.

I plugged this truck into a drag racing analyzer program that has been VERY
accurate. It has been verified with several known combinations and is
usually within .01-.02 seconds of the actual times these cars run. They
don't have a diesel option, but a vehicle doesnt know what is turning the
driveshaft, so it should be relatively close.

I assumed a 6000# truck and a 200# driver. Obviously the gearing and RPM
will be different for a diesel, but this program calculates net horsepower
required to move a vehicle to a certain speed through the traps. According
to the program, this thing would need 800 horsepower at the peak RPM. Since
I know squat about diesels, I'll assume that the peak RPM would be 4000?
Based on the torque to horsepower formula, this thing makes about 1050
ft-lbs of torque at 4000 RPM.

Very impressive indeed.

Chris

Nathan Otis

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Dec 5, 2003, 11:38:02 PM12/5/03
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I saw this done to a Dodge on "Trucks", a saturday morning show where they
do projects like this sometimes. I think the "Trucks" host got all his stuff
here: http://www.bullydog.com/ Propane injection and nitrous (tranny and
drivetrain work had been completed beforehand). Diesels are built to take
that kind of power, but driving like the guy in the video, it prolly won't
last long.
n.


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Nathan Otis

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Dec 5, 2003, 11:38:51 PM12/5/03
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Matter of fact...
http://www.truckstv.com/schedule/viewShow.asp?show_id=274&show_date=04052003
n.

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Nathan Otis

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Dec 5, 2003, 11:39:52 PM12/5/03
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one more, the truck in question: http://www.bullydog.com/mruniverse.pl
n.

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L.W. Hughes III

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Dec 6, 2003, 1:01:39 AM12/6/03
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It was televised again last weekend, 450 HP to the rear wheels.
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bob zee

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Dec 6, 2003, 10:37:38 AM12/6/03
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"c" <c...@me.org> wrote in message
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>
> I assumed a 6000# truck and a 200# driver. Obviously the gearing and RPM
> will be different for a diesel, but this program calculates net horsepower
> required to move a vehicle to a certain speed through the traps. According
> to the program, this thing would need 800 horsepower at the peak RPM.
Since
> I know squat about diesels, I'll assume that the peak RPM would be 4000?
> Based on the torque to horsepower formula, this thing makes about 1050
> ft-lbs of torque at 4000 RPM.
>
> Very impressive indeed.
>
> Chris
>

you are good! this truck was actually dynoed at 806hp.
8~)>
its a cummins swap! no duramax or powerstroke is 'stout' enough

--
bob z.

"people with less brain power than you are doing more difficult things
everyday"©


c

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Dec 6, 2003, 11:53:28 AM12/6/03
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"bob zee" <cam...@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
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I can't take credit. It was my software that developed the power number, but
I guessed at the vehicle and driver weight. I'm sure they weren't accurate,
but they must have been close. The program actually came up with 804 HP. I
guess it's just another example of how accurate this program really is.

Chris


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